The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has
been successfully raised from the under-sea platform it has been resting on for
the past year, salvage workers say. The wreck - the target of one of the biggest
maritime salvage operations in history - is now floating about 1m (3ft) off the
platform. In all, the refloating operation is expected to take six or seven
days. The ship will then be towed to its home port, Genoa , where it will be scrapped. BBC; July
14
MS Costa
Concordia was a Concordia-class cruise ship built in 2004 by the Fincantieri's
Sestri Ponente yards in Italy
and operated from 2005 until 2012 by Costa Crociere . She was wrecked off the
coast of Isola del Giglio in Italy
on 13 January 2012. She has been declared a total loss and is being salvaged as
of 2014, following which she will be scrapped.
The Full
Moon of July 12 at Isola del Giglio is shown here. It is prominently placed on
the meridian axis forming a T-square with Uranus-Pluto. The Sun [20cn03] is
conjunct Castor of the Twins [20cn26] and the star nu Puppis, [17cn30] in the
stern of the Argo – the celestial ship. The Twins were Argonauts, voyagers on
the legendary Argo so that in this area
there is something to do with sea and ships.
Uranus-Pluto
is not only associated with technological breakthrough as for example this salvage operation but Pluto is also about
scrap and junkyards where the present form of the ship will be destroyed and regenerated into things
new.
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