Click here to watch The Sydney Morning Herald's live stream ofsalvage workers attempting to lift the Costa Concordia cruise shipoff its side today. The ship has been sitting in the watersoff the Italian island of Giglio since it hit rocks on the coast inJanuary 2012, claiming 32 lives.
|A multinational team of 500 has occupied the island for most ofthe past year, stabilising the hulk and preparing for the start ofthe lifting work. The crew is attaching a series of cables andhydraulic machines that will pull the hulk from above and below andslowly twisting it upright. Engineers say they are confident the12-hour parbuckling project will work but there is no 100 percentguarantee that nothing will go wrong. The 951-foot-long CostaConcordia is estimated to weigh 54,000 tons.
|For the latest on the Costa Concordia salvageprogress, see: Engineers Start Costa Concordia Salvage off ItalianIsland
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