Costa Concordia’s last voyage.

Italie : le Costa Concordia a entamé son dernier voyage

par Mathilde Auvillain mercredi 23 juillet 2014 11:17, mis à jour le mercredi 23 juillet 2014.
Le Costa Concordia vu d'une plage de l'île de Giglio
Le Costa Concordia vu d’une plage de l’île de Giglio © REUTERS | Max Rossi

Deux ans et demi après son naufrage, le paquebot a commencé mercredi matin son ultime voyage des abords de l’île du Giglio vers les chantiers navals de Gênes où il sera démantelé. Le Costa Concordia doit passer à 25 km de la Corse et arriver à Gênes samedi soir ou dimanche matin.

Two and a half years after its sinking, the luxury cruiser started, on Wednesday morning, it’s ultimate voyage from the pontoons off the isle of Giglio towards the naval shipyards of Genoa where it will be dismantled. The Costa Concordia has to pass within 25kms of Corsica and arrive at Genoa on Saturday evening or Sunday morning. 

Les ultimes manœuvres avant le départ du paquebot se sont déroulées mercredi matin devant des centaines de curieux et d’habitants de l’île toscane du Giglio. Perchés sur les jetés, les enfants sur les épaules de leurs parents, certains sur la pointe des pieds, tous ont les yeux rivés sur l’épave qui bouge et qui s’éloigne.

Un frisson d’émotion traverse l’île du Giglio, le Costa Concordia remis à flot quitte l’île trente mois échoué sur les rochers. Sous les applaudissements, salués par les sirènes des bateaux amarrés dans le port, le bateau, le Costa Concordia s’éloigne lentement à l’horizon.  Une page qui se tourne même si l’île ne pourra jamais oublier la nuit du 13 au 14 janvier 2012, la nuit du naufrage.

Le Costa Concordia va passer à 25 km de la Corse

Le navire progresse actuellement à près de deux noeuds” (3,7 km/h), a précisé Sergio Girotto, un des ingénieurs chargés de l’opération de sauvetage du navire sur la chaîne italienne SkyTG24.  Tiré par deux remorqueurs de haute mer, le paquebot est escorté par douze autres embarcations. Il va passer à 25 km de la Corse, près de l’île d’Elbe, et à 10 km de l’île italienne de Capraia, avant son arrivée prévue à Gênes samedi soir ou dimanche matin.

Le trajet de l’île de Giglio à Gênes
Le trajet de l’île de Giglio à Gênes © IDE

 

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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