Costa Concordia Is Set Upright

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BY GILLES CASTONGUAY AND GIADA ZAMPANO
Salvage workers Tuesday succeeded in the delicate operation of pulling the Costa Concordia cruise ship upright near a small Italian island off Tuscany, completing the biggest and costliest operation of its kind in about 19 hours.
More than a year after the ship ran aground and after months of preparations, workers used a series of cables and pulleys to haul the 114,000-ton ship off its side and place it upright on an underwater platform built on the side of a reef near Giglio island, in a process known as parbuckling.
Shortly after 4 a.m. local time, a foghorn wailed off …
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