All language subtitles for Cruise.Ship.Down.Saving.Concordia (2013)

Narrator: The costa concordia.

Longer than the Titanic,

with twice as many decks.

One of the world's most
luxurious cruise ships.

Man: Exit the
other side, please!

Exit the other side!

Narrator: On the night
of January 13, 2012,

near Italy's tuscan coast,

she becomes the largest
passenger shipwreck in history.

[Screaming]

30 people are dead.

Two are still missing.

Now the world's best
marine salvage team

faces mission impossible.

They'll only have one chance
to raise the massive ship

that is teetering precariously
over a deep-sea drop-off.

Senior salvage
master Nick Sloane

is in charge of it all.

Woman: This is Mr. Sloane.
Woman: Hi, Mr. Sloane.

Nick Sloane: You have to
live and die by your decisions.

Narrator: Will
Sloane and his team

manage to right the ship

without triggering an
environmental disaster?

Will the missing
victims be found?

This girl survived,

but her mother is
among the missing.

Now she shares her
mother's last known moments,

for the first time,
with her father.

[Woman speaking Italian]

Woman, translated: We heard
the alarm to abandon ship.

We all held hands,

then we went to
the lifeboat deck.

Narrator: Through
the eyes of survivors

and the skills of the engineers,

this is the untold story of
raising the costa concordia.

9:00 P.M., January 13, 2012.

The costa concordia
is just three hours

into her weekly cruise
around the mediterranean.

The huge vessel powers
toward the Italian island of giglio

at a speed of 16 knots.

On board, the concordia's
4,200 passengers and crew

enjoy the floating
pleasure palace.

They can choose from
one of her five restaurants,

or enjoy a drink in
any of her 13 bars.

Bingo is running on deck 5.

Stefania Vincenzi, her
mother Maria grazia,

and a friend, luisa versi,

sit down to dinner

in the Milano
restaurant on deck 3.

Stefania Vincenzi, translated:
It was a beautiful evening.

My mother was celebrating
her 50th birthday.

Narrator: Exquisite meals
flow out of the ship's kitchens

with factory-line precision.

But this typical
evening of indulgence

is about to be cut short.

While the passengers eat,

the ship strays
dangerously close to shore,

headed straight
for a rocky outcrop.

[Crash]

Woman: It was a loud
screeching, like "eeeerrrrrrrr."

Man: And then a huge crash
and almost like an explosion.

[Explosion]

Woman: It sounded
like a freight train

and that metal was just
rubbing up against metal.

[Crash]

Man: And then the ship
began to list quite heavily.

[Crashing]

Everything is
sliding off the tables,

people are screaming...

Woman: The lights went out.
Man: And the lights went out.

[Beeping]

Woman: And that
really caused panic.

Screaming and
running and falling...

Man: Exit the
other side, please!

Exit the other side!

Woman: Everyone's trying
to run out the main door.

Narrator: The largest Italian
cruise ship ever designed

is going down.

Stefania Vincenzi remembers
every minute of that night.

Stefania: We stayed
seated at our table

because the people
were panicked.

We preferred to stay
calm and stay seated,

also because the
ship was already tilting.

The waitress for our
table began to cry.

She collapsed.

My mother consoled her

and told her
everything would be ok.

She had a very reassuring
gaze, especially for me.

Those were the only eyes
that were able to calm me down.

So, I wasn't agitated
at all that evening.

Narrator: Thousands
of tons of seawater

flood the engine room,

and the great ship loses power.

[Man speaking Italian
over loudspeaker]

It's chaos,

it's terrifying,

and within minutes,

fear and confusion
turn to mass panic.

[People shouting]

Stefania: There were people
pushing and crushing people.

When you have these
situations of danger,

unfortunately the
crowds are uncontainable.

Narrator: A series of
horn blasts or alarms

is the international
signal to abandon ship.

Stefania: The alarm
went off to abandon ship.

Everyone was talking,

saying, "maybe it's
just shallow water.

Maybe the ship will stabilize."

Instead, we began
to hear the alarms.

Mama said that there
must be seven blasts

with the last one long.

Everything fell silent.

And we started
counting the blasts.

We heard the seventh alarm.

It had a prolonged blast.

We looked into each other's
eyes and said, "here we go."

