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From shipwreck in Italy, a treasure now beckons (AP)

FILE In this undated photo released by the Italian Navy Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, scuba divers inspect the Costa Concordia cruise ship grounded off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. A veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the massive cruise liner ran aground last month. In the chaotic evacuation of more than 4,200 people from the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects and even 300-year-old woodcut prints by a Japanese master. (AP Photo/Italian Navy GOS handout)AP - In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.


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