What an engineering trick this was.  Everybody was holding their collective breaths today as the doomed ocean liner the Costa Concordia, which has been lying half submerged off the Italian coast for over a year, was uprighted.

A ship this size (more than 115, 000 tons) has never been righted in the water.  Watch below as a time lapse video captures this mesmerizing achievement!

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