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Experts have said it would take 28 days to remove fuel from 15 tanks accounting for more than 80 per cent of all fuel on board the ship. The next job would be to target the engine room, which contains nearly 350 cubic metres of diesel, fuel and other lubricants, Mr Gabrielli said.
Only once the fuel is removed can work begin on removing the ship, either floating it in one piece or cutting it up and towing it away as a wreck. Costa has begun the process for taking bids for the recovery operation, a process that will take two months.

The oil removal operation is further postponed because of bad weather.

The estimate for how long it might take to remove the ship from its current site is 7-10 months.

Of the bodies recovered from in and around the wreck, only one male body remains unidentified. There is speculation that he might not have been on the crew or passenger lists.

Charley Noble