[Shouting]

Woman: When they
finally lowered us down,

they still had
trouble releasing us.

And at this point you
have to remember,

the ship is leaning over us.

[Commotion]

You have this huge
structure just leaning over you,

and if you can't
release your lifeboat...

Man: It would have
come down upon us.

Woman: Yeah.

[Screaming]

Narrator: Stefania
and her mother

get in line for a
lifeboat on deck 4,

but it fills up before
they can board.

Her mother Maria

announces she's returning to
their cabin, two decks below.

Stefania: Mama
wanted to get a lifejacket

because it was cold

and because her friend
Louisa didn't know how to swim.

Woman: If we looked up, we
see the ship was on this angle,

and there's all people
on the bow of the ship,

yelling, "help! Help!"

[Yelling]

Narrator: Infrared footage
from the rescue helicopters

shows the escape
ladder at the stern

and some of the survivors
swimming the 20 yards to shore.

Stefania does as
her mother tells her

and boards another lifeboat.

Stefania: I tried to call my
mother to see where she was.

She said that she
was on a lifeboat,

and that she was arriving.

I said, "when you arrive,

call me and tell me what
part of the port you're in."

But that call never came.

Man: It seems we've
collided with an island.

Man: The whole city's
here to greet us, yeah.

Narrator: Many who reach shore

wait for news of
their loved ones.

The tiny island town

is flooded with thousands
of desperate refugees

from the disaster.

Man: This is no... No joke.

Oh, my goodness.

Narrator: Locals
become heroes that night.

Families open their homes
and hearts to strangers.

[Boy crying]

Many passengers make
their way to the church.

[Speaking Italian]

Man, translated: Here's
where those people are.

Also here.

There were people
with their lifejackets.

And they were waiting for
someone to do something.

I came and opened the church,
and they started to come in.

Everyone was here and here.

The guy who was soaking
wet was sitting here.

There were the children
who arrived in the beginning

who were cold.

Narrator: Those still on
board the doomed ship

could see the shore,

creating a false
sense of security.

Man: We could just
jump off and swim.

[Man speaking Italian]

Narrator: At 11 P.M.,

stefania's mother,
Maria, calls her husband,

but he doesn't hear the phone.

Maria calls a
family friend next,

who hears Louisa cry,

"I don't know how
to swim. Help me."

Stefania: My mother said,

"don't worry. You
can hold on to me.

I will take care of you."

And then he heard, "we're
sliding into the water,"

and a splash, as if the
phone was falling into the sea.

Narrator: The body of
Maria's friend, Louisa,

would later be found
with other victims.

But stefania's mother is
never heard from again,

and her fate is a mystery.

In the morning,

the costa concordia
lies on her side

near porto giglio.

The coast guard and fire rescue

start searching for
anyone still aboard.

[Man speaking Italian]

A local restaurant owner

displays the first
photo of the rescue

that flashed around the world.

[Man speaking Italian]

Man, translated: This photo
was requested by the firemen

who went to recover the bodies.

Narrator: 3o people
will be confirmed dead,

with two still missing:

Stefania's mother

and a young waiter from
India, Russell rubello.

Relatives fear the worst,

but there can't be closure
until the wreck is righted

and the submerged decks
are completely searched.

Almost two years later,
the 114,000-ton ship,

with another 60,000
tons of contents,

is collapsing from
its own weight.

It has become an
environmental hazard,

threatening the
entire coastline.

The costa concordia
must be removed.

If it was an empty shell,

the salvage crew
could simply cut her up.

But because the ship is
packed with personal effects

and possibly the
remains of two people,

that isn't an option.

There's only one plan:

Pull the concordia
upright and tow her away.

But the great ship

is perched on top of two
undersea granite pinnacles.

One wrong move
will twist her in two,

or send her spinning
into the abyss.

But they have to try.

After more than
a year of research,

experts came to a
shocking conclusion:

It's now or never.

The concordia may not
survive another winter intact.

She's an environmental
time bomb.

Man: Yeah, go ahead.

Nick: Yeah, you got a crew
change in 10, 15 minutes?

Narrator: Senior salvage
master Nick Sloane

has tackled some of the
world's toughest marine fixes,

like huge oil tankers
snapped in half

by waves off of
South Africa's coast.

