Cruise Ship Sinks Off Italy

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Cruise ship sinks off italy. Italian cruises set sail for the first time in four months after the pandemic sunk the industry The flagship Costa Smeralda set off from the port of Savona after being landbound since December when. Word is out that the cruiseship COSTA CONCORDIA went aground Friday night. 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.

As it made its way north-west along the Italian coastline Captain Francesco. The captain of the ill-fated cruise ship may have made significant errors that led to wreck the cruise line said late Sunday. 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.

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. 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. Cruise Ship Costa Concordia Sinks off Italian Coast VIDEO AIS Track Earlier.

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. 13 when the ship struck a reef off the Italian coast and ran aground at isola del giglio Tuscany causing an evacuation for the 4197 passengers on board. Construction and maiden voyage.

But aground doesnt. From 1980 to 2012 about 16 ships have sunk. Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island.

On January 13 2012 Costa Cruises vessel the Costa Concordia departed from Civitavecchia Italy with approximately 3200 passengers and 1000 crew members on. 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 ship was heading out on a week-long cruise around the Mediterranean with 3206 passengers and 1023 crew onboard.