Where is the Costa Concordia Now?

The ship that went aground one year ago is slowly but surely being turned upright and salvaged

  • By Mark Strauss
  • Smithsonian magazine, February 2013
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(Enrico Sacchetti )


Once it’s upright, the sponsons will be drained, and additional ones will be attached to the other side. They’ll all be filled with air, providing buoyancy like a giant life preserver. With luck, the liner will be towed into an Italian port, where ship breakers will spend two years turning it into scrap metal, which will be sold.

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