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S42E12 Sunken Ship Rescue

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.