"Costa Concordia Costa Concordia () was a built in 2004 by the Fincantieris Sestri Ponente yards in Italy and operated from 2005 until 2012 by Costa Crociere (a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation). It was wrecked off the coast of Isola del Giglio in Italy on 13 January 2012 due to a collision with a submerged rock; the ship capsized hours later and was subsequently declared a total loss. The ship's captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty of manslaughter; causing a maritime accident and abandoning ship. The wreck was salvaged and then towed to the port of Genoa where scrapping operations"
"Francesco Schettino Francesco Schettino (; born November 14, 1960 in Meta into a seafaring family) 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 January 13, 2012. Schettino attended the nautical institute Nino Bixio in Piano di Sorrento, then worked for the ferry company Tirrenia. In 2002 he was hired by Costa Crociere (Costa Cruises), a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation. Starting as an official in charge of security, he moved up to become"
"event, Avranas received extensive media coverage being often vilified and used as an example of wrong professional behaviour while in command. Avranas′s emergency management has been widely cited again after Costa Concordia disaster in 2012. Yiannis Avranas Yiannis Avranas (born ca. 1940) is a Greek former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship ""Oceanos"" when she sank off the Wild Coast of the Transkei, South Africa, on Sunday, August 4, 1991. In 1994, Avranas' British wife Davina published a book about the sinking, titled ""The Oceanos Tragedy"". At the time of the accident, Avranas had been an officer for 20"
"the wreck of the Costa Concordia 200 miles (320 kilometers) north from the island of Giglio over a period of five days, the ""Costa Concordia"" arrived in its home port of Genoa, Italy, for eventual scrapping. The total cost of the disaster is estimated to be over $2 billion, including $500 million for the loss of the ship and $1.5 billion for the salvage and recovery operations. On February 11, 2015, Captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty by an Italian court of multiple manslaughter, causing the shipwreck, and abandoning his passengers and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. An"
"second-in-command. In 2006 Schettino was promoted to captain and given command of the newly launched ""Costa Concordia"". In 2010 as captain of the ""Costa Atlantica"", he entered the port of Warnemünde, Germany, at too high a speed, allegedly causing damage to the ""AIDAblu"", also a Carnival Corporation ship. In 2014 he taught on a panic management course at Rome university. Schettino was the captain in charge of the ""Costa Concordia"" when it hit an underwater rock off Giglio on January 13, 2012, capsized, and 32 people lost their lives. He accepted some degree of responsibility and asked for forgiveness when"
"than three times the $612 million construction cost of the ship. Costa Cruises offered compensation to passengers (to a limit of €11,000 per person) to pay for all damages, including the value of the cruise. 65% of the survivors took the offer. ""Costa Concordia"" (call sign: IBHD, IMO number: 9320544, MMSI number: 247158500), with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, was sailing off Isola del Giglio on the night of 13 January 2012, having begun a planned seven-day cruise from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, to Savona and five other ports. She struck her port side on a reef, at"
"an eleven-day inaugural cruise departing from Venice with calls at Bari, Italy; Izmir and Istanbul, Turkey; Mykonos, Piraeus and Olympia, Greece; and Dubrovnik. For the 2011 summer season, ""Costa Favolosa"" sailed seven-day cruises from Venice and Bari to Olympia, Izmir, Istanbul and Dubrovnik before repositioning to Dubai for a series of winter cruises. As of 2018, the captain of the ""Costa Favolosa"" is Ciro Ambrosio who was the first officer aboard the Costa Concordia when it crashed in 2012. Costa Favolosa Costa Favolosa is a cruise ship ordered for Costa Crociere in October 2007. Based on the ""Concordia"" class design,"
"Costa Concordia disaster On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship ""Costa Concordia"" ran aground and overturned after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, resulting in 32 deaths. The eight year old Costa Cruises vessel was on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when she deviated from her planned route at the Isola del Giglio, sailed closer to the island, and struck a rock formation on the sea floor. A six-hour rescue effort resulted in most of the passengers being brought ashore. ""Costa Concordia"" was officially declared a ""constructive total loss"" by the"
