The raising of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia for transfer to the port of Genoa, where it will be dismantled, started early today off the island of Giglio, in the central region of Tuscany where it sank on 13 January 2012.
"The program is respected in the smallest details. In regards to the protection of the environment, we have developed a solution for every possible problem," said Italian Environment Minister, Gian Luca Galletti.
The operation began shortly after 6:00 pm (4:00 GMT) and the first phase, which envisages raising the wreck about two feet and move 30 meters in this direction, it should take between six and eight hours.
The operations are conducted by the South African engineer Nicholas Sloane expert rescue shipwrecks.
"They have met 31 months exactly since the accident occurred and finally succeed in removing the remains," said Sloane Eve.
For his part, the head of the Civil Protection Franco Gabrielli said the most critical phase occur when the spacecraft separates from the platforms on which was placed in late 2012 and is capable of partially autonomous floating.
In technical work and then work 42 to lift the ship by two meters, will be towed out to sea, where it will remain for several days to drain water steel boxes placed on their sides, so that they serve as floats.
It is expected that next week the Costa Concordia begins to be moved by tugboats to the port of Genoa, about 370 miles away, where it will be dismantled.
The wreck of the cruise ship killed 32 people the night of January 13, 2012, when he collided with the obstacles for getting too close to the island of Giglio to greet people on the ground.
The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, who escaped the ship when hundreds of passengers were still on board, is currently on trial accused of multiple manslaughter, abandoning ship and shipwreck.
The Costa Concordia was the biggest ship that has sunk in the history of navigation, and the time of the accident more than four thousand people were on board.
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