officials said there were 29 people still missing from the vessel. Teams of specialist divers have been helping with the rescue mission, but they have been hampered by bad weather. The ship, carrying 4,200 passengers and crew, had its hull ripped open when it hit rocks late on Friday, just hours after leaving the port of Civitavecchia for a week-long Mediterranean cruise. Some people were forced…
Francesco Schettino, the Italian captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground killing three person and injuring more than 20 more was arrested late Saturday and is being investigated for manslaughter and abandoning ship, said a local prosecutor in Grosetto, Italy. Francesco Schettino, had been earlier interviewed by investigators in Porto Santo Stefano about what happened when the 4,20…
…. The first call to the boat took place at 9:49 p.m., where the coastguard asked what the situation was. The boat had run aground some 30 minutes before. They did not speak again until 0:42 a.m., just 40 minutes after the evacuation started, when Francesco Schettino was asked how many people were on board. He replied “40”. The coastguard, surprised, asked how there were so few people left on board…
220;overcome and wants to express his greatest condolences to the victims”, adding that the captain had carried out a dangerous manoeuvre that had actually saved lives. Costa Concordia, carrying 4,200 passengers and crew, had its hull ripped through when it hit rocks late on Friday. Some people were forced to swim for land as the angle of the ship made boarding lifeboats impossible. German m…
Captain Francesco Schettino is currently under house arrest while prosecutors investigate allegations of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning Costa Concordia when there were still 300 passengers on board who needed to be rescued. Last week Domnica Cemortan told prosecutors during more than five hours of questioning that she was “in love” with Francesco Schettino and that she f…
work next week on pumping more than 2,300 tons of diesel out of the 290m-long vessel. The woman was wearing uniform, indicating she was a crew member. The ship ran aground on 13 January with more than 4,200 people on board. Another 15 people are still missing. Divers searching the wreck of Costa Concordia cruise ship have found the body of a woman, bringing the death toll to 17 “We were rea…
The Costa Concordia’s bell is reported to have gone missing, two months after the ship ran aground off Italy. An investigation has been launched into the disappearance, the Italian news agency Ansa reports. The images of the Costa Concordia’s bell, taken underwater by divers soon after the vessel sank, became a well-known image associated with the disaster. At least 30 people are beli…
oard the vessel because it was lying on its side. Francesco Schettino argued that after hitting rocks he had executed a difficult manoeuvre that had saved many people’s lives. The ship, carrying 4,200 passengers and crew, had its hull ripped open when it hit rocks late on Friday, just hours after leaving the port of Civitavecchia for a week-long Mediterranean cruise. Some people were forced…
…rs after the grounding. Costa Concordia ran aground after Captain Francesco Schettino veered from his approved course and gashed the ship’s hull on a reef, forcing the panicked evacuation of the 4,200 passengers and crew. On Wednesday, the chief executive of Costa Crociere SpA, Pier Luigi Foschi, insisted that Francesco Schettino didn’t have approval to change the ship’s routing…
ying pan to alert rescuers The Costa Concordia ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio on 13 January, when the captain deviated from his planned route and struck a reef, creating a huge gash. Some 4,200 passengers and crew were on board when the vessel capsized. A total of 17 bodies have been recovered and 16 others are missing but presumed dead. On Tuesday civil protection officials called of…
ll missing. Salvage operators are standing by to start pumping fuel from the ship’s tanks to avoid a potential environmental disaster. Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground on Friday with some 4,200 people on board, tourists and crew. At least 11 people were killed. The bodies of two French victims have been identified by relatives, the French embassy in Rome confirms, AFP news agency repo…
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At least three people died after Costa Concordia cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy. The luxury Costa Concordia cruise ship hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island of Giglio and listed about 20 degrees, after which people tried to reach land in lifeboats or by swimming. Rescue teams have been going from cabin to cabin, searching for survivors. Italians, Germ…
…after it emerged he had recklessly altered the Costa Concordia’s course so that he could carry out a sail by salute of the Italian island of Giglio in January but the ship which was carrying more than 4,000 passengers and 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…
ld investigators he had “ordered the turn too late” as the luxury ship sailed close to an island, according to a leaked interrogation transcript. The Costa Concordia ran aground with about 4,200 people on board. More than 20 people are still missing but the search for survivors has been halted. According to the leaked transcript quoted by Italian media, Captain Francesco Schettino said…
Italian divers have found the bodies of two women on the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, bringing the confirmed death toll of the disaster to 15. Italian authorities say the pumping of fuel from the stricken Costa Concordia can proceed in tandem with the search of the wreck. Costa Concordia ran aground off the Tuscan coast on 13 January with 4,200 people on board. It is carrying about 1…
while she waited for a cabin to become available. Domnica Cemortan has given her own eyewitness account of what happened on the bridge of the vessel in the minutes before it ran aground with more than 4,000 people on board. Swathed in black fur against the biting cold and with her face devoid of make-up, Domnica Cemortan appears even more youthful than she actually is. Domnica Cemortan says: “So m…
de the wreck of the Costa Concordia, bringing the death toll to 16. At least 16 others are missing. Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio on 13 January with more than 4,200 people on board. Costa Cruises has blamed Captain Francesco Schettino for committing “grave errors of judgement” by steering the ship too close to Giglio on an “unauthorized m…
crew of the Costa Concordia cruise ship reassuring passengers nothing was wrong, after the vessel had begun taking in water The Costa Concordia ran aground off Italy’s coast a week ago with some 4,200 people on board. Twenty-one people are still missing, and hopes to find any of them alive are fading fast. The latest amateur footage was posted online by Italy’s Rainews24 on Thursday. I…
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…
The death toll of Costa Concordia disaster is raised to twelve after the body of a woman has been found on board of the Italian cruise ship. The woman, who was wearing a life jacket, was found by divers on the fourth deck of the Costa Concordia. Twenty people are still missing after the ship, with 4,200 people on board, struck a rock in shallow waters on 13 January off Tuscany’s Giglio isla…
ship’s captain Francesco Schettino for last week’s crash, in which at least 11 people were killed. The Costa Concordia hit rocks off the coast of the Tuscan island of Giglio with more than 4,200 people on board a week ago. Hundreds were injured. Relatives of victims are expected to come to Giglio, which is being visited by Senate President Renato Schifani, the number two in the Italian…
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…
p has been hampered by bad weather. The operation to move the ship itself cannot safely begin until the fuel is removed. The 114,500-ton Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground on rocks with more than 4,200 people on board. Costa Concordia was holed by a rock after being steered by its captain to within 150 metres (yards) of the tiny island of Giglio. Captain Francesco Schettino is under house arr…
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….
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