Friday, January 2, 2015

Ferry to Brindisi, “perhaps other bodies on board” – ANSA.it

Ferry to Brindisi, "perhaps other bodies on board" – ANSA.it

(Roberta Grassi) (ANSA) – BRINDISI, 2 JAN – Maybe there are other bodies on board, but today it was not possible to enter in the holds and garage destroyed by the flames. It will be the black box to provide useful information to clarify the causes of the disaster at sea of ​​the Atlantic Norman. E ‘was recovered today and placed in a red bag brought down with the fire department ladder truck just before the prosecutor of Bari, Ettore Cardinals, left, after a survey of two hours, the ferry caught fire December 28 to 4:30 off of Vlora and arrived today, still smoking, in the port of Brindisi. It ‘a database in which the investigators will find useful elements to the investigation. In addition to the black box, which will be submitted to the technical assessments unrepeatable, the military of the Harbour delegates investigations have seized all the paper documents found on the ship: “From there – explained pm – we can make ass essments on the loads of the ship.” The first technical assessments were made immediately after the landing of Norman Atlantic in Brindisi: you are not left to spend time before intervening, only that necessary mooring and securing boat whose interior was hot, destroyed by fire that has consumed almost everything and that continued to burn the contents of the holds and the garage during the trailer in Puglia, started at 16.30 yesterday and ended at 15.15 with the docking in Costa Morena North, between the port and outer interior of Brindisi, in front of the castle alfonsino overlooking the stretch of water where usually pass coal, merchant, some cruise ship and one can see the masts of sailboats in the marina. Shortly before 8 a faded image of Norman Atlantic materialized horizon. The three tugs that have ensured the arrival on the Italian coast, as established by the prosecutor in Bari that ordered the seizure of the ship, there were still visible when it appeared the gray shape of the ship on which broke out a fire that caused disaster: 11 confirmed dead, a number of missing and unspecified, “maybe”, as he later told reporters the deputy prosecutor Ettore Cardinals, experienced man of the sea as well as magistrate, other dead look in the belly of the wreck. The maneuvers port access have not been simple: the cable that held hooked the Norman Atlantic to tug Marietta Barretta is broken once again, at the height of the dam Punta Rice marking the arrival at the port of Brindisi. Another tug has come to the rescue of ships engaged in addition to Marietta, also Tenax and Asmara, with the crews and firefighters. Dall’ok all’accosto Costa Morena North, given by the harbor master Mario Valente, docking have spent three hours. Blackened on the sides, the inscription Norman Atlantic Bari corroded by the flames. And the thick smoke that has never ceased to flow from the inside: “We could not access it,” said the prosecutor, explaining that a new survey will be made tomorrow morning. Does not exclude, but rather it is feared, that there are other bodies to count and to extract from the trucks burned, of which would seem to be little left, from what we could see from the hatches. For this night, and for others the Norman Atlantic will remain moored in Brindisi. Then probably will be conducted elsewhere, perhaps in Bari, but only when you will have a better idea of ​​the risks and safety of the wreck as well as on the budget of the sinking. (ANSA).

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