Concordia Cruise Ship Crash

When the cruise liner Costa Concordia crashed and sank in 2012 32 people tragically lost their lives.

Concordia cruise ship crash. The Concordia on a week-long Mediterranean cruise speared a jagged granite reef when prosecutors allege Schettino steered the ship too close to Giglios rocky shores as. Costa Concordia cruise ship crash. 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.

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. The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans after it ran aground off the coast of the Isola del Giglio island Italy early Saturday January 14 2012. Several of the ships crew notably.

Now half a decade on the wreckage of the tragic ship is. The Legacy of the Costa Concordia Disaster by Elias Rudnikas. 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.

CNNs Tom Foreman explains how the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia went down. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. The vessel carrying 4252 people met a tragic end in January 2012 when it hit an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio near Tuscany.

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. Between 14 and 30 January 2012 rescue divers searched within the ship for missing people and recovered most of the bodies. 33 people died as a result from the accident including 32 passengers and crew and one salvage member.

AP PhotoGiglionewsit Giorgio Fanciulli. Just why did the accident happen though. It is generally understood that the captain is the ultimate authority of any vessel and is expected by the general public to put the well-being of his or her passengers first by being the last to leave a sinking ship.