Nick: Depending on the weather,

that looks more
sheltered down aft.

Narrator: But this one
is beyond compare.

Nick: Then when
you stand on board,

you see how
absolutely big it is,

and you really realize
what you've got yourself into.

Two things make it
particularly difficult.

One is the size of the
ship, and then the location.

So if you look at giglio,

the location where
she sat on the two reefs,

and you combine the
two assets together,

it's just off the scale.

Ok, let's get ready for deck.

Narrator: These
guys are a rare breed.

They can mobilize within hours,

ready to attack
sudden disasters.

Now they're taking on the
most challenging wreck removal

ever attempted.

Righting the concordia

will require nearly 500
experts from 24 nations.

Once upright,

she will be refloated and
towed to a shipyard in July.

Nick: We have one of
the largest salvage teams

ever put together in history.

Divers, welders, engineers,
fabricators, mariners...

Just everything
you can think of.

It's huge.

Narrator: Nick
Sloane and his team

have put 18 months
of backbreaking work

and could spend as
much as $800 million

on the gamble that they can
pry the great ship off the rocks.

They'll get only one
shot to do it right.

Salvage master Nick Sloane

is about to attempt
an engineering miracle:

Raising the costa concordia
from its watery grave.

It's called the
parbuckling project.

Parbuckling is a method
used to retrieve a sunken vessel

by using slings and
weight to roll her.

On one side,

hydraulic Jacks will keep
her from sliding down...

While powerful Jacks
on the opposite side

rotate her upright.

Nick: You can't really go
into a hardware store and say,

"I want one costa
concordia parbuckling kit,"

because they wouldn't
really know what you mean.

So everything that we have

has been designed
and built by the team.

Narrator: But the process
has never been applied

to a passenger ship
as large as concordia.

The preparation
alone is extraordinary.

First, the team fills in
beneath her sagging midsection

with 20,000 tons of
giant cement bags

to support her
tremendous weight.

The bags also level
the sloping sea floor

and will help distribute the
massive forces on the ship.

Then, they weld
10-story ballast tanks,

called sponsons,

on her exposed side.

These will be filled with water

during the latter
stage of the parbuckle

to assist the rotation...

And then emptied to add buoyancy
and to control her touchdown.

Next, they encircle
her with hydraulic Jacks

capable of shifting
over 200,000 tons

of dead weight upright.

Nick Sloane and his team
are as ready as they can be.

Woman: How do you feel?

Nick: Excited.

Yeah, we're looking
forward to getting her upright.

It's been a long 18 months.

And it's about time
that we got her up.

Narrator: The stakes
are high for the engineers

and the locals.

A day before it's a go,

the people of giglio call
in some help from above.

Local churches pray for success.

[Priest speaking Italian]

Priest, translated:
In particular,

we ask him to guide
the hand of those

who are carrying out
the recovery of the ship.

Narrator: It's a
high-risk operation.

The wreck is so fragile

that Sloane has only
one shot to get it right.

If the ship breaks apart,

the two missing victims
might never be found

and the coast will be
hopelessly polluted.

An engineering project this size

requires attention to
every minute detail.

Sloane tested his approach
to righting the concordia

through computer simulations.

But at first, all this advanced
technology brought bad news.

Just pulling the ship up
as is would end in disaster.

Nick: It looks like a bad
car crash in the model.

And then it told us the bow
and the stern would fall off

if we didn't do
corrective action.

Narrator: The
original simulations

identified two
critical challenges.

First, the bow,

overhanging the
support platforms

by nearly a football field,

could collapse and break off.

Nick: In the bow area
it was far too deep.

So the water depth just
goes all the way down

to 80, 100 meters.

We could not build
a platform there.

Narrator: So they created
a buoyant neck brace

to support the bow
and spine of the ship.

Nick: And it's like a casualty

with a spinal injury
on the ground.

You hold the neck and
you just rotate them slowly

to minimize any
twist in the spine.

Narrator: It all comes
down to weight and power.

But when one problem is solved,

another appears.

The second
challenge is impossible

to completely
troubleshoot in advance.

Nick knows the concordia
is lodged on rocks

that punched through her hull.

