ITALY: Multi-angle time lapse cameras capture magical moment of Costa Concordia rotation

Record ID: 860086

  • Title: ITALY: Multi-angle time lapse cameras capture magical moment of Costa Concordia rotation
  • Date: 18th September 2013
  • Summary: GIGLIO, ITALY (SEPTEMBER 16, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS TIME LAPSE DAWN ACTIVITY AROUND THE STRICKEN CRUISE SHIP COSTA CONCORDIA BEFORE LIFTING PROCESS STARTS VARIOUS TIME LAPSE PARBUCKLING OPERATION OF CONCORDIA DAY TIME VARIOUS TIME LAPSE PARBUCKLING OPERATION NIGHT TIME VARIOUS BOATS IN HARBOUR AT NIGHT TIME PARBUCKLING OPERATION NIGHT TIME GIGLIO, ITALY (SEPTEMBER 17, 2013) (REUTERS) CONCORDIA COMPLETES ROTATION TO ARRIVE FULLY UPRIGHT DAWN BREAKS OVER UPRIGHT CONCORDIA
  • Embargoed: 3rd October 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Italy
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  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Disasters,General,Transport
  • Reuters ID: LVA39D0BN1OVAN1DIS1DPMQNA5NM
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  • Story Text: Multiple cameras situated around the Tuscan island of Giglio have captured the moment the Costa Concordia was raised from a variety of different angles.
    Filmed from around the port area in the early hours of Monday (September 16) just before the project started until the early hours of the morning on Tuesday (September 17) the cameras move from the bobbing boats in the harbour to the incredible engineering feat of hauling the 114,500-ton vessel upright.
    In a 19-hour operation that ended at 4 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Tuesday (September 17), the ship was hauled up by huge jacks and cables and lowered onto underwater platforms drilled into the sea bed.
    The "parbuckling" technique had never been tried on so large a ship in such a tricky position, with the added risk of an environmental disaster in the azure Tuscan waters.
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