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Costa Concordia wreck refloating given green light

2014-07-12 1 Dailymotion

The wreckage from the Costa Concordia cruise ship is finally set to be moved.<br/> <br />It's been two and a half years since it sank near the Italian island of Giglio, killing 32 people.<br/> <br />Authorities said the ship is scheduled to be refloated on Monday -- an operation which is expected to take six or seven days.<br/> <br />Then it will be towed to the northern port of Genoa to be scrapped.<br/> <br />Residents of the tiny island, which depends on tourism, welcomed the news.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Italian) GIGLIO RESIDENT AND FERRY WORKER, ITALO ARIENTI, SAYING:<br/> <br />"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."<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE) (Italian) GIGLIO RESIDENT, FRANCA MELIS, SAYING:<br/> <br />"It's a liberation. Finally. It's a liberation because it's about time that it goes away. We know very well what the Island has gone through over these last two and a half years - for better or worse - now it's got to go away, a

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