Timelapse of Costa Concordia ship rescue of Italian coast

The Costa Concordia, the gigantic cruise on January 13, 2012 wrecked killing 32 people, and is straightened after an unprecedented engineering operation that lasted 19 hours, but now the problem is how to be refloated and where you will be transferred for scrapping. With the touch of sirens, at 04.00 in the morning Italian time (02.00 GMT) it was announced that the operation had been a success, although it lasted a few hours longer than planned. The mass of 44,600 tons, 290 meters long and 17 stories high and rests upright on the submarine platform that had been built the previous months. The so-called "parbuckling", the technical term is known in straightening this operation had been launched by the American Society Italian Titan Salvage and Micoperi, employed 500 people and had a cost of 600 million euros for the shipping company Costa Cruises, which owns the Costa Concordia.

• 2013-09-17T19:09:37+00:00
• Duration: 01:23

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