The Costa Concordia massive cruise ship that was run aground 20 months ago is now being prepared to be lifted upright. Being a 11,400 ton boat it has taken about 1.5 year to come with an appropriate plan of action to make sure that the ship does not break/buckle and spills its entire contents into the sea. Engineers have taken a lot of time to attach all sorts of cable in order to get attached to the ship in a proper way and to make sure none of the metal breaks. A technique called parbuckling is being used. Even after lifting it .. It will still be low in the water. The pressure will be increased in order to make it float. The repairing of the boat itself is going to take around one year. This is a massive engineering feat.
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