• Engineers at work on the Costa Concordia ahead of the start of the salvage operationin Isola del Giglio, Italy. Marco Secchi/Getty Images
    Engineers at work on the Costa Concordia ahead of the start of the salvage operationin Isola del Giglio, Italy. Marco Secchi/Getty Images
  • People look on as the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia lies on its side next to Giglio Island. Reuters/Tony Gentile.
    People look on as the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia lies on its side next to Giglio Island. Reuters/Tony Gentile.
  • ISOLA DEL GIGLIO, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 16: People look on as engineers work on the Costa Concordia as they attempt a salvage operation on September 16, 2013 in Isola del Giglio, Italy. Work begins today to right the stricken Costa Concordia vessel, which sank on January 12, 2012. If the operation is successful, it will then be towed away and scrapped. The procedure, known as parbuckling, has never been carried out on a vessel as large as Costa Concordia before. (Photo by Marco Secchi/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** 180692297.jpg
    ISOLA DEL GIGLIO, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 16: People look on as engineers work on the Costa Concordia as they attempt a salvage operation on September 16, 2013 in Isola del Giglio, Italy. Work begins today to right the stricken Costa Concordia vessel, which sank on January 12, 2012. If the operation is successful, it will then be towed away and scrapped. The procedure, known as parbuckling, has never been carried out on a vessel as large as Costa Concordia before. (Photo by Marco Secchi/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** 180692297.jpg
  • An international team of engineers was trying a never-before attempted strategy to set upright the luxury liner, which capsized after striking a reef in 2012 killing 32 people. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini
    An international team of engineers was trying a never-before attempted strategy to set upright the luxury liner, which capsized after striking a reef in 2012 killing 32 people. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini
  • This combination of photos shows the Costa Concordia before, top, during, center, and after an operation was competed to lift the cruise ship to an upright position. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini,
    This combination of photos shows the Costa Concordia before, top, during, center, and after an operation was competed to lift the cruise ship to an upright position. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini,
  • The procedure to right the boat, known as parbuckling, has never been carried out on a vessel as large as Costa Concordia before. Photo by Laura Lezza/Getty Images
    The procedure to right the boat, known as parbuckling, has never been carried out on a vessel as large as Costa Concordia before. Photo by Laura Lezza/Getty Images
  • Salvage crews completed raising the wreck of the Costa Concordia in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a 19-hour-long operation on the Italian island of Giglio where the huge cruise liner capsized in January last year. Reuters/Tony Gentile
    Salvage crews completed raising the wreck of the Costa Concordia in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a 19-hour-long operation on the Italian island of Giglio where the huge cruise liner capsized in January last year. Reuters/Tony Gentile
  • The wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship begins to emerge from water on September 17, 2013 near the harbour of Giglio Porto. Salvage operators in Italy lifted the Costa Concordia cruise ship upright from its watery grave off the island of Giglio on Tuesday in the biggest ever project of its kind. AFP Photo / Vincenzo Pinto
    The wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship begins to emerge from water on September 17, 2013 near the harbour of Giglio Porto. Salvage operators in Italy lifted the Costa Concordia cruise ship upright from its watery grave off the island of Giglio on Tuesday in the biggest ever project of its kind. AFP Photo / Vincenzo Pinto
  • The head of the parbuckling project Nick Sloane talks with reporters at the end of the "parbuckling" operation at the Giglio harbour. Reuters/Tony Gentile
    The head of the parbuckling project Nick Sloane talks with reporters at the end of the "parbuckling" operation at the Giglio harbour. Reuters/Tony Gentile

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In pictures: Costa Concordia finally freed in huge salvage operation

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