Discovery Channel (DStv 121) will broadcast Inside Raising Concordia in December in South Africa in December as a TV special on DStv, as cameras from the factual entertainment channel captured the most expensive and daunting salvage operation of a boat at sea ever attempted.
The large cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on 13 January 2012 with the hulking vessel which remained where it first capsized and where 32 people died, until earlier this week when a massive recover attempt and salvage operation took place.
Discovery Channel returned to the scene of the shipwreck with Inside Raising Concordia to capture the massive undertaking and to reveal the inside story as told by the elite team of engineers tasked with the almost impossible operation - to rotate the massive ship into an upright position and to remove it from the sea.
Inside Raising Concordia will be shown in 220 countries and territories in December as a one hour TV special. It will show how engineers prepared for the job which included building colossal barges complete with a hospital, gym and living quarters for the hundreds of divers and specialists working on site.
It will also reveal the step-by-step process involved with pulling the ship upright - a process known as "parbuckling" before the ship is refloated and towed away to be scrapped. Inside Raising Concordia will include insiders' accounts of what exactly happened in one of the cruise line industry's biggest disasters.
