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Costa Concordia Embarks On Her Final Voyage

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<h1 class="post-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.625em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1em; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Costa Concordia Embarks On Her Final&nbsp;Voyage</h1><div class="post-meta" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; color: rgb(159, 159, 159);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author posted" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on&nbsp;</span><a data-cke-saved-href="http://cruisemiss.com/2014/07/23/costa-concordia-embarks-on-her-final-voyage/" href="http://cruisemiss.com/2014/07/23/costa-concordia-embarks-on-her-final-voyage/" title="3:12 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">July 23, 2014</a><span class="byline" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;by&nbsp;</span><span class="author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url fn n" data-cke-saved-href="http://cruisemiss.com/author/cruisemiss/" href="http://cruisemiss.com/author/cruisemiss/" title="View all posts by Danielle Fear" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">Danielle Fear</a></span>&nbsp;</div><div class="post-entry" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/76464782_023257048-1.jpg" href="https://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/76464782_023257048-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5778" data-cke-saved-src="http://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/76464782_023257048-1.jpg?w=1210&amp;h=680" src="http://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/76464782_023257048-1.jpg?w=1210&amp;h=680" alt="Costa Concordia Removal" originalw="605" width="605" height="340" originalh="339" src-orig="http://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/76464782_023257048-1.jpg?w=605&amp;h=339" scale="2" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block;"></a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Costa Concordia today embarked on her final voyage, from the island of Giglio to Genoa in northwest Italy. Her towing marks just one accomplishment in one the biggest salvage operations in maritime history.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">The journey, which began shortly before 09:00 local time, includes a 17-man crew aboard the Costa Concordia, more than a dozen accompanying vessels, and two giant tugs that are towing the wreck at just two knots per hour. She is expected to sail 15 miles from Corsica and close to the islands of Elba and Capraia before reaching Genoa late Saturday.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">“This is a big day for Giglio but we’ll only be able to relax once it reaches Genoa”, Nick Sloane, the South African salvage master in charge of the operation, said.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Costa Crociere, estimate the operation to remove the wreck from the reef and tow it for scrapping will cost 1.5bn euros in total.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Surviving passengers who returned to the Tuscan island of Giglio for the final farewell, said they are ready to put the nightmarish experience behind them.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">“We hope that what we’ve kept inside us will depart when the boat departs. And that as it goes on its way, we can finally go on ours,” Anne Decre of the French Survivors’ Collective told AFP, clutching the hand of friend Nicole Servel whose husband died in the disaster.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/v2-concordia-towed-away.jpg" href="https://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/v2-concordia-towed-away.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5780" data-cke-saved-src="http://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/v2-concordia-towed-away.jpg?w=1210&amp;h=908" src="http://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/v2-concordia-towed-away.jpg?w=1210&amp;h=908" alt="costa-concordia-towed-away" width="605" height="453" originalw="605" originalh="453" src-orig="http://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/v2-concordia-towed-away.jpg?w=605&amp;h=453" scale="2" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block;"></a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Costa Concordia is being towed by Dutch- and Vanuatu-flagged boats, while the flotilla carries divers, engineers, a medical team and environmental experts with it.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Sensors attached to the sides of the ship will monitor for possible cracks in the crippled hull, while underwater cameras will watch for debris washing out of the vessel amid fears toxic waste could spill into the sea.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Objects floating free such as suitcases, clothes and furniture will be caught in a huge net while infrared sensors will be used to detect possible oil leaks at night.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Investigators are still looking for the body of Indian waiter Russel Rebello, whose body is the only one not to have been found.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/costaconcordiaconvoy220714.png" href="https://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/costaconcordiaconvoy220714.png" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5781" data-cke-saved-src="http://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/costaconcordiaconvoy220714.png?w=605" src="http://cruisemiss.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/costaconcordiaconvoy220714.png?w=605" alt="Costa Concordia Removal Convoy" originalw="605" width="460" height="582" scale="2" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 5px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block;"></a></p><div><br></div></div>
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