Final preparations are being made to raise the Costa Concordia from the rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio, in a €600 million salvage mission, almost two years after the liner capsized and killed 32 people.

An international team of hundreds of engineers and mechanics have been working on the site for over a year to complete the project - one of the biggest marine salvage operations in history.

Known as parbuckling, the operation to raise the 114,000-tonne ship, which is the length of three football pitches, will be carried out tomorrow. 

Today inflatable pollution barriers have been put up around the wreck and along the shoreline to try and hold back any debris or oil that will spew from the innards of the Concordia.

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