"suffered from an electrical malfunction and has been stuck in dock at Cagliari Port, in Sardinia, Italy. The cause of the damage was blamed on a primary electrical generator. As no spare parts were available on time, the ship was unable to sail out to Civitavecchia leaving several passengers without booked flight connections. Costa Pacifica Costa Pacifica is a ""Concordia""-class cruise ship for Costa Crociere. She was handed over to Costa Crociere on 29 May 2009. Her sister ships, ""Costa Concordia"" and ""Costa Serena"", were launched in 2006 and in 2007, with ""Costa Favolosa"" and ""Costa Fascinosa"" launched in 2011"
"advent of the Costa Concordia incident of 2013. Even after the ship was but a blistered hull with most of her superstructure gone, he strongly believed she was salvageable. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and others in the war department felt the same way, but further inspections of her innovative hull nevertheless uncovered damages and other issues in the ship and made her beyond repair according to experts. The idea of putting the former ocean liner to sea as an aircraft carrier was also shelved. The ""Normandie""'s eventual scrapping in 1946 was said to have been understandably heartbreaking to Yourkevitch, as"
"side, creating problems in launching the lifeboats. The president of Costa Cruises, Gianni Onorato, said normal lifeboat evacuation became ""almost impossible"" because the ship listed so quickly. After the grounding, passengers and crew were taken ashore from the ship by lifeboats and helicopters or swam to the island, leaving about 40 people missing. Half of these were later found inside the ship, most of them deceased. In the first contact, made at 22:12, between Italian port officials and ""Costa Concordia"" after the impact on the reef, an unidentified officer on board the cruise ship insisted that she was suffering only"
"tore open a gash on the port side of her hull, which soon flooded parts of the engine room, cutting power from the engines and ship services. With water flooding in and the ship listing, she drifted back towards the island and grounded near shore, then rolled onto her starboard side, lying in an unsteady position on a rocky underwater ledge. The evacuation of ""Costa Concordia"" took over six hours and of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died. ""Costa Concordia"" was ordered in 2004 by Carnival Corporation from Fincantieri and built in the"
"and the lifeboat had 'stopped moving'. There is no reliable record of Schettino having returned to the Concordia. Prior to the event from January 13, 2012, Schettino had apparently given only one interview to the media, to the Czech newspaper ""Dnes"" in 2010. After the event, Schettino received extensive media coverage, being often vilified. He was dubbed ""Captain Coward"" and ""Captain Calamity"". Others in the press noted that he was a daredevil and prone to insubordination. Schettino was even described as ""Italy's most hated man"" by the tabloid press. At the end of his trial at Grosseto, Schettino said that"
"2017. In 2010, ""Costa verde"" provided the setting for Jean-Luc Godard's film ""Socialisme"". In 2011, American poet and Rock Singer Patti Smith wrote and recorded parts of her album Banga aboard the ship. The CD booklet includes photos taken of Smith and her band during their cruise. On 11 April 2012, a documentary broadcast in the United Kingdom, titled ""Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Costa Concordia"", and another first broadcast on Channel 4, titled ""The Sinking of the Concordia: Caught on Camera"", featured footage recorded by the passengers and crew. On 14 July 2012, a documentary titled ""Cruise"
"transferred to Costa following the merger of Carnival Corporation and P&O Princess in 2002. Ibero Cruises is a new brand, created in 2007 as a joint venture between Carnival Corporation and Orizonia Group. The Costa Cruises brand currently operates fourteen cruise ships, which all sail under the Italian flag and provide cruise holidays in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, South East Asia and South America. The company gained international attention on January 13, 2012 when one of its cruise ships, the ""Costa Concordia"", ran aground and capsized off the coast of Italy, because"
"the sinking and interviews with the survivors following the engine fire on ""Carnival Triumph"". In Paolo Sorrentino's 2013 film ""The Great Beauty"", the wreckage of ""Costa Concordia"" also featured On the 2016 album ""Teens of Denial"" ,""The Ballad of the Costa Concordia"", written by Will Toledo from indie rock band Car Seat Headrest, uses the disaster as a metaphor for a personal breakdown. Costa Concordia Costa Concordia () was a built in 2004 by the Fincantieris Sestri Ponente yards in Italy and operated from 2005 until 2012 by Costa Crociere (a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation). It was wrecked off the"
