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The wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship sits near the harbor of Giglio, Italy, on Tuesday, September 17, after a salvage crew rolled the ship off its side. The Costa Concordia ran aground off Giglio in January 2012, killing 32 of the 4,200 people on board.
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The ship had been lying on its side for 20 months off the island of Giglio. Here, members of the U.S. company Titan Salvage and the Italian marine contractor Micoperi pass by the wreckage.
Damage to the right side of the ship is apparent in the early hours of September 17.
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Using a vast system of steel cables and pulleys, maritime engineers work on Monday, September 16, to hoist the ship’s massive hull off the reef where it capsized.
The project to upright the Costa Concordia continues on September 16. The nearly $800 million effort reportedly is the largest maritime salvage operation ever.
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A water line marks the former level of the stricken Costa Concordia as the salvaging operation continues on September 16. The procedure, known as parbuckling, has never been carried out on a vessel as large as Costa Concordia before.
Members of the U.S. salvage company Titan and Italian firm Micoperi work at the wreck site early on September 16.
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Technicians work to salvage the half-submerged ship on July 7. Nearly 500 workers are involved in an operation to remove the wreck while protecting the marine environment.
Giant hollow boxes have been attached to the side of the ship, seen on May 27, 2013. Attempts to refloat the ship will be aided by the compartments.
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A commemorative plaque honoring the victims of the cruise disaster is unveiled in Giglio on January 14, 2013.
Survivors, grieving relatives and locals release lanterns into the sky in Giglio after a minute of silence on January 13, 2013, marking the one-year anniversary of the shipwreck. The 32 lanterns — one for each of the victims — were released at 9:45 p.m. local time, the moment of impact.
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A man holds an Italian flag on his balcony overlooking the port of Giglio on January 13, 2013.
A man works in front of the shipwreck on January 12, 2013.
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A couple walks along the port of Giglio at night on January 12, 2013.
A man sits in his boat in front of the half-submerged cruise ship on January 8, 2013.
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Cranes and floating decks surrounding the ship light up the dusk sky on January 9, 2013.
Workers stand on the edge of the ship on January 8, 2013.
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A crew passes by the hulking remains on January 7, 2013.
People enjoy a day in the sun with a view of the cruise liner on July 1, 2012.
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Military rescue workers approach the cruise liner on January 22, 2012.
Members of the Italian coast guard conduct a search-and-rescue mission on January 21, 2012.
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Rescue operations to search for missing people resumed on January 20, 2012, after being suspended for a third time as conditions caused the vessel to shift on the rocks.
The Costa Serena, the sister ship of the wrecked Costa Concordia, passes by on January 18, 2012.
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A bird flies overhead the Costa Concordia on January 18, 2012. Rescue operations were suspended as the ship slowly sank farther into the sea.
The ship was sailing a few hundred meters off the rocky Tuscan coastline.
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An Italian coast guard helicopter flies over Giglio’s harbor on January 16, 2012.
Rescuers search the waters near the stricken ship on January 16, 2012.
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The Concordia, pictured on January 15, 2012, was on a Mediterranean cruise from Rome when it hit rocks off the coast of Giglio.
The ship starts keeling over early on January 14, 2012. Evacuation efforts started promptly but were made “extremely difficult� by the position of the listing ship, officials said.
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Rescued passengers arrive at Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, on January 14, 2012. The Costa Concordia was carrying 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members.
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(CNN) — Human remains have been found on the wrecked Costa Concordia, possibly answering what happened to the last two missing passengers of the cruise liner that struck rocks off Italy’s Giglio Island in 2012, a spokesman for the head of Italy’s civil protection agency said Thursday. Divers will try to recover the remains, which were found on deck 4, on Thursday afternoon, the spokesman said. The discovery comes a week after engineers finally righted the ship, which capsized when it hit rocks in the Tyrrhenian Sea in January 2012, killing 32 of the 4,200 people on board. The toll of 32 includes two people who were missing but presumed dead: Russel Rebello of India and Maria Grazia Trecarichi of Sicily. Their bodies were long believed to be either trapped beneath or inside the ship.
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Tragedy transforms island paradise
Costa Concordia families still wait
Rebello, 33, was a cruise waiter who was last seen helping passengers off the ship. Trecarichi was on the cruise to celebrate her 50th birthday with her 17-year-old daughter, who survived. Authorities say the ship struck the rocks off Giglio Island after the captain, Francesco Schettino, ordered the liner to veer more than four miles off course to salute a former sea captain who had retired on Giglio. How the ship was raised Schettino faces charges of manslaughter, causing a maritime disaster and abandoning ship with passengers still on board. His trial, which began with preliminary hearings in March, resumed Monday in Grosseto. Schettino argues that he is a hero who saved the lives of more than 4,000 people, not a villain whose negligence led to the deaths of 32. His defense is trying to prove, among other things, that the ship’s watertight doors did not function properly, and that is the reason the ship sank, leading to all 32 deaths during evacuation. Engineers rotated the ship back to vertical last week after it rested 20 months on its side. The unprecedented maneuver, called parbuckling, exposed a twisted mass of metal dotted with mattresses, passenger luggage and deck chairs on the ship’s previously submerged starboard side. With the Costa Concordia now upright, judges on Wednesday agreed to Schettino’s request for a new examination of the ship. He also wants to walk the judges through the command bridge in a re-creation of the night of the crash. Inside a wrecked cruise ship Schettino also has told the court that the ship would not have crashed had his helmsman executed his instructions.
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According to recordings from the ship’s bridge from the vessel’s black box, Schettino directed the helmsman to turn “hard to starboard” in English, but the helmsman can be heard asking “hard to port?” The helmsman then turned the ship right instead of left just 13 seconds before it hit the rocks. A maritime expert has testified that those 13 seconds made no difference, saying it takes longer than that to change a ship’s course. But Schettino told the court that if the helmsman “had not turned the wheel the wrong way, we would have avoided hitting the rocks.” The trial is expected to last through the fall with a string of witnesses, including passengers, crew members and islanders, who say they saw the captain on shore looking for dry socks before all the passengers had been safely evacuated. The helmsman, Jacob Rusli Bin, and four others were convicted in a plea deal in July for their role in the disaster. A Florence court is considering the validity of those plea bargain agreements. After salvage, island celebrations and relief
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