What Happened To The Cruise Ship That Sank In Italy

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Grosseto.

What happened to the cruise ship that sank in italy. 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 captain of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison. 17 2013 after a salvage crew rolled the ship.

Born 14 November 1960 is an Italian former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when it struck an underwater rock and capsized with the deaths of 32 passengers and crew off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012. The Italian captain went back onboard the wreck for the first time since the sinking of the cruise ship on January 13 2012 as part of his trial. The captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino takes place for his trial on July 9 2013 in Grosseto.

Schettino denied the charges and said he was being made a. The Italian ship which crashed January 13 2012 off the coast of Italy after hitting a rock was a tragedy that captured international headlines. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died.

Typically cruise ships that sink are those sailing in inhospitable waters like the Antarctic Ocean or ships belonging to smaller lines. In 2013 the New York Times did a study and found that between 1980 and 2012 16 cruise ships have sunk with most being in inhospitable waters doing adventure cruises such as visiting Antarctica or smaller vessels that got caught in sudden storms such as the Estona which sank in 1994 killing more than 800 people in the Baltic Sea. The Times notes that from 1980 to 2012 about 16 cruise ships have sunk.

Several of the ships crew notably Capt. The ship is being towed to. The captain of the Costa Concordia the cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of Italy in 2012 killing 32.

In 2015 he was sentenced to sixteen years in prison for his role in. Francesco Schettino had handed himself in to the. A sixth body has been found in the wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off the coast of TuscanySubscribe.