What he can't know

is how tightly those rocks
might hold her to the sea floor

as they attempt the lift.

Nick: The breakout force

depends on the
profile of the rock.

So if the rock is
nice and smooth,

we can break it off
without too much friction.

But if they have a knuckle

which is trapped
inside on the side shelf,

then you have to break
it and tear it off that.

Narrator: If they manage
to pull concordia free

from that rocky grip,

the next problem is the
sheer weight of the wreck.

The ship sank with
unused food and supplies

for all 4,200 people on board.

Sloane must factor
all of this weight,

along with that
of the actual ship,

into the force required to
raise her from the sea floor.

Nick: The moment she lifts up,

all the weight gets transferred
onto the starboard bilge keel,

and that weight
wants to crush the ship.

It is not designed to
take that sort of load.

With all the internal
furniture, the dining rooms...

Everything's fallen
down to the lower side

and absorbed water.

All the passengers'
hand luggage,

carpets, mattresses...

Everything's absorbed water

and fallen over to the
starboard side of the shell,

so that makes it more difficult

because we're not sure exactly
where the center of gravity is.

Narrator: Nick and his team
must plan for both known

and unforeseeable trouble.

They designed a steel platform

to be the concordia's
new level resting site,

hoping to prevent the ship
from sliding into the abyss.

Nick believes this will keep
the middle of the wreck...

Her weakest point...

From collapsing
during the rotation.

Remotely operated
vehicles, or rovs,

with high-resolution cameras,

have been Nick's eyes

during the installation
of the platform.

Tomorrow, they'll provide
real-time underwater monitoring

during the parbuckling.

The moment of truth
is just hours away.

Will Nick Sloane's
grand and extreme plan

for raising the
concordia succeed?

Or will the fragile
wreck break in two,

creating an
environmental disaster?

Since the wreck of
the costa concordia

in January 2012,

the tiny island of giglio,
off Italy's tuscan coast,

has been transformed into
a hub of engineering muscle.

[People speaking Italian]

[Beeping]

Porto giglio's population
of 500 has doubled,

due to the huge salvage team
that works around the clock.

There's activity in the
harbor day and night.

Next to the battered
and broken concordia

is a floating dormitory,

where most of the
hundreds of workers live.

The 18 months of effort will
culminate in the ultimate test,

in just 24 hours.

If the parbuckle succeeds,

then life will slowly
return to normal

on the sleepy Italian island.

But if the ship breaks apart,

this part of the mediterranean

will be an environmental
disaster zone.

The concordia already
shows signs of disintegration,

so the salvage crew
knows it's now or never.

Nick heads out
for one final check

before tomorrow's big event.

The ballast tanks have
been precisely adjusted

to control the water
intake and outflow

critical in the operation.

Computers that control
the holdback Jacks

have been tested.

22 massive chains

and the steel cables
that encircle the wreck

are securely in place.

And the powerful hydraulic Jacks
on the seaward side are ready.

All of the engineering
machinery is poised for action.

Man: So, Nick, are we
ready? Nick: We're ready.

Narrator: Nick Sloane has the
weight of the world on his shoulders,

but he doesn't let it show.

Nick: Final checks

are going to take up
the tension this evening,

and then get ready
for the morning...

Reporter: How do you feel?

Nick: Good. Very good.

Very confident.

Narrator: Media
from around the world

have descended on the
narrow streets of giglio

for the big event.

[Man speaking Italian]

Nick: Mostly the weather.

Narrator: Sloane
has reason to worry,

because offshore,
it's getting ugly quickly.

Violent electrical storms

are common in the
mediterranean during Autumn,

and this one looks menacing.

5:45 A.M.

The raising of the
costa concordia

is set to start.

But the rain and lightning

have knocked out the
entire electronics system.

One of the control
panels has short-circuited.

These electronics
are the only way

Nick can control the
Jacks and buoyancy tanks.

The disaster threatens
to delay or even end

the project before it begins.

But Sloane is a
meticulous planner.

His team has back-up
ready to install.

While the crew makes the switch,

a barge moves the portable
control room into place.

Nick Sloane heads
out to take command.

Swapping out the circuit boards
has caused a three-hour delay,

but now they're ready.

With a simple twirl of his
hand, Nick signals, "let's do it."

