The locals have also had to adjust their menus and hours of business to accommodate the crews' varied tastes and round-the-clock shifts. Suddenly, Giglio's bars and pizza joints found themselves serving lunch fare at night for the workers who needed packed lunches for their graveyard shift -- and beer at am for the workers who were just coming in off the rigs who wanted an after-work drink. We were set in our ways and then suddenly our little island had to adjust to one of the most diverse populations anywhere in Italy.
Can we go back to how we were before? I don't know how to do that. Brizzi is one of the lucky Giglese whose business boomed when the crews came. She offered up a "lunch to go" service to make packed lunches for the crews to take on site, and allowed Titan Micoperi -- the firm behind the salvage of the Concordia -- to set up a credit system so workers could sign for their meals. And despite being forced to serve bacon and egg baguettes and chicken salad sandwiches with pickles, which she said she has yet to sample, she says she will miss the workers when they go.
I've met people from Samoa, from South Africa, from places I had never heard of," she said, her eyes welling up with tears. And now we will lose them all. They won't come back. The sentiment is echoed along the port, where locals have given the ship nicknames like "the tomb," "the dead whale" and the "astroship.
The Giglese have adamantly refused to capitalize on the crash through tourist trinkets. You won't find t-shirts that say "I got wrecked on Giglio," or even models of the ship. But the island does have two memorials to the 32 victims of the disaster and the Spanish diver who died during the salvage operation. One is a plaque with the victims' names engraved on it affixed to the stone wall of the pier closest to the wreck.
The other is a statue of the Virgin Mary donated by the husband of Maria Grazia Trecarichi, one of the last victims to be found. The statue's neck is adorned with rosaries left by passengers and survivors' families who have come to pay their respects on the island.
Father Lorenzo Pasquotti of the local Catholic church, which was a shelter for hundreds of passengers the night of the accident, has also created a museum in the church that includes life jackets from the ship, hard hats, a piece of rock from the bottom of the cruise liner and a tiny vial of oil from the Concordia's engines, almost like a relic of blood from a saint.
He also keeps a loaf of bread, meant to signify the feeding of the salvage crews, and the crucifix and communion tabernacle from inside the Concordia's chapel. Pasquotti also keeps the cards and letters passengers have written to Giglio to thank the islanders for their help. But Pasquotti's church has scars, too. There is a crack in the apse from the underground drilling to remove the ship, which he says the workers have promised to patch up.
The crews working under the direction of Nick Sloane, the man overseeing the world's biggest ever salvage project, have also been toying with the idea of leaving some sort of memorial made from the implements of salvage. Your opinion can help us make it better. We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. Experts would like to see the heavily-damaged Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia refloated. They say it would be the most cost effective solution, but also the most complicated.
The cruise ship, Costa Concordia, ran aground on rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio a week ago, but what will happen with the wreck in the weeks to come is still unclear. Whether or not it is even possible to get the giant luxury liner afloat again depends on a number of factors. The main problem is closing the meter long gash in the hull of the ship.
There are also countless smaller openings which need to be welded shut. That would be a tremendous challenge, but feasible, he adds. In , when the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Belgium in nine meters of water, listing strongly to one side, it was nevertheless possible to get the ship afloat again.
Engineers at the time drove 16 concrete pylons into the seabed, which the salvage company used to mount huge cranes. The wreck was finally pulled upright and towed off the sandbar. A similar method could be used for the Costa Concordia. A salvage team could ram huge pylons into the seabed on the hull side of the ship and giant straps could pull the ship into an upright position. The Italian captain went back onboard the wreck for the first time since the sinking of the cruise ship on January 13, , as part of his trial for manslaughter and abandoning ship.
The impact on the Scole Rocks occurred at about p. Search and Rescue contacted the ship a few minutes after p. A little more than an hour after impact, the crew began to evacuate the ship. Evacuation was made even more chaotic by the ship listing so far to starboard, making walking inside very difficult and lowering the lifeboats on one side, near to impossible. Making things worse, the crew had dropped the anchor incorrectly, causing the ship to flop over even more dramatically.
Through the confusion, the captain somehow made it into a lifeboat before everyone else had made it off.
Schettino argued that he fell into a lifeboat because of how the ship was listing to one side, but this argument proved unconvincing. Jonathan Danko Kielkowski A dining room that used to feature a fabulous chandelier now lies in muddy disarray. Jonathan Danko Kielkowski A former state room, one of the most expensive on the ship, looks unfit for human habitation. Jonathan Danko Kielkowski The wreck of the Costa Concordia is now moored in a floating dock; the entire right side of the ship is ripped open.
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