Fuel removal resumes on Italy cruise ship
By The Associated Press
This article was published February 12, 2012 at 10:55 a.m.
PHOTO BY PAOLO FANCIULLI / AP
Snow covers the rooftops of the houses overlooking the harbor of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, as the Costa Concordia cruise liner remains grounded. The Concordia ran aground on Jan. 13 after the captain deviated from his planned route and gashed the hull of the ship on a submerged reef.
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ROME — Authorities in Italy said pumping operations have begun to remove some of the 500,000 gallons of fuel aboard the cruise ship that ran aground off Tuscany.
The civil protection department said the fuel extraction operation started Sunday afternoon nearly a month after the Costa Concordia slammed into a reef and capsized off the tiny island of Giglio.
Plans to empty the Concordia’s fuel tanks were delayed first by the search and rescue operation and then by nearly two weeks of bad weather. A fuel leak would be disastrous for the waters around Giglio, which are part of a protected maritime sanctuary.
Seventeen people died in the Jan. 13 grounding and 15 are presumed dead.
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