costa concordia
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I Want To Build All These Amazing Alternative Lighthouses
A new lighthouse would probably be a fitting memorial to the 2012 sinking of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy. Open-idea competition platform matterbetter has been running a contest to design a new lighthouse concept to live at the spot where the ship capsized, and while the entries aren’t realistic, they’re sure pretty…
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Watch The Costa Concordia Being Refloated Now, Right Here
Removing the shipwrecked Costa Concordia from its resting spot off the coast of Giglio Island has been a slow project. But a team of engineers is finally refloating the sunken ship — and you can watch it happening right here.
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The Costa Concordia’s 19-Hour Salvage In Timelapse, Photos And GIFs
After an incredible 19-hour salvage effort, the crippled Costa Concordia cruise liner was successfully pulled upright from its side in the waters off Tuscany yesterday in a make-or-break engineering attempt that had never before been tried in such conditions. Here’s a much, much closer look.
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A Quadcopter’s-Eye View Of The Costa Concordia Shipwreck
The wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia in early 2012 resulted in 32 deaths and the destruction of the ship, resulting in a $US300 million salvage operation that may be the most expensive in history. A pair of quadcopters equipped with cameras capture the sad vessel and the massive operation to remove it from…