{"id":10418,"date":"2013-09-17T00:35:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T00:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/salvage-crews-set-costa-concordia-shipwreck\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T00:35:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T00:35:16","slug":"salvage-crews-set-costa-concordia-shipwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/salvage-crews-set-costa-concordia-shipwreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvage Crews set Costa Concordia Shipwreck Upright"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3575 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/f-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Salvage crews completed raising the wreck of the Costa Concordia in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a 19-hour-long operation on the Italian island of Giglio where the huge cruise liner capsized in January last year.}}<\/p>\n<p>One of the most complex and expensive maritime salvage operations ever attempted saw the 114,500-ton ship pulled upright by a series of huge jacks and cables and set on artificial platforms drilled into the rocky sea bed.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was completed at around 4 a.m. (0200 GMT) without any significant problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ship has been settled onto its platforms,\u201d Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy\u2019s Civil Protection Authority, told reporters and a group of cheering residents who waited up into the early hours of the morning to hear the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have accomplished an important step towards removing the ship from the island,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Concordia, a 290-metre-long (950-foot-long) liner carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew, capsized and sank with the loss of 32 lives on Jan. 13, 2012 after it struck rocks outside Giglio, where it has lain ever since, half-submerged on a rock shelf.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel bore the marks of its long period on the rocks, with brown mud stains scarring the hull and clear signs of deformation to the structure.<\/p>\n<p>After a salvage operation estimated to have cost more than 600 million euros ($801.15 million), the vast hulk will remain in place for some months more while it is stabilised and refloated before being towed away to be broken up for scrap.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cparbuckling\u201d operation, in which the giant hulk was painstakingly rotated upright took longer than the 10-12 hours initially estimated but engineers said the project had gone exceptionally smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Salvage crews completed raising the wreck of the Costa Concordia in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a 19-hour-long operation on the Italian island of Giglio where the huge cruise liner capsized in January last year.}} One of the most complex and expensive maritime salvage operations ever attempted saw the 114,500-ton ship pulled upright 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