{"id":99070,"date":"2014-07-23T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=99070"},"modified":"2014-07-23T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:13:04","slug":"wrecked-costa-concordia-sets-sail-on-final-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=99070","title":{"rendered":"Wrecked Costa Concordia sets sail on final voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cota-concordia-giglio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-99065\" alt=\"cota concordia-giglio\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cota-concordia-giglio.jpg\" width=\"962\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cota-concordia-giglio.jpg 962w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cota-concordia-giglio-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cota-concordia-giglio-467x300.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a>The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship has begun its final voyage.<\/p>\n<p>Salvage crews refloated the ship last week so they can move it from its resting place off Giglio Island to the Italian port of Genoa to be dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, the rusting hulk set off into open waters under tow.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been more than 2\u00bd years since the ship ran aground off Giglio Island with more than 4,200 passengers aboard, killing 32 people in a disaster that drew global attention.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel will be towed &#8212; slowly and carefully &#8212; approximately 240 kilometers (150 miles) to Genoa, where it will be broken up. A convoy of 17 boats will travel along with it.<\/p>\n<p>The ship is expected to arrive in Genoa on Sunday. It&#8217;ll take about two years to dismantle the massive cruise liner.<\/p>\n<p>Since the wreck two years ago, 24 metric tons of debris &#8212; including furniture, dishes, food, personal effects and ship parts &#8212; have been recovered from the seabed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship has begun its final voyage. Salvage crews refloated the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}