It's 9:00 A.M.

After millions of hours
from hundreds of experts,

the fate of the concordia

is now in the hands
of twelve people.

Nick: Go down to
the touchdown point.

Ok, do we synchronize
our watches?

0859. What's your time?

0900 hours.

Narrator: They will scrutinize
every second of the parbuckle.

But their ears are just
as important as their eyes

at this early stage.

Underwatericrophones

will pick up the
battered ship's sounds

as the Jacks start to lift her.

A loud groan would be
the first sign of trouble.

Nick: We're at 2,200
and we're going up...

Narrator: 36 hydraulic Jacks
start to tighten the cables.

Tons of pulling
capacity go to work.

The raising of concordia begins.

But while all eyes and
ears in the command center

are focused on the ship,

another group back on shore

is monitoring the
progress in a different way,

using technologies that
can literally see into the ship.

Man: These yellow
elements are the Jacks,

and we can see they
are a yellow color,

meaning a higher temperature.

So the parbuckling has started.

Narrator: Dr. Nicola casagli

is a geology professor at
the university of Florence.

Dr. Nicola casagli: We can
move to the next installation.

Narrator: His team
rushed to the wreck site

a mere four days
after the accident,

deploying high-end laser
and infrared cameras.

They've been monitoring it
continuously every hour since.

They're used to
analyzing volcanoes,

but their expertise
will help ensure

the parbuckle proceeds safely.

Casagli: Here there is a
3-dimensional laser scanner

and a thermal camera.

Narrator: The lasers detect
every movement of the wreck,

and the data is sent
to the Italian authorities

and to Sloane.

As the rotation puts extreme
stress on the concordia,

they're able to see any
deformation to the ship

in real time.

Casagli: The white
elements is a point.

For each point we know
exactly the topographical position.

Narrator: They check 3
million points on the ship

simultaneously.

At first, progress is
invisible to the naked eye,

but a monumental force

is rotating the
concordia's massive frame.

Every member of the team

is scouring the incoming
data for any signs of trouble.

If the wreck starts to
twist or break apart,

they may have only
seconds to react.

The Jacks are straining to
pull the ship off the rocks.

Nick: But until we
actually see her lift,

we won't know
what that force is.

So that's the unknown factor.

The higher that gets,
the more nervous we get.

We got up to 4,000 tons,
5,000 tons, 6,000 tons.

Narrator: Then, Nick
sees a serious problem.

With growing alarm,
he realizes the Jacks

are already over 65%
of their maximum power.

They're at more than 6,500,

and still the ship won't budge.

Man: Channel 7.

Narrator: For a
heart-stopping moment,

Nick fears the concordia is
permanently stuck on the rocks.

Finally, at 6,800 tons...

Movement.

The ship has pulled free.

Nick: People were
pretty quiet there

because that was now on
the more pessimistic side

of the way we were
expecting it to be,

but at 6,800, then she came up.

Narrator: The
university team on land

confirms that the
ship is slowly rotating,

and just as important,

all parts of the ship
are moving together.

Casagli: The
rotation is going well

because all the points show
the same amount of displacement.

So the ship is moving
like a rigid body,

without internal deformation.

Everything is going smooth.

Narrator: Tourists and
press hold a collective breath

while unseen but powerful forces
slowly raise the massive ship.

But Sloane's team still
has a long way to go

before they are
assured of success.

The massive shipwreck
could break apart at any time.

In theory, everything has
been taken into consideration:

The weight of the ship,

the 400,000 tons
of water inside...

Even the force when
that water runs out.

And the friction from
pulling up and off the rocks.

Lasers show all is
going as planned.

[Man speaking Italian]

If onlookers expect
instant drama,

they're disappointed.

But Nick's team has
to go slow and steady

if they have any hope
of keeping the ship intact.

After an hour, the ship has
rotated less than one degree.

Nick: We say one hour
to break her off the rock,

another 5 1/2 to 6 hours to
get to where gravity takes over,

one hour to drop her
to the 10-degree level,

and then another hour just
to put her on the platform

as gently as possible.

Casagli: I have new data.

We are at 2 degrees
and a half now.

They are proceeding
very quickly.

I give you in inches.

35 inch.

10 inch per hour.

