Concordia Cruise Ship Crash
Just why did the accident happen though.
Concordia cruise ship crash. AP PhotoGiglionewsit Giorgio Fanciulli. The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans after it ran aground off the coast of the Isola del Giglio island Italy early Saturday January 14 2012. The vessel carrying 4252 people met a tragic end in January 2012 when it hit an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio near Tuscany.
Men pushed past women and children to reach lifeboats. Thirty-two people died after the Costa Concordia cruis ship ran aground with more than 4000 passengers and crew on 13 January 2012 only hours after leaving the Italian port of Civitavecchia. Even the Costa Concordia is no minnow.
Between 14 and 30 January 2012 rescue divers searched within the ship for missing people and recovered most of the bodies. Technicians pass in a small boat near the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia lying aground in front of the Isola del Giglio on January 26 2012 after hitting underwater rocks on January 13. The Legacy of the Costa Concordia Disaster by Elias Rudnikas.
The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been successfully raised from the under-sea platform it has been resting on for the past year salvage workers say. As the 26th largest passenger ship in the world its 13 passenger decks are stacked on a vessel nearly 1000 ft long and 100ft high above the water. Costa Concordia cruise ship crash.
It is generally understood that the captain is the ultimate authority of any vessel and is expected by the general public to put the well-being of his or her passengers first by being the last to leave a sinking ship. Now half a decade on the wreckage of the tragic ship is. Several of the ships crew notably.
When the cruise liner Costa Concordia crashed and sank in 2012 32 people tragically lost their lives. The wreck of Italys Costa Concordia cruise ship begins to emerge from water on September 17 2013 near the harbour of Giglio Porto. Costa Concordia cruise ship to be scrapped It took one small act of incompetence to wreck the cruise ship but its taken 25 years and about 1 billion to get to the point of refloating the wreck.
