Concordia Cruise Ship Crash
Several of the ships crew notably.
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. As the 26th largest passenger ship in the world its 13 passenger decks are stacked on a vessel nearly 1000 ft long and 100ft high above the water. 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.
We chart the. CNNs Tom Foreman explains how the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia went down. When the ship ran aground off the cost of Italy 4200 passengers and crew members were forced to evacuate.
More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. AP PhotoGiglionewsit Giorgio Fanciulli. 33 people died as a result from the accident including 32 passengers and crew and one salvage member.
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. Even the Costa Concordia is no minnow. Costa Concordia cruise ship crash.
Technicians pass in a small boat near the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia lying aground in front of the Isola del Giglio on January 26 2012 after hitting underwater rocks on January 13. Just why did the accident happen though. The vessel carrying 4252 people met a tragic end in January 2012 when it hit an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio near Tuscany.
The wreck - the target of. The wreck of Italys Costa Concordia cruise ship begins to emerge from water on September 17 2013 near the harbour of Giglio Porto. 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.
