Italian Cruise Ship Wreck

More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died.

Italian cruise ship wreck. A profile of 52-year-old Italian cruise liner captain Francesco Schettino jailed for manslaughter for his role in the Costa Concordia maritime disaster in January 2012. Missing Grows to 29 Six are reported dead and the captain is due in court Tuesday. The ship also crashed into a smaller vessel with 110 people on boardREAD MORE.

Search crews found five more bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship which struck a reef off an Italian island in January officials said on Thursday. Competition from jet airliners had not yet had a huge impact in the Mediterranean area and jobs were needed for Italian sailors and shipyard workers so constructing new superliners seemed like an attractive idea to Italian Line executives. The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy Italian news agency Ansa said 4165 out of the 4234 people on-board were safe but did.

The Rex was conceived as a dual-purpose luxury passenger ship for both Atlantic voyages and pleasure cruises. By KEVIN DOLAK LAMA HASAN PHOEBE NATANSON and CLARK BENTSON. 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 employer is the guarantor and is. Italys shipwreck captain. Between September 1932 and May 1940 she completed 202 crossings and three cruises.

The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been successfully raised from the under-sea platform it has been resting on for the past year salvage workers say. Schettino the captain of the Italian cruise liner that ran aground off Italys west coast was arrested on the charges of multiple manslaughter causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship police said. Her tourist class accommodation designed with the American middle classes in mind gave a substantial boost to the Italian tourist trade.

Italian Cruise Ship Wreck. A man who spent his honeymoon on the Costa Concordia is now part of a team dismantling the cruise ship wreck two and a half years after it was holed and sank off Italy. Many famous naval disasters happen far out at sea but on January 13 2012 the Costa Concordia wrecked just off the coast of an Italian island in relatively shallow water.