By Nick Squires

The 950ft-long ship, which in tonnage is more than twice as big as the Titanic, was finally raised at 4am local time, 2am GMT, from the rocky shallows in which it had lain since capsizing off the Italian island of Giglio on Jan 13, 2012. The ship came to rest on six specially-constructed, underwater platforms made of steel.

It was a striking sight – its port side, which had remained out of the water, still a pristine white, while its starboard side, which was submerged for 20 months, was coated in brown scum and algae. The salvage revealed two huge holes that had been punched in the starboard side of the vessel when it keeled over onto a granite reef just a few hundred yards off Giglio.

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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/