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| Stricken Costa Concordia ship set upright | Stricken Costa Concordia ship set upright |
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| Engineers in Italy have succeeded in setting the cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, 20 months after it ran aground off the island of Giglio. | Engineers in Italy have succeeded in setting the cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, 20 months after it ran aground off the island of Giglio. |
| They said that the unprecedented salvage effort "reached degree zero (vertical), which was our target". | |
| In the operation that took all of Monday and most of the night, they used cables and metal boxes filled with water to roll the ship onto a platform. | In the operation that took all of Monday and most of the night, they used cables and metal boxes filled with water to roll the ship onto a platform. |
| The Costa Concordia capsized in January 2012, killing 32 people. | The Costa Concordia capsized in January 2012, killing 32 people. |
| The bodies of two of the victims of the disaster, by the island of Giglio, have never been found. There are hopes that they may be located during the operation. | The bodies of two of the victims of the disaster, by the island of Giglio, have never been found. There are hopes that they may be located during the operation. |
| 'Double Titanic' | |
| The ship was declared completely upright shortly after 04:00 local time (02:00) on Tuesday. | |
| Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's Civil Protection Authority, said the vessel was now sitting on a platform built on the sea bed. | |
| The 114,000-gross tonnage ship - twice as heavy as the Titanic - was earlier raised from rocks on which it had been lying and roll up onto her keel. | |
| More than 50 enormous chains and winches were used to break the ship away from the reef. | |
| During the marathon operation, the ship could be seen slowly emerging from the water, and the clearly visible watermark on the part that had been submerged. | |
| Engineers have never tried to lift such a huge ship - over 951 feet long (290m) - before. |