Narrator: Thermal
cameras and radar reveal

that all of the steel cables

are turning at exactly
the same speed

as they pull the concordia.

Now the pace of the parbuckle
increases to 2 degrees per hour,

and the gruesome
sea-logged side of the ship

slowly emerges.

The algae-darkened
hull is exposed to air

for the first time in
almost two years.

Just when success seems certain,

Sloane's vital monitors
suddenly go blank.

[Indistinct conversation]

Without the input from
cameras throughout the ship,

Nick's team is working blind.

Sloane can't solve the problem,

and he can't even
see what's wrong.

Nick: Yeah, please can
you request to rov pilot...

[Buzzing]

Narrator: The team launches
a small camera drone

to investigate.

At this critical stage
of the parbuckle,

they must fix this problem,

or the salvage
operation can't continue.

The raising of the
costa concordia

has hit a snag,

and it could be a fatal one.

Critical monitors are down.

The drone shows
that steel cables

have become twisted
with the data lines.

The operation can't continue

unless they can get these
vital monitors working.

Sloane sends a crew
out to the unstable wreck

to fix the problem.

The news is mixed...

They can see and
correct the problem,

but it will cost the
operation at least an hour,

and the longer the
ship is frozen in place,

the greater danger
it could break apart.

Finally, they manage to
restore the electronic feed.

Nick hits restart.

Nick: Yeah, just confirm all
personnel off the concordia.

[Indistinct radio chatter]

Nick: Ok, we're going up 10%.

Narrator: For
residents on shore,

watching the costa
concordia slowly emerge

brings back the
horror of the disaster.

It could have been even worse.

One local, settimo butelli,

saw the concordia
barreling toward the island

on January 13, 2012.

He describes how
wind and currents

swung the mortally
wounded ship around

and pushed it
toward giglio's harbor,

instead of out to sea.

Settimo, translated: It was a
miracle because if the wind,

instead of blowing
from the east,

it came from the south,

the ship would have
gone into open waters,

and they would all be dead.

Narrator: For stefania Vincenzi,

the raising of the concordia is
a last hope to find her mother,

who is missing
and presumed dead.

Stefania and her father, elio,

are still haunted by
the events of that night.

As they desperately
sought a way off the ship,

her mother decided to return
to their cabin for a lifejacket.

Stefania: I said, "no,
you can't go to the cabin,"

but she continued to
insist, so I grabbed her arm.

She said, "I need to
get a lifejacket for Louisa

because she doesn't
know how to swim."

When she went down the
stairs, I looked at her and she said,

"come on, I'll give you a kiss."

I said "go! Give
me the kiss later."

Mama turned to go down
the steps and smiled,

and she disappeared.

Narrator: Stefania never
saw her mother again.

While they don't know exactly
what happened to Maria,

they suspect she became
trapped when the ship tipped over.

Stefania: Here's where
people disembarked before us,

and they were given blankets.

The ship was still not
completely inclined.

Elio, translated: I
never understood

why there were no images
of the last collapse of the boat

when mama died.

How is it possible that
no one filmed the moment?

Plus, she knew how to swim well.

She was a very good swimmer.

Stefania: Possibly...
i don't know.

It could be that
she was trapped,

that she couldn't get out,

and water came in.

Narrator: Both
she and her father

hope for closure once
the concordia is upright

and divers can search for Maria.

Night falls,

but they must go on.

The hull has been
under extreme loads

longer than planned,

and structural failure is
just around the corner.

Under halogen work lights,

a giant cave of shredded metal

slowly emerges from
the inky black water.

Deck by deck,

the corpse of the
wreck slowly emerges

throughout the long night.

At 4:00 A.M.,

19 long hours after
he launched the effort,

the concordia is
upright and secure

on the underwater platforms.

[Horns blow]

Ships' horns
announce the victory

to the waiting press and
the residents of giglio.

[Applause and cheering]

The salvage master
finally heads to shore.

Man: Bravo!

Nick: With the rainstorm

and everything we
had the night before,

there were some challenges.

Electronics on
board got wiped out.

So, yeah, those things
happen in salvage.

So there's been no gas,
there's been no pollution.

She's completely upright.

Reporter: How do you feel
now? Nick: A lot of relief.

