Shipwrecked Costa Concordia declared vertical off Italy Tuesday Sep 17,2013

The crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday Sep 17,2013 during a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany, with officials declaring it a "perfect" end to a daring and unprecedented engineering feat

Shortly after 4 a.m., a foghorn wailed on Giglio Island and the head of Italy's Civil Protection agency, Franco Gabrielli, announced that the ship had reached vertical and that the operation to rotate it - known in nautical terms as parbuckling - was complete

Workers inspect the Costa Concordia after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy on Wed Sep 18,2013

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Thirty-two people died when the ship, with 4,200 passengers onboard, hit rocks and ran aground off the island of Giglio on January 2012.