The cruise liner Costa Concordia ran aground and capsized on January 13, 2012, killing 32 people. She was righted by using leverage to rotate her - a technique known as Parbuckling. This was done successfully in September of 2013. There is some nice time-lapse video at The Discovery Channel's Raising the Concordia.
Yesterday marks another milestone as she was refloated off the artificial platform where she had been resting since the parbuckling. gCaptain has a writeup including this video:
Refloating the Costa Concordia – Day 1 Time-Lapse
On July 14, 2014, the Costa Concordia shipwreck was partially refloated by two meters from the artificial seabed on which it rested and moved approximately 30 meters to the east. Like with the parbuckling, today’s partial refloating happened so slowly that by watching the live streams it was tough to tell if anything was happening at all. Lucky for us though these time-lapses provide some pretty visual evidence that the cruise ship is no longer resting on the shores of Giglio.
With the vessel now floating, over the next few days technicians will secure and maneuver the sponsons into their final positions before the full refloating takes place. The entire refloating phase is expected to last 6 to 7 days. The Costa Concordia is scheduled to be towed to Genoa starting July 21, 2014, where it will be demolished. The tow is expected to take five days. So far, everything is going as planned.
Some amazing engineering going on here.
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