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A picture taken on September 17, 2013 shows the wreck of Italy’s Costa Concordia cruise ship which begins to emerge from water near the harbour of Giglio Porto. Salvage operators in Italy lifted the Costa Concordia cruise ship upright from its watery grave off the island of Giglio on Tuesday in the biggest ever project of its kind. 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. AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO