Cruise Ship Sinks Off Italy

Jan 16 2021 Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia carrying more than 4000 people ran aground and keeled over off the Italian coast near the island of Giglio Pictures of cruise ship sinking off coast of Costa Concordia disaster Wikipedia.

Cruise ship sinks off italy. 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 an Italian cruise ship which grounded and capsized in January 2012 killing at least 32 people SS Heraklion a Greek car ferry which capsized and sank in the Aegean Sea in 1966. By ortiveztm on January 26 2012.

Francesco Schettino were charged with various crimes. ROME An Italian court on Wednesday convicted the captain of a cruise liner that capsized in 2012 killing 32 people of manslaughter and sentenced him to just over 16 years in prison for his role. A trainee officer on board the Costa Concordia when it sank off an Italian island last year told a court Monday that the captain did not fall off the stricken liner on to a lifeboat as he claims but jumped to safety.

Ship may remain for up to a year. 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 Costa Concordia Sinks off Italian Coast VIDEO AIS Track Earlier.

Rescuers were painstakingly checking thousands of cabins on the Italian. Several of the ships crew notably Capt. The cruise ship Costa Concordia with more than 4000 people on board hits rocks and sinks off the Italian island of Giglio.

MS Mikhail Lermontov a Soviet cruise ship which ran aground on well-charted rocks and subsequently sank in the Marlborough Sounds New Zealand in 1986 under similar. 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. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died.

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. The captain of a doomed luxury liner that struck a reef off the coast of Italy faces charges he abandoned his ship leaving passengers and crew behind in the sinking wreckage. Posted on January 14 2012 by cruisewithmike.