"he slipped off the ship when it turned over and fell into a lifeboat. A transcript of a recorded conversation between Schettino and the duty Coast Guard Captain Gregorio De Falco was broadcast across news bulletins in Europe and currently available (amongst other websites) on 'The Guardian' website. It details a very angry De Falco ordering Schettino to leave the life-boat he was in and return to the stricken Concordia. De Falco clearly does not believe Schettino's explanation of how he 'fell' into the lifeboat, or his excuse for not returning to the Costa Concordia because it was 'too dark'"
"year in which he made comments that appeared to make light of the Costa Concordia disaster, which had occurred nine days earlier. After playing ""Rock the Boat"" by The Hues Corporation he questioned whether it was an appropriate choice of song and joked about the Costa Concordia's captain. The ship run aground and partially sank off the Italian Coast with the loss of lives. Airing from 11am to 1pm every Sunday, Weekend Wogan features a mix of live and recorded music, together with guest singers. The show also includes celebrity interviews, as well as contributions from Wogan's listeners and regular"
"to occur during the Costa Concordia salvage operation. On 14 July 2014 salvage operators re-floated ""Costa Concordia"" off its submerged platform and towed the ship laterally a short distance away from the coast. , the ship had re-floated 7.5 metres from its supporting platform, with 6.3 metres remaining. On 23 July 2014, ""Costa Concordia"" began her final journey to the Port of Genoa. On 27 July 2014, ""Costa Concordia"" arrived in Genoa where it was moored against a wharf that had been specially prepared to receive the vessel for dismantling. On 11 May 2015 ""Costa Concordia"" was removed to another"
"the only survivor. Discovery Channel camera crews on the ""Maverick"" and ""Cornelia Marie"" captured the first footage of the debris field, confirming that the boat had capsized and gone down. The search for the ship is featured in the episode ""Dead of Winter"". Not to be confused with former Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, and St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa. Nyhammer, captain of the F/V ""Rollo"", served as a senior deckhand on the ""North American"" during the King crab portion of season 4. The F/V ""Time Bandit"" can be seen in the background of the behind the scenes"
"Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam Rebecca Coriam (born 11 March 1987) is a British crewmember who disappeared from the cruise ship ""Disney Wonder"" off the Pacific coast of Mexico on the morning of 22 March 2011. She was last seen in the crew lounge, where a security camera recorded her during a phone conversation that appeared to be causing her some emotional difficulty. Her disappearance was the first such incident in the history of Disney Cruise Line. The case remains under investigation, and her whereabouts since the phone conversation have not been established. Her parents have been critical of Disney's handling"
"solutions, had been awarded the contract to refloat and tow ""Costa Concordia"" to a port on the Italian mainland. The salvage operation, using the port of Civitavecchia as its base was anticipated to begin in early May, take about 12 months and cost $300 million. Once in port, the ship would be dismantled and the materials sold as scrap. South African freelance Nick Sloane was appointed as ""salvage master"" to lead the operation. It was announced on 21 April 2012 that the American salvaging firm Titan Salvage and Italian underwater construction firm Micoperi would attempt to refloat and remove the"
"Gregorio De Falco Gregorio De Falco (born 8 March 1965) is an Italian Navy officer and politician, currently Senator of the Five Star Movement. He is best known for his intervention in the attempt to solve the Costa Concordia disaster in January 2012. After graduating in Law at the University of Milan, in 1994 De Falco joined the Corps of the Port Captaincies in Livorno, studying at the Naval Academy. In 2000, De Falco left Livorno joining the Captaincy in Genoa. With the rank of Lieutenant, De Falco was assigned the Command in Santa Margherita Ligure, where he stood from"
"launched for a test. Under the regulations in force in 2006 when ""Costa Concordia"" was delivered, the ship had to be designed to survive the flooding of two adjacent compartments caused by an breach. The damage caused by impact with the rocks left a in the hull. Below is a timeline of the wrecking, 13–14 January 2012 (using local time, which was UTC+1). Costa Concordia disaster On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship ""Costa Concordia"" ran aground and overturned after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, resulting in 32 deaths. The eight year old Costa Cruises"
"death of 32 people after the ship capsized and partially sank next to the shore. Although the ship sank only partially and next to the shore, its evacuation was chaotic and its captain was subsequently arrested on preliminary charges of multiple manslaughter in connection with not only causing a shipwreck, but also failing to assist 300 passengers and failing to be the last to leave the wreck. ""Carnival Splendor"" experienced a fire in her engine room on November 8, 2010, resulting in a loss of all electrical power and stranding the vessel with almost 4,500 on board. Concordia-class cruise ship"
