16 Cruise Ships Have Sunk Since 1980
16 April 1980 Ship Country Description Florence D United States.
16 cruise ships have sunk since 1980. Of the 4200 passengers and crew onboard there were 32 casualties. But only a few of those were cruise ships. Ferry Neptune Sank on 16 February 1993.
October 21 1988 near Piraeus Greece. Mar 29 2019 The New York Times notes however that only 16 were cruise ships that have sunk between 1980 to 2012. Sinking When the Costa Concordia a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation partly sank last year off Giglio Italy killing 32 people after hitting a submerged rock it was one of the first times a cruise ship had done so since the Explorer in 2007.
Ship sank in 40 minutes. Francesco Schettino decided to put the ship in a very tight spot so that a member of his crew could wave at someone. What was supposed to be a four-day jaunt to the Caribbean became.
According to his statistics 16 cruise ships have sunk since 1980 99 have run aground since 1973 79 have experienced onboard fires since 1990 and 73 have had collisions since 1990. Cruise Junkie reports that dozens of passenger ships sunk between 1979 and 2013 according primarily to reports by English-language news sources. According to cruise enthusiast Robert A.
The chances of your cruise ship capsizing or sinking are infinitesimally rare. In this first piece we cover the ships lost between the years 2008-2011. Sinking When the Costa Concordia a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation partly sank last year off Giglio Italy killing 32 people after hitting a submerged rock it was one of the first times a cruise ship had done so since the Explorer in 2007.
They tend to be ships that sail in inhospitable waters like the Antarctic Ocean or ships that belong to smaller lines. The Times notes that from 1980 to 2012 about 16 cruise ships have sunk. Also to know how many cruise ships sink a year.
