About 180 to 200 technicians are currently working around and on the Concordia. Part of them are involved in stripping operations, that is the removal of internal structures on the emerged decks of the ship, while the others are working on the actual demolition of the external steel structures and on the restoration of buoyancy of the hull.
Stripping out is currently concentrated on decks 3, 4 and 5 of the ship. As far as demolition is concerned, deck 14 – the upmost – has already been removed and now work is focusing on the decks 12, 11 and 10.
The metal sheets are cut in blocks of variable size and brought ashore to be volumetrically reduced, if necessary, and then transported at the steel plant to be recycled.
Adjustments have been made to the floating system that is now being monitored and managed from the control room repositioned off shore to allow the demolition of the deck 14. Many of the strand jacks used to guarantee stability for the starboard sponsons have been removed, as well as all the upper compartments of the larger sponsons no longer functional considering the progressive lightening of the wreck.
In the coming weeks the first sponsons will be entirely removed.
Environmental monitoring activities are regularly performed in parallel to the technical operations and no critical issues have been registered.
Source and Image Credit: Ship Recycling Consortium
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