Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This documentary chronicles the most ambitious maritime salvage operation ever attempted: the recovery of the Costa Concordia. After the massive cruise liner capsized off the island of Giglio in 2012, senior salvage master Nick Sloan led a team of 800 specialists to perform the Parbuckling, a high-stakes engineering maneuver to pull the 114,500-ton wreck upright.

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