Italian Cruise Ship Wreck
When the 114137-ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130000 GT Dream-class cruise ships.
Italian cruise ship wreck. The Rex was conceived as a dual-purpose luxury passenger ship for both Atlantic voyages and pleasure cruises. The Italian news media portrayed the salvage as a chance for Italy to revamp its image after the wreck in which the captain fled the damaged ship and the evacuation was chaotic. 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.
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. 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. Italys shipwreck captain.
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 mayor of Venice has said cruise ships must change their routes after a huge holiday vessel crashed into a. The Italian captain of the cruise ship that ran aground -- killing three people and injuring 20 more -- was arrested late Saturday and is being investigated for manslaughter and abandoning ship said a local prosecutor in Grosetto.
Several of the ships crew notably. Her tourist class accommodation designed with the American middle classes in mind gave a substantial boost to the Italian tourist trade. 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.
On 13 January 2012 at 2145 Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio. Between September 1932 and May 1940 she completed 202 crossings and three cruises. The employer is the guarantor and is.
By KEVIN DOLAK LAMA HASAN PHOEBE NATANSON and CLARK BENTSON. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. Italian Cruise Ship Wreck.
