Concordia Cruise Ship Crash

Costa Concordia cruise ship to be scrapped It took one small act of incompetence to wreck the cruise ship but its taken 25 years and about 1 billion to get to the point of refloating the wreck.

Concordia cruise ship crash. AP PhotoGiglionewsit Giorgio Fanciulli. On 13 January 2012 whilst the Costa Concordia was in navigation in the Mediterranean Sea Tyrrhenian sea Italian coastline with 4229 persons on board 3206 passengers and 1023 crewmembers in favourable meteo-marine conditions at 21 45 07 LT local time the ship suddenly collided with the Scole Rocks at the Giglio Island. Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

The wreck - the target of. Cruise Ship Safety. When the ship ran aground off the cost of Italy 4200 passengers and crew members were forced to evacuate.

The wreck of Italys Costa Concordia cruise ship begins to emerge from water on September 17 2013 near the harbour of Giglio Porto. ROME -- Italian Captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty today for causing the fatal shipwreck of the Costa Concordia and sentenced to 16 years in prison according to a three-judge panel. Men pushed past women and children to reach lifeboats.

When the cruise liner Costa Concordia crashed and sank in 2012 32 people tragically lost their lives. Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Accident Perhaps one of the most prolific and horrendous cruise ship accidents in recent memory was the January 2012 sinking of the Costa Concordia. The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans after it ran aground off the coast of the Isola del Giglio island Italy early Saturday January 14 2012.

CNNs Tom Foreman explains how the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia went down. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. We chart the.

The vessel carrying 4252 people met a tragic end in January 2012 when it hit an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio near Tuscany. Thirty-two people died after the Costa Concordia cruis ship ran aground with more than 4000 passengers and crew on 13 January 2012 only hours after leaving the Italian port of Civitavecchia. It is generally understood that the captain is the ultimate authority of any vessel and is expected by the general public to put the well-being of his or her passengers first by being the last to leave a sinking ship.