Whats happens next to the cruise ship that sunk off the coast of Italy?

there are waiting to find more victims after that, they will see if the 1000 tonnes of fuel will be able to be extracted without contaminating the water, then they will try and flip it back on the right side, if that fails, they cut the boat into pieces.

as the estimable Girly Brains has pointed out, there is a tremendous amount of expertise available in raising sunken ships...and raising Concordia is actually pretty straight forward. Pump out the fuel.........a tribute to her designers/builders that none has leaked so far Divers seal every opening under water....close port holes ( and yes, the star holes too!) and/ or weld plates over them; weld patches over those two huge gashes in the side, then put some BMF pumps to work . Possibly airbags on the low side as well. Re-float her and tow her to a shipyard, probably Fincateri in Genoa or who ever has a dry dock big enough and not in use. FIx, repair, repaint, probably re-name and she'll be sailing next year. Smit Towing and Salvage is one of the deserving legendary salvors.........this is right up their alley. As a note, I saw the Angelina Laurau, as in the link below, burn herself out to a empty hull and sink to the bottom of St Thomas harbor..our marina salvage and tow boat ended up lashed to the bow of a US Navy destroyer and we played bow thruster as she went alongside Lauarau and tried to put the fire out......no luck......we all pulled back when the paint started peeling off the DDG's bow...... ...salvors brought a Really BMF crane.....of 50,000 tons capacity......out to the Caribbean on a barge from Holland to lift the wreck off the bottom. Patched her up and towed her off towards the Far East to be scrapped; she went down in the Pacific........

If it does not sink altogether then they will still look for the missing people, they are also going to drain the fuel out of the tanks after that if it is not towable to somewhere more private, they will break it up during which time they will empty it of all the furniture and hopefully any bodies that they could not find, sad

All the 'pikeys' in the UK are already heading out of the country with their Transit vans. Give them a couple of weeks and there will be nothing left - if my steel garden gates are anything to go by - only out for 20 minutes & nobody saw a thing!!!

Um.. nobody knows just yet from everything I have seen and heard. AND.. if YOU have a way to 'move' it or right it then you need to tell the experts because they are just as stumped as you are. How the hell can you expect answers to your questions when the EXPERTS DON'T KNOW

Just to say it's not such a silly question. It has been on the news and the internet, how, after they have done their best to find survivors, and taken about 2 weeks to pump out the diesel, they will try to patch and right her using cranes. Since she is so big, putting chains around her will cause further damage to the superstructure but that can't be helped. She may well be fully repaired, renamed and moved somewhere far away from Italy, where she will continue to be a useful cruise liner. Or they may just scrap her. Either way, I'm betting on a good recovery of the ship before the end of February, if the weather allows it.

Once they finish searching for people, they will need to stop the oil and fuel getting into the sea. There are approximately 2,300 tonnes of fuel in the ship's 17 tanks and a Dutch salvage specialist has been hired to pump out the fuel and create a protective barrier around the ship. Otherwise there will be an environmental disaster added to the human disaster we have already seen. It is too early to say how they will secure the ship, because it could slide into deeper water, which would make salvage very difficult. In other cases, salvage experts have used inflatables, cranes, and tugs to bring boats to the surface, but I fear it's going to take years to sort out this mess.

They are still on the sea and rescue mode at the moment , they have to make sure that no-one is still alive onboard and collect the dead. Then it will be time to syphon all the fuel onboard which could take a monthor so. Whoever gets the salvage job , they can decide what they can do safely next. They can either bring in gigantic raising floating cranes to attempt to bring it upright then pump it out and reploat her or just cut it up in situ , but at some 114,000grt , she will be there for months to come whatever happens. I think this is her end.

Far too early to say yet. The first priority is those missing, and the removal of fuel oil. Only when that has been finished one way or another will salvors move in and fully survey her to see what can be done. By then, of course, the damage may have become even worse if bad weather strikes, or she may move into deep water and sink completely.