Italian rescue boats stationed near the ship (French)
Italian rescue workers resumed on Friday in their search for the missing ship sinking incident affected the Italian "Costa Concordia" amid fears of environmental disaster not seen since the likes of Italy twenty years.
The fire service spokesman Luca Carey has said that rescue workers suspended their search in the Italian ship several hours after budged from its place on Friday, leading to fears of environmental disaster experts have not seen Italy like twenty years ago.
Carey said in announcing the suspension of search operations that rescue teams will be meeting to evaluate the situation and determine the next step, without specifying the amount of shift of the ship.
The rescue teams yesterday caused holes in the ship to allow divers continue to search for the bodies before the weather changed where indicators show the possibility of adverse weather throughout the day.
Environmental disasterExperts fear that Italy is facing the worst environmental disaster in more than twenty years if the leak has 2400 tons of heavy fuel from the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia to contamination of one of the most important marine reserves in the Mediterranean.
After seven days of the coup cruise ship Costa Concordia, with a weight of 114,500 tons, off the Tuscan coast, the wreckage still huge budge on the mass of rock under the water, threatening that flooded more and undermine the plans aimed at emptying the ship of fuel safely.
Said Luigi Karo, chief of emergency in the marine environment of the Italian Agency, a government body, "If the ship Costa Concordia dived over in the water and fuel began leaking into the water, we may need years and tens of millions of euros before we can clean it."
He told Reuters that clean the area, which sank the ship's oil Amoco Milford Haven in 1991, carrying about 144 thousand tons of oil was completed only in 2007, 17 years after the incident and added that the shipwreck Haven is still in the bottom of the sea.
The environment minister said Corrado Clini of the Italian parliament this week that the ship carrying 2380 tons of heavy fuel, diesel and lubricating oil, which is equivalent to load a small oil tanker, but the fuel tanks to the sound now, it seems.
Clini said that even if the fuel leak was contained, may be harmful to animals and plants in the region which is a natural marine reserve have been referred to the net because of its waters and its neighborhoods diverse marine and coral reefs.
And capsized the ship Costa Concordia after slamming into a rock, and is now lying on one side in the water on the pier just twenty meters off the coast of the island of Giglio small, 11 people died in the accident, and did not yet know the fate of 21 others.
Source: Agencies
