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About 20 months after it ran aground, the cruise ship Costa Cordia was successfully lifted by engineers in Italy and freed from rocks. 32 people died when the Costa Cordia ran aground off the Tuscan coast in January 2012, with the bodies of two never found. Workers attached giant metal chains and cables to the cruise ship, which is said to be roughly the length of 3 football fields. Environmentalists have warned that if the salvage operation goes wrong, toxic substances could leak into the sea. Likewise, dirty water trapped in the rotting, rusting wreck will pour out as the ship rises, the BBC reported. The salvage is the biggest ever for a passenger ship that had 4,229 people from 70 countries on board.
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