MS Costa Concordia, the massive 114,000-ton cruise ship that infamously struck ground off the coast of an Italian island in January 2012, is currently undergoing a process to raise the once-doomed vessel. After a morning filled with thunderstorms that delayed the start-time of the operation, crews are now working to eventually right the Costa Concordia.

Having taken-on water after going aground due to poor navigation, the Costa Concordia has been halfway submerged off of the Isola del Giglio for over a year and a half, and is now the center of one of the most expensive and encompassing salvage efforts in maritime history. The terrible disaster of the ship’s demise on the night of January 12th, 2012, claimed the lives of 30 passengers (and two more are missing and presumed dead). Many thousands more of the Costa Concordia’s crew and passengers fled the listing cruise liner in a desperate escape.

Here’s the live stream of the salvage efforts being made on the Costa Concordia:

Estimates have placed the operation as taking up to two full days of work before the enormous ship can be raised, however early accounts have noted that it could in fact be done within 12 hours. The sight of a half-sunken cruise liner has become eerily familiar to residents of the Italian village Giglio Porto, located nearby. Now, the efforts to raise the ship have brought a small army of workers to the area.

Further ramifications of the raising of the vessel generally revolve around the unprecedented nature of the event. No ship as large as the Costa Concordia has ever been raised using the “parbuckling” technique. In this method, the Costa Concordia will slowly be pulled off the rocks that it’s been resting on, rotated and actually flooded further during one stretch so that the effort to rotate it can be helped.

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