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• The parbuckling project - update on recently completed operations

  2013-04-22 00:00:00
  

  Below, a list of the main operations recently completed. 438 people currently working at the Giglio's yard Platform 1, 4, 5, 6 positioned Template for platform 3 positioned Grout bags filling activity is continuing, with more than 49% completed Installation of sponson P10 and P11 completed; welding activities in progress The following platforms and vessels are currently involved in operations:

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• First two portside sponsons installed

  2013-04-18 00:00:00
  

  Yesterday, April 17th, the positioning of the first portside sponson (p10) has been succesfully completed. Operations have continued today with installation of the second sponson (p11). Eventually, the sponsons will be welded on the hull of the wreck . At the same time,  drillings for next 10 underwater holes will be undergoing in order to position remaining platforms 2 & 3  Shortly a video featuring the install

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• (update) Platform no. 1, the biggest, has been positioned

  2013-04-03 00:00:00
  

  Work started early this morning on Giglio Island to install platform no. 1, the biggest subsea base which, with the other 5 subsea platforms, will provide a safe supporting structure for the wreck after it is rotated into a vertical position (“parbuckling”, as this is known). At 6 o’clock this morning, the ship Svenja began the approach of barge Micourier with the tug Bucaneer. After cutting the sea fastenings, at about 8.30am work began to position the Svenja’

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• Meeting of the Observatory with citizens of Giglio. First sea bottom platform installed

  2013-02-09 00:00:00
  

  At the periodic meeting of the Observatory with the Giglio community, president Maria Sargentini, accompanied by Costa Crociere managers, Rome La Sapienza University researchers and Titan/Micoperi Consortium experts, updated the local population on recovery operations and described the progress being made on the characterisation of water inside the wreck. During the meeting, it was announced that the first sub-sea platform has already been installed and that the positioning of the sec

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• Digital kit available for download

  2013-01-12 00:00:00
  

  Following the media brief held on Saturday 12 at Giglio Island, Digital press kit are available. www.theparbucklingproject.com/digital_kit.zip www.theparbucklingproject.com/ppt.zip  All photographic and video content in this kit is courtesy of project partners Costa Crociere, Titan Micoperi & Università La Sapienza, Rome.

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• Meeting with Giglio Island population

  2012-12-23 00:00:00
  

  The periodic meeting held with the citizens of Giglio Island took place today to communicate and share the state of progress on work to remove the wreck of the Concordia. This regular meeting ensures that the local community receives prompt and transparent information. During the meeting, which was chaired by Observatory President Maria Sargentini, attendees were given an update on the various activities underway, on futur

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• Concordia wreck: the ship’s funnel will be removed to speed up working for the holdback system

  2012-12-20 00:00:00
  

  At Giglio island work continues without respite, day and night, seven days a week, in order to remove the Concordia wreck. Following the completion of the wreck stabilisation phase (at the beginning of November), Titan/Micoperi Consortium is currently working on the starboard area of the wreck to complete the holdback system, installing additional 8 anchor blocks, which will be operating during the parbuckling rotation phase. In order to speed up supporting vessels’ oper

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• Concordia emergency: Note of The Commissioner

  2012-11-04 00:00:00
  

  The Commissioner for the Concordia Emergency, agreed with the Observatory and Costa Crociere, informs that Titan/Micoperi team has properly managed the oil spillage recently appeared close to the wreck, likely due to recent bad sea. The situation is totally under control and, at present, there is no visible leakage from the wreck and no sign of pollution in the surrounding area.On Friday, 2nd, as soon as individuated the leakage, Titan/Micoperi all emergency procedures were put in place

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• Proseguono i lavori al Giglio: iniziate le attività per preparare il falso fondale, lato mare

  2012-10-22 00:00:00
  

  (Only available in italian)Al Giglio, i lavori continuano senza sosta: attualmente sono circa 400 gli addetti, i tecnici e i sommozzatori che operano nel cantiere giorno e notte, 7 giorni su 7, con circa 20 mezzi navali a supporto. Come annunciato, a fine mese di ottobre sarà completato il sistema di stabilizzazione del relitto, con i primi 4 sistemi di ancoraggio collegati e operativi. Proprio in questi giorni, parallelamente, è iniziata una fase molto delicata

