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The BBC's Matthew Price, on the ferry to Giglio, gets a close-up view of the scene
The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been successfully raised from the under-sea platform it has been resting on for the past year, salvage workers say.
The wreck - the target of the one of the biggest maritime salvage operations in history - is now floating about 1m (3ft) off the platform.
In all, the refloating operation is expected to take six or seven days.
The ship will then be towed to its home port, Genoa, where it will be scrapped.
The Concordia struck a reef off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people.
Workers are slowly lifting the vessel by pumping air into tanks attached to the ship.
The wreck was hauled upright in September but was still partially submerged, resting on six steel platforms.
"The ship is upright and is not listing either longitudinally or latitudinally. This is extremely positive," the engineer in charge of the salvage, Franco Porcellacchia, told a news conference.
A search for the remains of Indian waiter Russel Rebello, whose body was not recovered from the wreck, will be carried out after the vessel is moved.
The Costa Concordia's owners, Costa Crociere, estimate the operation to remove the wreck from the reef and tow it for scrapping will cost 1.5bn euros (£1.2bn; $2bn) in total.
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How the disaster happened
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Earlier this month, police divers released underwater footage of the wreck
An engineer with Costa Crociere, the cruise operator, described the salvage efforts as "unprecedented".
"As with anything being done for the first time, there are risks. But we are confident," Franco Porcellacchia said.
Hundreds of divers and engineers have been involved in operations to salvage the Concordia, which is twice the size of the Titanic.
Local residents have said they are glad the wreckage will be removed.
"I am happy they are taking it away because to see a ship like that always there, with the deaths that happened, it gives us the shivers," Italo Arienti told Reuters news agency.
The captain, Francesco Schettino, is on trial for manslaughter and abandoning ship, charges he denies.
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