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A FIERCE STORM has delayed the start of a daring bid to raise upright the Costa Concordia cruise ship which capsized off the coast of Italy in 2012.
Italy’s Civil Protection chief Franco Gabrielli said the storm, which hit Giglio Island early this morning hadn’t been forecast. The storm delayed the positioning close to the shipwreck of a barge carrying a remote control room where engineers will work using pulleys and counterweights to delicately nudge the Concordia free from its rocky seabed perch outside the harbor.
(Engineers will begin raising the stricken ship this morning after a storm delayed plans. Pics: (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Flotation tanks will be attached to the side that is currently under water like the ones already welded to its exposed side. The tanks will then be emptied of water to act as flotation devices before the ship is towed away to be scrapped in a port that is yet to be determined.
The Concordia crashed into a reef in January 2012, killing 32 people. The raising operation was planned to start again at 8 a.m. local time.
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Lad probably fell out a window like all the other deceased Putin critics.
@Pat O’Leary: BBC reported that he fell from the hotel window. Funny how anyone that criticises that Tosspot Putin they end up out a window or end up having heart attacks or strokes.
Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov dies in Indian hotel fall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64101437
The Russian elite must be restless at the moment wondering who is next? It wouldn’t surprise me to see Putin himself take a fall at some stage
Modi a supporter of Putin. Solved.
Advice to Russian Policy Critics: Stay away from windows or people with umbrellas. Just saying….
Obviously a 2 shots in the back of the head suicide
Putin must be getting nervous, what with so many people falling dead, like on the battlefield, out of windows, oops! my car just happened to blow up.. Putin and his ideological regime, must be stopped. They spin lies to their own people to cover their own psychopathic ideals.. “MURDERERS” oops! I must be next, mustn’t get too near a window.. watch the stairs etc.. The West was never a threat to Russia. But Russia under Putin is a pariah and can never be trusted again…
Someone living in a high rise needs to invite Putin over to see their new curtains.
Defenestrations of Odisha!
The body of the recently deceased Sausage Tycoon will be cremated next week.. 5 minutes on each side, it’s what he would have wanted
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