Costa Concordia pulled free from reef

Salvage teams have succeeded in wresting the hull of the shipwrecked Concordia from the Italian reef where it has been embedded since it capsized in January last year.

Engineer Sergio Girotto said the crippled vessel would not budge for three hours after the operation to right it began.

After 6,000 tons of force were applied he said “we saw the detachment” using undersea cameras.

He said the cameras did not reveal any sign of two bodies that were never recovered from the 32 who died during the disaster.