the South African salvage master in charge of the Costa Concordia removal operation. "In those days, they could use the leverage of the mast and the sail booms to assist" in raising a ship.

Salvage operators off the Italian coast ran into a couple of snags on Monday as they attempted to right the very wrong shipwreck of the Costa Concordia, which hit the rocks off the picturesque ...

The ship, which first sailed in 2005, cost about $570 million. The 150-mile tow to Genoa is expected to take about five days. Scroll through for more photos of the Costa Concordia raising.

In September 2013, engineers in Giglio, Italy, worked all day to pull up the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which struck a reef and keeled over, killing 32 people on Jan. 13, 2012. Advertisement 0: ...

Salvage experts outlined their plan Friday to raise the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner from the sea floor off Italy in one piece and tow it from the disaster site. The complicated operation ...

GIGLIO, Italy — Twenty months after it capsized off the Italian coast in a disaster that killed 32 people, the Costa Concordia cruise ship emerged from the Mediterranean on Monday thanks to a ...

GIGLIO, Italy—The rotation of the crippled Costa Concordia cruise liner off the rocks of the Tuscan island of Giglio began at 9 A.M. today (September 16), three hours late due to a torrential ...

Although he was feted in Italy for his successful refloating of the Costa Concordia, the South African stressed that he has not been approached in an official capacity about raising the Bayesian.

Next week, a salvage crew plans to rotate and raise the Costa Concordia cruise ship, in one of the biggest maritime salvage operations ever... Weather permitting, one of the largest maritime ...

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Workers will then raise the decaying cruise liner one deck ... being sued by dozens of survivors of the accident, and the Costa Concordia’s captain, Francesco Schettino, is on trial for ...