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• PONTOON PIONEER ARRIVED AT GIGLIO ISLAND

  2012-10-22 00:00:00
  

  The Asv Pioneer has arrived at Giglio Island and is now positioned near the wreck of the Costa Concordia. Owned by Scottish group Ferguson Zoom and chartered for six months by the Titan Micoperi Consortium tasked with removing the Concordia, the platform will provide support for work to create a false sea bottom using special grout bags. The 60 double cabins in the platform will provide accommodation for the team of divers who will work day and night to complete work on schedule. The

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• Hyperbaric assistance provided to a scuba diver

  2012-08-31 00:00:00
  

  The Titan-Micoperi divers team provided hyperbaric medical assistance to a scuba diver that had decompression disease after a recreational dive. At 14:13, a rubber tender with 3 men on board approached to the red pier close to the hyperbaric chamber installed by the Titan-Micoperi for hyperbaric emergency response in the work site. Two person on board the tender were screaming for help while the other one was lying down on the deck unconscious. In th

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• Micoperi 30 sets off for Giglio to begin the next phases of the wreck removal

  2012-08-01 00:00:00
  

  Late this afternoon Micoperi 30, one of the largest vessels in the Micoperi fleet, will set sail from the Titan/Micoperi operations base in Ortona for Isola del Giglio, where it will arrive in about 10 days’ time to begin the main stages of the removal operation. Isola del Giglio, 1 August 2012 -Micoperi 30, one of the largest and most important vessels operated by Micoperi (the Italian company awarded the cont

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• Bionomic sea bed map

  2012-07-26 00:00:00
  

  This is one of the key elements in the project designed to protect the priority habitats in the area represented by the Posidonia meadows and coral formations. Characterisation involves the acquisition of geo-referenced information used to produce detailed cartography of the benthonic population in 1:1000 scale. 1:5000 cartography will provide information about the wider area bordering on the project area. Multibeam and Side Scan surveys will be used to characterise the morphology of

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• Last rock part removed from the wreck

  2012-07-20 00:00:00
  

  Last weekend, the Italo-American Titan/Micoperi Consortium completed the removal of the final section of rock wedged in the gash on the left side of the wreck of the Concordia. The operations, which began about a week ago, have now successfully extracted the entire rock, which weighs a total of almost 100 tons and has been temporarily placed on the pontoon “Vincenzo Cosentino”, for subsequent positioning in a safe and protected area, selected jointly with the competent Authorities

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• First rock section removed from the wreck

  2012-07-14 00:00:00
  

  The Italo-American Titan/Micoperi Consortium has removed the first section of rock, weighing over 20 tonnes, wedged in the hull of the Concordia wreck. Over the coming days the entire rock, weighing a total of about 140 tons, will be removed. Work to secure the ship is proceeding on schedule and this phase should be completed by the end of August.

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• Costa Concordia: FINCANTIERI awarded to build the sponsons

  2012-07-03 00:00:00
  

  The contract provides for the construction in different Fincantieri shipyards of 30 steel watertight boxes, which will be used to right and refloat the vessel. Genoa, July 3, 2012 – As part of the salvage plan to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia, to be carried out by the Italo-American Titan-Micoperi consortium appointed by Costa Crociere, Fincantieri has been awarded a contract worth tens of millions of euros for the building of the watertight boxes, known as ca

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• Costa Concordia wreck removal plan presented today in Rome

  2012-05-18 00:00:00
  

  With the Costa Concordia Emergency Commissioner in attendance, Costa Crociere and Titan-Micoperi presented their plan to the international press to remove the wreck in one piece by re-floating and towing it away from the site.   Rome, 18 May 2012 – With the Costa Concordia Emergency Commissioner Franco Gabrielli in attendance, Costa Crociere and Italo-American consortium Titan-Micoperi, the winner of the tender tasked with performing the work, today presented their

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• Costa Concordia wreck removal awarded to Titan Salvage/ Micoperi

  2012-04-21 00:00:00
  

  Wreck to be removed in one piece, refloated and towed away Costa Crociere and the Costa Concordia Emergency Commissioner’s Office have announced that the tender for the removal of the ship from Giglio Island has been awarded to Titan Salvage in partnership with the Italian firm Micoperi. The work will begin in early May subject to final approval from the Italian authorities and is expected to take about 12 months.

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