"Italy’s Costa Concordia cruise ship on Monday began floating on its own for the first time since it crashed in January 2012, as an unprecedented salvage operation got underway to raise it.
The ship measuring 290 metres (951 feet) — the length of three football fields and twice as big as the Titanic — is slowly being refloated on the island of Giglio to be towed away for scrapping in Genoa.
“The ship is floating,” Franco Porcellacchia, the chief engineer in charge of the operation, told reporters.
“It is now about one metre off the underwater platform it was lying on,” he said, adding that it would be raised another metre before being shifted towards the open sea."
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