"Running for the open sea without cargo or ballast, and therefore riding high on the waves, ""Eldia"" was unable to match the strength of the storms. Her captain, Ernesto Garces, was also hampered by her lack of contemporary electronic technology for monitoring the weather, which had enabled other ships in the area to anticipate the problems that would come with the storm and take appropriate action; all he could do was monitor radio broadcasts. He attempted to bring the ship under control but was forced onto Nauset Beach at around 4pm. Two hours later the ship was abandoned by its"
"Chris Wreford-Brown Christopher Louis Wreford-Brown DSO RN (born August 1945) is a retired British Royal Navy officer. He was captain of HM Submarine ""Conqueror"" during the Falklands War, during which ""Conqueror"" attacked and destroyed the Argentine Navy's cruiser the ARA ""General Belgrano"". For the Falklands patrol he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He is currently the only naval officer to have commanded a nuclear submarine which has sunk a warship in war operations. When asked about the incident later, Wreford-Brown responded, ""The Royal Navy spent thirteen years preparing me for such an occasion. It would have been regarded as"
"Yiannis Avranas Yiannis Avranas (born ca. 1940) is a Greek former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship ""Oceanos"" when she sank off the Wild Coast of the Transkei, South Africa, on Sunday, August 4, 1991. In 1994, Avranas' British wife Davina published a book about the sinking, titled ""The Oceanos Tragedy"". At the time of the accident, Avranas had been an officer for 20 years and a seaman for 30, he had also married the British Davina Avrana. On 3 August 1991, the ""Oceanos"" set out from East London, South Africa and headed to Durban. She headed into 40-knot"
"spa facilities. Each ship has a 21,000-ft (2,000-m) wellness facility. Additional spa cabins were also included into the ""Concordia"" class. Carnival operates only a single vessel in this class, ""Carnival Splendor"", which is marketed as a ""Splendor""-class ship. Including ""Carnival Splendor"", there are currently five ships sailing in the ""Concordia"" class. ""Costa Concordia"" capsized on January 13, 2012, after running aground shortly off the coast of Tuscany. The ship had departed from Civitavecchia on a seven-day Mediterranean cruise with 3,229 passengers and a crew of 1,023. The grounding caused a gash in the hull, flooding the ship and causing the"
"approved by cruise companies or not. Sail-by salutes both near land and between two ships at sea are a time-held tradition going back to the days of the ancient mariner and that in particular Italian and Greek seafarers have long been known for sail-by salutes. The custom of sail-by salutes was brought to mainstream focus following the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster. In the case of the Costa Concordia disaster, there is controversy about whether the captain's on-shore superiors had ordered such a salute or had anything to do with it at all. Costa Cruises chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi told"
"the ship was about from the shore (about the length of the vessel) and hit an uncharted rock. The ship's first officer, Ciro Ambrosio, told investigators Schettino had left his reading glasses in his cabin and repeatedly asked Ambrosio to check the radar for him. The captain said that Costa Cruises managers told him to perform a sail-past salute on 13 January 2012. Previously, on 14 August 2011, the ship took a similar sail-past route, but not as close to Le Scole. 14 August 2011 sail-past was approved by Costa Cruises and was done in daylight during an island festival."
"on volunteer crew. On 29 October 2012, sixteen ""Bounty"" crew-members abandoned ship off the coast of North Carolina after getting caught in the high seas brought on by Hurricane Sandy. The ship sank, according to Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, at 12:45 UTC Monday 29 October 2012, and two crew members, including Captain Robin Walbridge, were reported as missing. The Captain was not found and presumed dead on 2 November 2012. It was later reported that the Coast Guard had recovered one of the missing crew members, Claudene Christian, descendant of Fletcher Christian of the original HMS ""Bounty"". Ms."
"location within the Port of Genoa to ease the access of road vehicles which carried the waste from the wreck. By January 2017, most of ""Costa Concordia"" had been completely dismantled and scrapped in Genoa, with all metal being recycled where possible. Final scrapping of the ship was completed in July 2017. After the wreck of ""Costa Concordia"" was towed away, Costa Crociere put Micoperi in charge of the salvage site remediation. This project is also known as phase WP9. Initially, $85 million were assigned to the project, which was to start at the end of 2014, and take about"