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Delayed Costa Concordia salvage begins
The operation to right Costa Concordia has begun after being delayed for two hours due to storms.
More than 50 chains and winches will be used to roll the ship – twice as heavy as the Titanic – onto her keel.
By the end of today the cruise ship, which capsized 20 months ago, should be sitting on a specially prepared underwater platform of steel and concrete.
"Due to heavy storms tonight, the operation has been put back by two hours," to 08:00 (06:00 GMT) civil protection chief Franco Gabrieli said yesterday.
There are fears that the operation could pollute the water with rotting food, reports the Telegraph.
The cruise ship had been at the start of a week-long cruise in the Mediterranean with its larders and freezers packed to capacity when it capsized off the coast of Italy killing 32 people.
There is believed to be more than 24,000lbs of fish, nearly 5,500lbs of cheese, more than 17,000lbs of raw beef, nearly 11,000 eggs and more than 1,000 gallons of milk under the hull.
There are also oils, lubricants and other chemicals inside the vessel.
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