Reporter: What
is your next step?

Nick: Well, we're going
to have a beer tonight,

or this morning.

Man: Nick, congratulations!

Nick: Thanks, man.
Man: You are the best!

[Applause]

Narrator: The wrecked
concordia is now afloat.

But the job isn't over.

Police must now search
for Maria grazia trecarichi

and the young
waiter, Russell rubello,

whose bodies may
still be trapped inside.

Dawn reveals

how much this once glorious,
luxury cruise ship has changed.

In the costa
concordia's glory days,

a week-long mediterranean cruise

would cost several
hundred dollars, or more.

Now that the extent of
her damage is revealed,

it seems like a miracle that
so many escaped that night.

From deck 6 upward,

the ship is water-free,
but waterlogged.

And 10 decks still
remain underwater.

While the salvage team
stabilizes the great ship,

the other tough work begins.

The destroyed cruise
ship is a crime scene.

The cavernous wreck
must be searched

for remains of two people.

A team of 80 divers

begins a meticulous,
room-by-room search

within the flooded ship.

[Diver speaking Italian]

Diver, translated: In
all rescue missions,

the scene is in command.

In the case of the
costa concordia,

in the beginning we were
dealing with a surreal scene,

never imagined by
the workers and divers.

Narrator: Finally, on day 14,

a diver finds a body.

Diver: Once the diver
entered the passageway

to conduct an
exploration of the ship,

he found himself in
very difficult conditions.

On the starboard side,
he identified the 31st victim.

Narrator: The diver
has found Maria grazia.

The exact details of
what happened to her

remain unclear,

but water had swept
stefania's mother

to a place on the
ship far from her cabin.

Diver: She took the
staircase toward the stern

and arrived at the kitchen.

Unfortunately, there,

evidently the water
arrived with great force

and transported the
body to where we found it.

Narrator: Maria's husband and
daughter finally have closure,

but they're tormented

by what they imagine
to be her final moments.

Elio: There must have been
that last second, at the end,

when she thought, "I am dying."

And this leaves me
with incredible anguish.

Narrator: But stefania feels
that her mother is at peace.

Stefania: I'm happy
she is back home.

She loved the sea so much,

and in some way,

the sea cradled her
for two years now.

It isn't something that
made me hate the sea.

I will continue to love the sea.

It reminds me of her.

Narrator: The police divers

still hope to find
Russell rubello,

but so far, he remains missing.

With the concordia
upright again,

the most dangerous part
of the operation is over.

Nick: Good day. How are you?

Narrator: But the salvage
team must push forward

before winter
arrives in full force.

Man: I didn't realize
how big it was

until it actually got
turned over, I don't think.

Nick: There's
still two-thirds...

Two-thirds are still underneath.

Man: Can't imagine.

Nick: More than 10
stories underneath there.

Man: Yeah, yeah.

Nick: The aft and
back, two, two minutes...

Just to the stern and back.

Narrator: The wreck
is still unstable,

so they will
proceed with caution.

Nick: So almost about
there, just by the l or the o,

that whole frame...

Man: Just take that
off all the way up.

Nick: All the way up.

Narrator: Nick plans to
reinforce the damaged sections

and add 19 more floats before
they attempt to tow her away.

By July 2014, deck
3 will be at water level

and six decks will
remain underwater.

Nick: They're almost back
to where there's red paint,

just where the buckle's up.

Man: Then we go along here...

Nick: So we've got
some major cracks

that have come up from
the parbuckling operation.

Narrator: The parbuckle has
exposed new holes in the hull,

and there's more
backbreaking work ahead

to ready the ship
for her slow tug crawl

to her final dock in the summer,

where she'll be
broken up for scrap.

Nick: We'll clean up all
the areas that you see.

The car crash, the dimples,

get back to the
structure of the ship.

And she'll be ready for
spring to start adding sponsons

and then do the refloat.

By the time she's
refloated and delivered

will be time go home.

Narrator: Soon, the
island's view will be restored.

But even after the
concordia is gone,

no one will ever
forget the disaster

and the 32 who died.

The raising of the
costa concordia,

after two years and
millions of man-hours,

remains a testament to
the courage of the survivors,

the skill of the salvage crew,

and the legacy of a
once-great cruise ship.