Carnival has announced that the sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship could wipe out its profits in 2012. Carnival says Costa Concordia disaster could reduce the company’s profits by as much as 82% this year after more than 30 people are believed to have died in the accident. In the quarter to 29 February, it lost $139 million compared to a $152 million profit in the same period last year….
Mar 10 2012 | Posted in
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Five more bodies have been found after more than two months since the cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized off the Italian coast. Italian authorities say the bodies were found outside the ship, in a small space between the wreck and the sea bed. Altogether 30 bodies have now been found since the vessel ran aground off the island of Giglio on 13 January. The Costa Concordia was carrying 4,200 pass…
risis unit, Roberto Ferrarini, with whom Francesco Schettino was in contact during the evacuation. The ship’s first officer, Ciro Ambrosio, is also under investigation. Costa Concordia, carrying 4,200 passengers and crew, had its hull ripped open when it hit rocks in darkness, just hours into a Mediterranean cruise. …
ll be days before the actual pumping process can begin. It is likely to take about four weeks to complete the operation. The Costa Concordia hit rocks off the Tuscan coast on 13 January with more than 4,200 people on board. Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster is raised to 16 after another body has been found inside the wreck of the vessel, officials say Italian officials have not confirmed repo…
nd crew hit rocks which tore a 70 metre hole in the hull. The vessel is now currently lying partially submerged on rocks just outside Giglio harbor while salvage experts continue to pump off more than 500,000 gallons of heavy duty diesel from the ship’s tanks. …
er, the boat ran aground. The revelations follow claims that Francesco Schettino had been drinking “with a beautiful woman” at the ship’s bar before he sailed into disaster. Francesco Schettino, 52, was arrested on suspicion of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship when the cruise liner ran aground after sustaining a 160 ft gash in the port-side hull. Six people are now confirmed dead an…
horities to understand the causes of the disaster.” He said normal lifeboat evacuation had become “almost impossible” because the ship had listed so quickly. Francesco Schettino, the 52-year-old captain, had worked for Costa Cruises for 11 years. The chief prosecutor in the city of Grosseto told reporters that Captain Francesco Schettino “very ineptly got close to Giglio…
Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia ship which ran aground killing more than 30 people, has said a “divine hand” guided him, preventing greater tragedy. Francesco Schettino has released a letter, published in Italy’s La Corriere della Sera newspaper, explaining his version of events. The ship struck rocks and capsized near the island of Giglio, off the coast of T…
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s not on the ship’s embarkation list. There could have been more “illegals” on board, he said, referring to people who were not registered to be on the vessel. There were known to be 4,200 people on the cruise ship when it got into trouble. Costa Concordia captain, Francesco Schettino, is being detained under house arrest while his actions are investigated. Francesco Schettino is…
ations. Most electric lights on board the ship are off as the batteries are being used to keep essential machinery going. A spokesman said the situation on board was calm. There are 636 passengers and 413 crew on board the Costa Allegra, which left Madagascar on Saturday. It was due to arrive in the Seychelles on Tuesday. Further destinations on its itinerary include Alexandria and Naples. A facil…
Italian officials announced removal operation of more than 2,300 tons of fuel from the grounded Costa Concordia cruise ship has started. The operation began on Sunday afternoon, nearly a month after the ship hit a reef and capsized off the island of Giglio. The process had been delayed by both the search and rescue operation and bad weather, prompting fears of a leak into the protected waters off…
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Ahead of today’s pre-trial hearing over capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship, Captain Francesco Schettino was said by his family to be both depressed and afraid. Maurilio Russo, Francesco Schettino’s brother-in-law, said the captain was suffering in the knowledge that lives had been lost and was particularly affected by the death of the youngest victim, five-year-old Dayana Arlotti. “HeR…
not just the ship that is identified or the company, the captain is identified and so it’s normal that I should apologize as a representative of this system,” he told Italy’s Canale 5 television. Francesco Schettino said he blamed himself for being “distracted” but said he had not been on the bridge when the ship ran aground. “At that moment, I went up to the d…
