Costa Concordia Shipwreck, a press-ferry.

I don't know if this is the most beautiful panorama I've taken in the last twenty years, but it was certainly the most important professional challenge of my career as a Panographer.
You all know what happened on the island of Giglio in 2012: due to an idiotic maneuvering by the captain, the cruise ship went too close to the island and sank a few tens of meters from the coast.
It was the night of January 14, 2012.
The evening of the next day I receive a phone call from Jürgen Schrader, who was collaborating with Der Spiegel, and offers me to publish a series of panoramas on Spiegel-online.
The next day I tried to organize myself, I had excellent connections at the Argentario, but I discover that the only way to get closer to the scene was to take the ferry from Porto Santo Stefano to Giglio Porto. All private boats were prohibited, but also private helicopters, which I couldn't afford anyway.
I board the ferry with hundreds of photographers, cameraman and journalists.
A press-ferry.
With the camera mounted on a pole and a fisheye, I had to wait to get as close as possible to the ship.
The ferry was going fast, six, seven shots in few seconds was all I could afford.
It was quite cold, and I imagine the suffering of the castaways the night before.
Some rescue boats were still on the wrecked ship, lowered from the wrong side.
When I return, I spend hours stitching the panoramas and resolving all the imperfections caused by the movement of the ferry at sea.
But it works!
The next day I return and take some other panoramic shots from the ground without unfortunately being able to get closer... like most of my fellow photographers, who were shooting with big telephoto lenses.
In reality, what I documented was the entire media circus buzzing about this enormous tragedy.
A press-ferry.
Just now, I enlarged a little bit the size of the panorama and corrected the nadir (actually a small black circle), using photoshop's AI.

Europe / Italy

Lat: 42° 21' 52.423" N
Long: 10° 55' 24.094" E

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Precision is: Medium. Nearby, but not to the last decimal.

Nikon D700, nikon 10,5mm shaved, pole.