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Crews Resume Work on Sunken Cruise Ship

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After days of bad weather, calmer seas allowed operations to resume at the cruise liner which lies half-submerged off the shore of Italy.

A salvage barge attached to the Concordia wreck late on this morning.

More than 2,300 tons of diesel need to be pumped out of that ship.

Salvage master for the Dutch recovery firm SMIT says thing are going according to plan.

Bart Huizing says, "We will continue with the pumping 24 hours a day and as I said before, things are looking very good."

The operation is expected to take between three weeks and a month.