Costa Concordia righted
The operation to set the Costa Concordia on its keel has succeeded, after taking all of Monday and most of the night.
The ship was declared completely upright shortly after 2am GMT on Tuesday.
Engineers had planned to complete the operation by Monday evening, but it had to be delayed by three hours because of a storm
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