Rome, 17 feb ( EFE).-the stability of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground in waters of the island of Giglio, January 13 runs in danger because one of the tips of the two rock formations on which it is supported crumbles, by what could precipitate to an I abyss of 60 to 90 metres deep.
The Italian newspaper “Tyrrhenian” today published the video of a submarine recognition of the cruise which now has to be examined by experts, but “causing big concerns about the stability of the vessel, that it seems almost suspended in nothingness”.
The Costa Concordia was wrecked on 13 January in the Tyrrhenian Sea, with 4.229 people aboard, to do a maneuver approaching the island of Giglio and beach in a few pitfalls that opened the hull over 70 meters.
The wreck killed 17 people and 15 disappeared.
After hours of confusion in command and in the work of evacuation, the ship ended up on the shores of the island of Giglio, inclined to starboard on two huge rocks, they prevent you from falling into an abyss of 60 to 90 metres deep and from where are out of fuel extraction tasks.
As it ensures the rotating “Tyrrhenian”, the video shows that “the Colossus crushes a rock which opens a fracture”.
And wondered: “Do occurs under the weight of the spacecraft?.” “O is produced when the ship has impacted?, the answer will give her the geologists”.
The real danger is that the Concordia vire and fall into the abyss, with the consequent environmental catastrophe, that it would be impossible to continue with the removal of the 2,300 tons of crude oil that began the day 12 past.
A tanker ship works in mining of the 2,300 tons of fuel of the Cruiser “Costa Concordia” shipwrecked on January 13 against the Italian island of Giglio Island, on 13 February. EFE/file
