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The BBC's Matthew Price, on the ferry to Giglio, gets a close-up view of the scene
The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been successfully raised from the under-sea platform it has been resting on for the past year, salvage workers say.
The wreck - the target of the one of the biggest maritime salvage operations in history - is now floating about 1m (3ft) off the platform.
In all, the refloating operation is expected to take six or seven days.
The ship will then be towed to its home port, Genoa, where it will be scrapped.
The Concordia struck a reef off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people.
Workers are slowly lifting the vessel by pumping air into tanks attached to the ship.
The wreck was hauled upright in September but was still partially submerged, resting on six steel platforms.
"It's a very complex operation," Franco Gabrielli, the head of the civil protection agency overseeing the salvage, told reporters.
"The first phase of the operation will be the most dangerous because the vessel will be detached from the platforms."
He added that a search for the remains of Indian waiter Russel Rebello, whose body was not recovered from the wreck, would be carried out after the vessel was moved.
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How the disaster happened
Key dates
2012
- 13 Jan: Costa Concordia runs aground
- 31 Jan: Search for bodies abandoned
- 22 March: Five more bodies found in wreck
- 24 March: Fuel removal work completed
- 21 April: Salvage contract awarded to firms Titan Salvage and Micoperi
- 15 Oct: Capt Schettino appears at court inquiry
2013
- 3 Apr: Largest support platform in position
- 9 July: Captain Schettino goes on trial
- 20 July: Five senior crew members convicted of manslaughter
- 17 Sept: Ship rolled upright in 'parbuckling' operation
2014
- 14 July: Refloating operation begins
Special report: Costa Concordia disaster
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Earlier this month, police divers released underwater footage of the wreck
An engineer with Costa Crociere, the cruise operator, described the salvage efforts as "unprecedented".
"As with anything being done for the first time, there are risks. But we are confident," Franco Porcellacchia said.
Hundreds of divers and engineers have been involved in operations to salvage the Concordia, which is twice the size of the Titanic.
Local residents have said they are glad the wreckage will be removed.
"I am happy they are taking it away because to see a ship like that always there, with the deaths that happened, it gives us the shivers," Italo Arienti told Reuters news agency.
The captain, Francesco Schettino, is on trial for manslaughter and abandoning ship, charges he denies.
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