At last the unpleasant sight of pleasure boats for profit touring the area of the Concordia wreckage will stop in Giglio. The Costa Concordia will soon finally reach its spiritual home and resting place in Genoa, but will meet an ungracious end by being sold for scrap. Although many parts will be recycled even for future Cruise Ships and the copper reused among other parts.
Just a couple of weeks ago Technicians were spraying bottles of Prosecco over each other in seemingly inappropriate scenes, with respect to the successful salvage in Giglio. Some 14 vessels shadowed the Concordia in a huge naval armada that sounded sirens, as a red tug boat sprayed 2 enormous jets of water over the mega ship.
When all is said and done in the grand scheme of things, the Concordia saga cannot be viewed as an event to celebrate in any way and it's too soon for the families of those that passed away and the survivors to face underwater scenes of the wreckage on mass TV, how insensitive the media is!
It's time for deep healing without constant Media reminders for the affected families of passengers and Crew and for the employees of Costa to move on with the next generation of operations.
At Off Radar we wish all affected families and loved ones the space to heal and the Corporate staff of Costa along with the entire compliment of Crew fleet-wide the chance to bring closure to this accident, as it's time to learn and move on.
We close by saying that the Concordia experience should be a lesson that the whole Industry can learn from. May no Cruise Line be so arrogant to think it could never happen to them. May we all learn and pro-actively avoid anything like this ever occurring again in the Industry.
