The largest salvage operations in history

After twenty months of planing, yesterday, successfully ended one of the largest salvage operations in history, that lasted 19 hours, on the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, which smashed into a small Italian island. Watch the video time-lapse…

The ship capsized in January 2012, killing 32 people.

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Franco Porcellacchia, a representative of the ship’s owners, Costa Crociere, said: “We completed the parbuckling operation a few minutes ago the way we thought it would happen and the way we hoped it would happen.”

Time-lapse footage shows the Costa Concordia being uprighted off the coast of Tuscany.

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