Parbuckling the operative buzzword. Really impressive delicate operation involving humongous flotation devices, winches etc. The team even turned the ships lights on and made it their project headquarters!?!?! 33 lives lost in the original disaster, none in the two-year removal. Just curious, any of yawl see this broadcast on TV?
Whoa, breaking up the ship 'will take around 125 workers between 18 months and two and a half years. Once the Concordia's in Genoa, crews will construct a giant tent over the ship and none of us will ever see it again. The front and the back will be dismantled first, and any possessions that passengers left behind as they fled the sinking liner will be returned to their owners.'
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/13/world/europe/costa-concordia-salvage-explainer/
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