Two years after the Costa Concordia flipped over the coast of Tuscany, engineers would attempt today to salvage the disastrous cruise ship, which lays half-sunk and crushed over the reef. The accident caused the death of 32 people out of the 4.200 passengers on board while many others suffered severe injuries.
Now the goal is to pull out the ship without causing any damage to the environmentally protected waters of Giglio Island.
What is considered to be the challenge and the difficult part of the engineers is towing it away in one piece, as a 115.000 ton vessel in its spot may damage the area. This historic process is going to be divided in two steps: parbucking and re-floating. The steps are said to be really difficult and risky, as the attempt has never been tested out in such a large vessel.
According to the Italian Government, this process is expected to take from at least 8 hours to 2 days! However, the process, scheduled to start earlier today, has been delayed due to weather difficulties.
