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Topic: COSTA CONCORDIA Starboard Fuel Leaking??

DAMBROSI2
First Class Passenger
Member # 35998

posted 05-10-2012 02:18 AM

I'm not always up this late at night, I was watching the CONCORDIA from the Giglio webcam and I'm noticing she's got a leak appearing from the Starboard side, not far from the bridge area, please tell me what you think?

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 05-10-2012 03:11 AM

This same type of 'event' happened several months back and I posted a series of web cam images (taken hours apart) on another critic web site and referenced a day-long time-lapse movie of the wreck site.

I was literally BLASTED out of the water from all sides claiming I was starting a horrible rumor, how dare I assume anything, and if it WERE an oil leak wouldn't it be world wide news already?

Even in the time-lapse video it showed ferries driving through the 'event' several times during the day and the 'event' would swirl around elegantly just like newly added cream in a cup of tea then quickly reform into a solid moving stream heading away from the ship.

MANY lashed out at my ignorance in not recognizing it as:

- 'wind waves' (quote: "that's just the pattern of the wind on the water")
- "wave action of the water from the waves hitting the bow of the ship and then heading on towards the shore."
- "Those discolorations are from the wake of other ships and boats" (seriously???)

Also the fact that it 'just couldn't be oil' because we would see the sun reflecting off of it and a rainbow coloring effect as it shimmers in the water'. Whatever. Not at this distance from the webcam you wouldn't.

In the end I just gave up as we had to 'agree to disagree' but I still think it is something coming from the ship, some type of petroleum product that floats on the surface. Not 'spa oils' as some on the other site claimed coming from barrels of spa supplies.

These pictures from Feb. 11th

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DAMBROSI2
First Class Passenger
Member # 35998

posted 05-10-2012 03:15 AM

Well there's no doubt, that has to be fuel coming out and I think you and I can see that it is and it's not suntan or spa oil.

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timb
First Class Passenger
Member # 5901

posted 05-10-2012 10:22 AM

Everything has already been pumped from the vessel by SMIT salvage. I won't be bold enough to say I definitely know what the phenomenon you are seeing is but often times just a water current can create a line like that. I have to imagine if you had a long shore current with a large object like Concordia in the way it could set up some strange eddys.

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DAMBROSI2
First Class Passenger
Member # 35998

posted 05-10-2012 02:00 PM

Except for the Starboard fuel tanks, they could only get the fuel from the Portside.

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buddhaJoe
First Class Passenger
Member # 4356

posted 05-10-2012 06:57 PM

hi there

you wrote: please tell me what you think?

well here it is... don't worry mate (be happy)

i m sure there will be hundreds of people
monitoring anything which is happening there
from government, environmental groups,
activists, press, the salvagers and so on

best,
b. Joe

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DAMBROSI2
First Class Passenger
Member # 35998

posted 05-10-2012 11:09 PM

Thank you Joe.

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