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Time-lapse video of the 19 hour righting of the Costa Concordia:
Costa Concordia: Live video of the massive salvage operation | National Post
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.
Read more: Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/0...ertical-after-1-hour-operation/#ixzz2f9zesmTA
Costa Concordia: Live video of the massive salvage operation | National Post
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.
Read more: Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/0...ertical-after-1-hour-operation/#ixzz2f9zesmTA
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