An incredible infrared footage has emerged today showing survivors of Costa Concordia slipping down the belly of the stricken cruise ship one-by-one using a rope. The black-and-white video, taken by the Italian Coastguard, shows passengers queueing up to get into lifeboats. The film has been released after a French survivor today claimed that panicking crew were already “fleeing in their life jac…
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Read More » Italian rescue teams have found two more bodies in the partially submerged Costa Concordia cruise liner that sank off Italy. The moment brings to five those known to have died after Costa Concordis cruise ship, carrying more than 4,000 people, hit rocks on Friday. The coastguard said divers searching the vessel found the bodies of two men trapped at an assembly point. Earlier three survivors were…
p is likely to reach the Costa Allegra at around 2300 GMT, according to AFP. The first tug boat will not reach the location until 15:00 GMT on Tuesday, the agency reports. There are 636 passengers and 413 crew on board the Costa Allegra, which left Madagascar on Saturday. It was due to arrive in the Seychelles on Tuesday. Further destinations on its itinerary include Alexandria and Naples in the M…
ausing a ship wreck. Francesco Schettino is currently under house arrest following the disaster which happened earlier this month, after he recklessly steered his 114,000 tons ship, carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew, on to rocks close to the island of Giglio in a “sail by” salute to impress a crew member. Fabiola Russo, 48, who lives with Francesco Schettino and their 17-year-old daught…
Doctor Thierry Costa, who worked on French adventure reality TV show Koh Lanta, has killed himself in Cambodia after contestant Gerald Babin died. Dr. Thierry Costa, 38, left a suicide saying his name had been “sullied by the media” over the death of 25-year-old Gerald Babin a week ago. Gerald Babin had a heart attack during filming on the island of Koh Rong. Dr Thierry Costa has kil…
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and the evacuation is expected to take several hours. Costa Allegra, which lost power on Monday, is from the same fleet as the Costa Concordia, which capsized off the Italian coast in January, killing 32. As the Costa Allegra has no power, bringing the ship alongside the dock so that passengers can be disembarked is expected to take at least two hours. Costa Allegra, the stricken Italian cruise s…
…ts of the analysis” that found none of the drug inside the hair itself or in the urine. Traces of cocaine in the urine or inside the hair itself would have pointed to consumption. Francesco Schettino, 52, is under house arrest in his home near Naples while he is investigated for alleged manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship. The Costa Concordia captain has denied abandoning shi…
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A 7.6-magnitude earthquake has rocked the north-western part of Costa Rica triggering a tsunami warning, the US Geological Survey said. A tsunami warning is in effect for Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua. The quake was centred about 50 miles (80 km) south of the town of Liberia and was at a depth of 12.4 miles. It rattled buildings and cut power in some parts of the capital of San Jose, Reuters…
toll to 11. “The five victims are a woman and four men, who could be passengers, but we are not sure,” said coastguard spokesman Filippo Marini. He added that the dead people were between 50 and 60 years old, and were wearing life-jackets. The bodies were found near one of the assembly points where people were told to gather in an emergency. The authorities are also battling to avoid…
pital. It was revealed earlier this week that Michelle Knight is reportedly suffering hearing loss and facial bone damage after years of vicious beatings to her head. Michelle Knight’s mother Barbara, 50, said she never gave up hope and will now be able to introduce Michelle to the half sister she has never met, 10-year-old Katie, who was born after she disappeared. On Wednesday, Barbara Knight to…
May 10 2013 | Posted in
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, in early 2003. It can take several sessions using a laser to remove a tattoo, and the process is said to be extremely painful. Mike Tyson is set to appear in cameo roles in upcoming film Scary Movie 5 and The Hangover Part III. In the second installation of The Hangover, Ed Helms’ character Stu gets a tattoo to match Mike Tyson’s….
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Parts of a historic stretch of the Berlin Wall have been removed by a German property developing firm amid heavy police presence, despite a week of protests. Four segments of the so-called East Side Gallery stretch have been removed by builders on Wednesday morning to open access to a building site for blocks of flats. Some 250 police officers were deployed as the sections were dismantled. The re…
