Experience the monumental effort to recover and salvage the Costa Concordia, a cruise liner that tragically capsized and ran aground off Italy's coast on January 13, 2012, resulting in the loss of 32 lives. This colossal vessel, with a 160-foot gash in its side, measures the length of three football fields and weighs 45,000 tons, lying partially submerged near a delicate reef. The task of relocating it from its dangerous position on the brink of an underwater cliff presented an incredible array of technical and logistical hurdles.
Show
NOVA
Episode
S42E12
Air Date
Jan 21, 2015