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Costa Concordia Finally Raised
Eighteen months, $800 million and a 114,000-ton cruise ship later, salvage crews have finally raised the ex-Costa Concordia off the Italian coast.
The doomed vessel ran aground in January 2012, in the process partially sinking the Concordia and killing dozens of passengers. Months of planning went into engineering the groundbreaking technique to right the ship, involving a 500-member salvage crew from 26 countries.
The extreme cost and scale of the operation aimed at minimizing the already significant environmental impact.
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