The engineering task to right the Costa Concordia cruise ship is underway and has so far moved the 114,500 ton vessel three degrees. It is, obviously, painstakingly slow work with fears for the safety of workers or a catastrophic break up of the ship. So far it seems to be going more or less to plan. “The ship has lifted off the rocks,” said Sergio Girotto, an engineer for the joint Italian-US salvage operation, which will cost 600 million euros ($800 million) so far. “The first hours were the most uncertain because we did not know how stuck the ship was,” he said
