

Constant high water has been eroding the city of Venice for decades. The plan to build a surge barrier against the tides that cause the so-called “Acqua Alta” has been underway for nearly forty years but only now is the massive 7-billion-euro surge barrier nearing completion.

An in-depth look at the complex heavy lift process of taking an old ship cutting it in half and stretching it – an operation called Jumboisation increasingly common as the demand in the lucrative cruise industry for bigger ships that can haul more and more passengers.