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Wreck lifted and taken to Giulianova

In the morning of July 30 the "Larissa" was lifted onto a crane barge of Mari Ter which was then moored at the north pier of the port of Giulianova. The recovery of the yacht had started at dawn with the sea being calm. The yacht aboard the pontoon barge was transported in pieces and will be disposed of once the judicial authorities have given the go ahead. The Coast Guard has concluded the investigations by the prosecutor delegate Andrea De Feis and will publish the final report shortly. Italian report with photo: http://www.cityrumors.it/notizie-teramo/cronaca-teramo/149473-giulianova-recuperato-lo-yacht-affondato-a-tortoreto.html

Salvage attempt for gutted yacht failed

In the afternoon July 18, 2015, at 5 p.m. the “Larissa” caught fire while enroute from Ancona to Pescara, two miles off the coast of Tortoreto (Teramo) between Giulianova and Tortoreto, near the mouth of the river Salinello, under the eyes of hundreds of tourists and swimmers. The English skipper, three Turkish crew members and five Russians, one with a Canadian passport and six with the Cypriot one, were on board, among them three women and two minors of 12 and 14 years. They were saved and taken to shore with a small motor boat and a banana boat of the Antares Tortoreto Lido which picked them up from the bow while the yacht was increasingly engulfed by flames from the stern. They were accomodated in the Palace Hotel of Tortoreto. Two units of the fire rescue with a dinghy and a water pump and a helicopter a helicopter of the Fire Department of Pescara were sent to tackle the fire as well as the “CP 292” of the Italian Coastguard and a boat of the Red Cross, but the luxury yacht finally sank on a water depth of seven meters in the evening, 2,5 hours after the blaze started in the engine room. The anti-pollution vessel “Monterosa” of the company Castalia-Ecolmare left the port of Giulianova and was sent to the sinking site to try to avoid the dispersion of oily substances in the sea. The wreck was marked with buoys and surrounded by oil booms. The Russian shipowner contracted the company Mari Ter of Ortona to raise the wreck, but it broke in two during the lifting attempt on July 29. The salvage was complicated due to the weakness of the wreck, so that the divers could attach the slings only in the region of the stern propeller and the bow thruster. The salvage operation should now be completed in the late afternoon of July 31. The operation will cost about 40.000 Euro. An investigation into the fire was being coordinated by prosecutor Andrea De Feis. Once the wreck is taken to a yard in the port of Giulianova, a technical investigation will start to find out what happened. Italian reports with photos and videos: http://www.blitzquotidiano.it/cronaca-italia/yacht-larissa-affonda-dopo-incendio-al-largo-tra-giulianova-e-tortoreto-2236937/ http://www.abruzzolive.it/?p=23329 http://www.lameziaoggi.it/cronaca/2015/07/18/imbarcazione-da-turismo-a-fuoco-a-largo-costa-teramo-tutti-salvi/ http://www.emmelle.it/Prima-pagina/Cronaca/Yacht-di-14-metri-a-fuoco-al-largo-di-Tortoreto-8-naufraghi-salvati-col-banana-boat-/11-36510-1.html http://www.pescarawebtv.it/magazine/news/tortoreto-yacht-affondato-scatta-il-piano-di-recupero-919.html http://www.cityrumors.it/notizie-teramo/cronaca-teramo/146877-tortoreto-incendio-yacht-al-via-le-operazioni-di-recupero.html http://www.cityrumors.it/notizie-teramo/cronaca-teramo/149093-tortoreto-yatch-si-spezza-durante-il-recupero-operazione-rinviata-a-domani.html http://ilcentro.gelocal.it/teramo/cronaca/2015/07/18/news/yacht-in-fiamme-al-largo-dell-abruzzo-salvati-otto-naufraghi-tre-sono-bambini-1.11797535 http://certastampa.it/2015/07/20/tortoreto-una-fiammata-e-poi-il-disastro-oggi-verra-sentito-larmatore-nessuno-sversamento-di-gasolio-i-russi-restano-in-hotel-a-disposizione-degli-investigatori/ http://www.pescarapost.it/cronaca/incendio-barca-tortoreto-yacht-affondato-mare-18-luglio-2015-foto/