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Costa Concordia cruise ship was refloated
Posted On 14 Jul 2014
The Costa Concordia cruise ship floated again today for the first time since its shipwreck on January 13, 2012 off the Tuscan island of Giglio, in a tragedy that left 32 dead.
The 290 meters length cruise was refloated in a wide operation to be transferred to a scrapping in Genoa, in northwestern Italy.
“The boat is floating. Is one meter above the bottom,” announced at a press conference Porcellacchia Franco, one of the engineers responsible for the refloating operation. The cruise will need one more meter to be displaced.
Refloating operations began at 6 (European time) and at the first phase the boat came off underwater artificial platforms on which remained supported by large metal containers.