Costa Concordia Upright
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![A bird stands in front of the Costa Concordia ship as it lies on its side on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, September 15, 2013. Authorities have given the final go-ahead for a daring attempt Monday to pull upright the crippled Costa Concordia cruise liner from its side in the waters off Tuscany, a make-or-break engineering feat that has never before been tried in such conditions. The ship capsized there 20 months ago, and Italy's national Civil Protection agency waited until sea and weather conditions were forecast for dawn Monday before giving the OK to try to right it. In a statement Sunday, the Civil Protection agency said the sea and wind conditions [fall within the range of operating feasibility]. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fd87_big.jpg "A bird stands in front of the Costa Concordia ship as it lies on its side on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, September 15, 2013. Authorities have given the final go-ahead for a daring attempt Monday to pull upright the crippled Costa Concordia cruise liner from its side in the waters off Tuscany, a make-or-break engineering feat that has never before been tried in such conditions. The ship capsized there 20 months ago, and Italy's national Civil Protection agency waited until sea and weather conditions were forecast for dawn Monday before giving the OK to try to right it. In a statement Sunday, the Civil Protection agency said the sea and wind conditions [fall within the range of operating feasibility]. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)")
A bird stands in front of the Costa Concordia ship as it lies on its side on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, September 15, 2013. Authorities have given the final go-ahead for a daring attempt Monday to pull upright the crippled Costa Concordia cruise liner from its side in the waters off Tuscany, a make-or-break engineering feat that has never before been tried in such conditions. The ship capsized there 20 months ago, and Italy's national Civil Protection agency waited until sea and weather conditions were forecast for dawn Monday before giving the OK to try to right it. In a statement Sunday, the Civil Protection agency said the sea and wind conditions [fall within the range of operating feasibility]. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)
The Costa Concordia ship lies on its side on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, September 16, 2013. An international team of engineers is trying a never-before attempted strategy to set upright the luxury liner, which capsized after striking a reef in 2012 killing 32 people. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)
A girls sunbathes as the Costa Concordia ship lies on its side on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, September 16, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)
After about a two-hour delay because of thunderstorms, the salvage operation of the Costa Concordia cruise ship was to begin early off the coast of Italy, near the island of Giglio, 16th September 2013. (Photo by Valerio Nicolosi/Demotix)
![A salvage crew work on part of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia after the start of the [parbuckling] operation, outside Giglio harbor in Italy, on September 16, 2013. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fd89_big.jpg "A salvage crew work on part of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia after the start of the [parbuckling] operation, outside Giglio harbor in Italy, on September 16, 2013. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)")
A salvage crew work on part of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia after the start of the [parbuckling] operation, outside Giglio harbor in Italy, on September 16, 2013. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)
![The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, early Tuesday morning. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright after 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. (Photo by Reuters/Associated Press)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fd8c_big.jpg "The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, early Tuesday morning. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright after 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. (Photo by Reuters/Associated Press)")
The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, early Tuesday morning. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright after 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. (Photo by Reuters/Associated Press)
A general view showing the shipwrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia in an upright position after the salvage operations in Giglio island, Italy, 17 September 2013. Salvage crews pulled off a major engineering feat when they straightened the listed Costa Concordia cruise ship from the rocks it had been wedged against for the past 20 months. The delicate operation took 19 hours and was completed at 4 am (0200 GMT). The vessel ran aground near the island of Giglio, in Tuscany, in an accident that made world-wide news. (Photo by Angelo Carconi/EPA)
![The damaged side of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen at the end of the [parbuckling] operation outside Giglio harbour September 17, 2013. Salvage crews on the Italian island of Giglio raised the Costa Concordia cruise liner early on Tuesday, completing one of the most difficult and expensive wreck recovery projects ever performed. In a 19-hour operation which ended at 4.00 a.m. (0200 GMT), the 114,500 ship was pulled upright by a series of huge jacks and cables and left resting in 30 metres of water on underwater platforms drilled into the rocky sea bed. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fd8e_big.jpg "The damaged side of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen at the end of the [parbuckling] operation outside Giglio harbour September 17, 2013. Salvage crews on the Italian island of Giglio raised the Costa Concordia cruise liner early on Tuesday, completing one of the most difficult and expensive wreck recovery projects ever performed. In a 19-hour operation which ended at 4.00 a.m. (0200 GMT), the 114,500 ship was pulled upright by a series of huge jacks and cables and left resting in 30 metres of water on underwater platforms drilled into the rocky sea bed. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)")
The damaged side of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen at the end of the [parbuckling] operation outside Giglio harbour September 17, 2013. Salvage crews on the Italian island of Giglio raised the Costa Concordia cruise liner early on Tuesday, completing one of the most difficult and expensive wreck recovery projects ever performed. In a 19-hour operation which ended at 4.00 a.m. (0200 GMT), the 114,500 ship was pulled upright by a series of huge jacks and cables and left resting in 30 metres of water on underwater platforms drilled into the rocky sea bed. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)
![The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, September 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after 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. (Photo by Andrea Sinibaldi/AP Photo/Lapresse)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fd8f_big.jpg "The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, September 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after 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. (Photo by Andrea Sinibaldi/AP Photo/Lapresse)")
The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, September 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after 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. (Photo by Andrea Sinibaldi/AP Photo/Lapresse)
![The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, early Tuesday morning, September 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after 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. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fd90_big.jpg "The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, early Tuesday morning, September 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after 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. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)")
The Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, early Tuesday morning, September 17, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)
![A detail of the previously submerged side of the Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, September 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after 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. (Photo by Andrea Sinibaldi/AP Photo/Lapresse)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fd91_big.jpg "A detail of the previously submerged side of the Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, September 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after 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. (Photo by Andrea Sinibaldi/AP Photo/Lapresse)")
A detail of the previously submerged side of the Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, September 17, 2013. (Photo by Andrea Sinibaldi/AP Photo/Lapresse)
Workers on a boat sail past the Costa Concordia ship after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, September 17, 2013. Engineers declared success on Tuesday as the Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright during a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany, an unprecedented feat that sets the stage for it to be towed away next year. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)
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