(19 Jan 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of vessel coming into northern Italian port of Genoa
2. Mid of Max Iguera, SMIT Salvage manager sitting at his desk
3. Iguera looking at wreck of Concordia on computer screen; pan to screen
4. SOUNDBITE (English), Max Iguera, manager of SMIT Salvage:
"The operation is being prepared inside the port of Giglio island, where the pontoon has been mobilised and is laden with all the salvage equipment to perform the operation. As soon as the local authorities will allow the pontoon to proceed to the site of the salvage operation we will commence."
5. Close computer screen shot of the salvage pontoon deployed in Giglio island
6. SOUNDBITE (English), Max Iguera, manager of SMIT Salvage:
"The vessel is unstable, because of course she is laying on her side and she is not in the position for which the vessel has been built, but according to the latest information the vessel is stopped at the moment, she is not moving. So the operation will go on, of course, only if the vessel remains in the position where it is and she is stable."
7. Mid Iguera at his desk
8. SOUNDBITE (English), Max Iguera, manager of SMIT Salvage:
"The main concern is to remove the 2400 tons of heavy diesel oil and marine diesel oil which are contained in the tanks of the vessel. For what concerns the other eventual minor pollutants - we call them minor versus the 2400 tons of oil - are to be considered at a later stage."
9. Close Smit worker's helmet
10. Mid of comic strip
11. Exterior Costa Crociere (company who owns Concordia cruise ship) head-quarters in Genoa
12. Close of Costa signage
13. Various of ship model
14. Various exteriors of Costa head-quarters
15. Various of Genoa skyline
STORYLINE
From raising the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk to securing drilling platforms wrenched loose by Hurricane Katrina, Dutch companies have a long history of mopping up after maritime disasters.
The Rotterdam-based Smit Salvage has the task of safely pumping the fuel out of the 450 (m) million US dollar Costa Concordia cruise ship now lying half submerged off Italy's rocky Tuscan coast.
"The main concern is to remove the 2400 tons of heavy diesel oil and marine diesel oil which are contained in the tanks of the vessel," said Max Iguera, manager of SMIT Salvage.
It is expected to start pumping half a million gallons of fuel off the stricken ship over the coming days.
"The operation is being prepared inside the port of Giglio island, where the pontoon has been mobilised and is laden with all the salvage equipment to perform the operation. As soon as the local authorities will allow the pontoon to proceed to the site of the salvage operation we will commence," said Iguera on Thursday..
Efforts to find those still missing from the Costa Concordia disaster and to begin pumping out the fuel were temporarily halted Wednesday after the vessel shifted slightly.
However Iguera said on Thursday that while the ship has stopped moving for now it remains very "unstable".
"She is not in the position for which the vessel has been built, but according to the latest information the vessel is stopped at the moment, she is not moving. So the operation will go on, of course, only if the vessel remains in the position where it is and she is stable," he said.
Earlier this week, SMIT officials explained the process of fuel extraction to reporters.
That involves penetrating the ship's 17 heavy fuel tanks and warming the oil, which in the cold becomes thick and viscous.
fuel out and fill the vacuum.
SMIT has not yet won the contract to salvage the wreck.
service in 2006, may never cruise again.
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