FLORENCE, ITALY – The refloating of the Costa Concordia cruise ship has been put off from June until July 20, 2014.
An international salvage group is attaching floats to the recently righted carcass of the huge liner that hit a rock on Tuscany’s Giglio Island in January 2012..
The salvage effort recently ran into trouble when one of the floats buckled after the giant liner was pulled upright.
On May 7th 2014 a steel pontoon meant to stabilize the wreckage of the Concordia ship tilted after a repair operation failed keep it upright. The liner has not left the area since crashing in January 2012 and killing 32 people on board.
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