Costa Concordia sits upright in the Italian night

At approximately 4 a.m. on Giglio Island the engineers checked their measurements and sure enough, the Costa Concordia was sitting at 90 degrees to the sea floor. It is still submerged but that is the next manoeuvre in this amazing feat of physics. This picture is courtesy of the Telegraph newspaper which tells the story in rolling tweets. The left side of  the ship, as seen here, is mud-caked and damaged. Editors compared the image to something that looks like a “before and after the makeover” picture.