Costa Concordia salvage to begin

The Costa Concodia is currently trapped in front of the Isola del Giglio

As the fatal event of the Costa Concordia hitting a rock in front of the Tuscan Coast, Italy, the chances of finding one of the about 24 missing people are getting lower and lower. This is why it is likely that the responsible rescue troupes will declare today or tomorrow that they will end their efforts to find those passengers and crew members in the vessel. 


From this point on salvage workers will start their examinations of the vessel and among them, a specialist group from the Netherlands (SMIT) is to start drilling through the ship towards the 17 tanks that hold more than 2,000 tonnes of fuel. Fortunately for now experts have claimed, that there is a pretty good chance that those tanks haven't been damaged and therefor this Dutch group of salvage specialists should be able to keep the situation under control.
Nevertheless the operation of pumping the fuel out of the tanks could take several weeks.


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