Officials expect to move the stranded Costa Concordia cruise ship off Italy's Giglio Island in June Reuters reported.
Further issues could delay the ship's rescue further into July according to information from Franco Gabriell, supervisor of the rescue Reuters reported. Weather could also hinder on-time recovery efforts Reuters reported.
"We are very confident we can remove the ship from the island within the month of June," Michael Thamm, CEO of Costa Crociere said in a statement at a news conference Reuters reported.
"During the next tourist season on the island the ship will be gone," Environment Minister Andrea Orlando told Reuters.
Thirty-two people perished when the cruise ship banged into a reef and flipped over after the liner's captain directed the ship too close to Giglio Island Jan. 13, 2012 Reuters reported. The latest engineering project didn't turn up any evidence of two bodies that were never recovered.
Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ship, is currently standing trial for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning ship Reuters reported.
According to Fox News, engineer Sergio Girotto previously said images from underwater cameras showed the ship's side of the hull that was in the water endured "great deformation" because it sat on the reef for a long time, and was beaten by waves and flattened under the ship's 115,000 ton weight.
Initial plans for the hull's removal called for would have moved the ship three degrees vertically leaving the vessel roughly 62 degrees of being able to become upright Fox News reported.
The shift was small, but significant enough for it to be visible as the part of hull which was underwater, was covered in slime, and able to be seen above the waterline. Engineers thought the ship's removal was originally going to take up to 12 hours, and were prepared to work into the nighttime hours Fox News reported.
