buckling

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“We jumped up and down in happiness when the parbuckling was completed,” Mr. Cedioli remembered.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2022

The 950-foot-long, 114,000-ton vessel was impaled on underwater granite outcrops until being righted last September in a painstaking, 19-hour operation called parbuckling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2014

The Costa Condordia has been raised using a process called "parbuckling".

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2013

But once the parbuckling process begins, there is no turning back, Sloane says.

From Newsweek • Jan. 13, 2013

Sloane estimates that his crew will be able to roll the ship to an upright position, a maneuver known as parbuckling, by the first week of July if the weather cooperates.

From Newsweek • Jan. 13, 2013