Cruise Ship Sinks Off Italy

The captain of the ill-fated cruise ship may have made significant errors that led to wreck the cruise line said late Sunday.

Cruise ship sinks off italy. The cruise ship Costa Concordia with more than 4000 people on board hits rocks and sinks off the Italian island of Giglio. Word is out that the cruiseship COSTA CONCORDIA went aground Friday night. The ship was heading out on a week-long cruise around the Mediterranean with 3206 passengers and 1023 crew onboard.

13 when the ship struck a reef off the Italian coast and ran aground at isola del giglio Tuscany causing an evacuation for the 4197 passengers on board. From 1980 to 2012 about 16 ships have sunk. Several of the ships crew notably Capt.

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. 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. Cruise Ship takes on water off the coast of Italy Cruise ship sinks news.

Cruise Ship Sinks Off of the Italian Coast. The ship is being towed to a port in Genoa Italy. Disaster struck the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia on Jan.

Upon departure from the port of a Giglio an island off the northwestern coast of Italy the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef tearing a 50 meter-long gash in her hull. Costa Concordia the Italian cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy in January 2012 is finally leaving her resting place. Italian cruises set sail for the first time in four months after the pandemic sunk the industry The flagship Costa Smeralda set off from the port of Savona after being landbound since December when.

We found a lifeboat. Francesco Schettino were charged with various crimes. Friday evenings capsizing of the Costa Cruise Ship Concordia after it apparently had run aground merely hours after leaving port in Civitavecchia Rome at approximately 930pm local time.