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Raise the Costa Concordia: 12 hours, 500 engineers and 18,000 tonnes of cement... how cruise liner will be lifted in most expensive maritime salvage operation in history
- 114,00-tonne ship sank off the coast of Tuscany in January 2012 and is due to be lifted on Monday
- Cost of raising it off seabed has ballooned to £500m
- Underwater platform has been built on which ship will come to rest as jacks and underwater cables haul it upright
- Divers have pumped 18,000 tonnes of cement into bags below the ship to support it and prevent it from breaking up
- 32 people died when it hit rocks and ran aground off the island of Giglio after an ill-judged 'salute' to inhabitants by the ship’s captain
By NICK ENOCH and HANNAH ROBERTS
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The Costa Concordia will finally be righted next week in the largest and most expensive maritime salvage operation in history.
The cost of lifting the giant cruise liner, which sank off the coast of Tuscany in January 2012, off the sea bed, has ballooned to £500million - a figure that could rise if there are problems, organisers admitted.
Thirty-two people died when the ship, with 4,200 passengers onboard, hit rocks and ran aground off the island of Giglio after an ill-judged 'salute' to inhabitants by the ship’s captain.
The Costa Concordia will finally be righted next week in the largest and most expensive maritime salvage operation in history. Thirty two people died when the ship hit rocks and ran aground off the island of Giglio in January 2012 after an ill-judged 'salute' to inhabitants by the ship's captain
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419071/Costa-Concordia-raised-expensive-maritime-salvage-operation-ever.html#ixzz2ejRi1KXU
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