2014 Cruise Ship Accidents
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2014 cruise ship accidents. Preliminary reports suggest the ferry made a sharp turn causing cargo to shift. April 14 2014 Ship. 17 miles off Gwanmae IslandSouth Korea Incident.
Former captain of the Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino speaks with reporters after being aboard the ship with the team of experts inspecting the wreck on February 27 2014 in Isola del Giglio. BASSETERRE St Kitts - Two men tragically lost their lives in an accident involving Royal Caribbeans Independence of the Seas on StKitts on Wednesday April 2 2014. In 2012 30 people were killed in the costliest man-made disaster of that year when the Costa Concordia cruise ship carrying 4200 passengers went aground off the coast of Italy causing 515 million in insured damages losses when it occurred.
Fact is that in only 1 year period Oct 2007 through Oct 2008 the FBI received from Carnival Cruise Lines alone a total of 93 reports on sex-related crimes on cruise ships. Celebrity Cruise Lines is the fancy little sister cruise line to RCCL. In the period 2012-2014 a total of 74 rapes on cruise ships and a total of 29 assault crime cases involving serious body injuries were officially reported.
The eight-year-old Costa Cruises vessel was on the first leg of a cruise. By mid-2014 insured losses for the disaster had risen to about 2 billion. The 6825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 27 kilometres 17 mi north of Byeongpungdo at 0858 KST 2358 UTC.
During a period of 3 years a single cruise ship with an average of 700 passengers per trip was studied by the NCBI and they reported the following statistics from their on-ship medical team. Cruise ship safety is in fact excellent with only 16 fatalities out of more than 100 million passengers worldwide for the years 2005 to 2012 Carne 2012. Matt StroshaneDisney Cruise Line.
More on This Story Cruise disaster. On September 22 2014 after leaving homeport Venice Italy Sept 21 on 7-day Eastern Mediterranean Greek Isles cruise the vessel encountered rough weather in the Mediterranean Sea with tornado-force winds exceeding 100 mph 165 kph. As of May 6 2014 264 are confirmed dead and 38 people are still missing.
