Shipwrecked Concordia declared vertical off Italy


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GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) ? The crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday during a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany, with officials declaring it a "perfect" end to a daring and unprecedented engineering feat.

Shortly after 4 a.m., a foghorn wailed on Giglio Island and the head of Italy's Civil Protection agency, Franco Gabrielli, announced that the ship had reached vertical and that the operation to rotate it ? known in nautical terms as parbuckling ? was complete.

"We completed the parbuckling operation a few minutes ago the way we thought it would happen and the way we hoped it would happen," said Franco Porcellacchia, project manager for the Concordia's owner, Costa Crociere SpA.

"A perfect operation, I must say," with no environmental spill detected so far, he said.

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Those images were really interesting. Seeing the damage and the stark contrast of the water line was really cool. It's pretty amazing they were able to right a ship of that size.

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Pretty sweet, waiting for Discovery Channel or National Geographic show about this. Extreme Engineering or Megastructures or that Engineering Challenges or Big Fixes or something. One of them must have this!

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Pretty sweet, waiting for Discovery Channel or National Geographic show about this. Extreme Engineering or Megastructures or that Engineering Challenges or Big Fixes or something. One of them must have this!

Discovery has one about this on sept 20th, a special show about the raising

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The great achievement aside, if I lived there, I would be annoyed at getting woken up at 4am! Noisy buggers!

 

I haven't thought about it, but you are right. I'd be annoyed as hell. :D

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