Shipwrecked Italian Cruise Ship

GROSSETO Italy AP The trial of the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner began Tuesday in a theater converted into a courtroom in Tuscany to accommodate all the survivors and relatives of the 32 victims who want to see justice carried out in the 2012 tragedy but the hearing was quickly postponed because of a nationwide strike by lawyers.

Shipwrecked italian cruise ship. A profile of 52-year-old Italian cruise liner captain Francesco Schettino jailed for manslaughter for his role in the Costa Concordia maritime disaster in January 2012. Salvaged cruise ship towed to Italian port Costa Concordia to be scrapped in Genoa after one of biggest engineering operations in maritime history to refloat it. The Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck will be removed in June from its watery graveyard off Tuscany and taken to a port to be dismantled the final.

ˈkɔsta konˈkɔrdja was a. ROME -- Italian Captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty today for causing the fatal shipwreck of the Costa Concordia and sentenced to 16 years in prison according to a three-judge panel. Costa Concordia shipwreck pulled upright off Italian island of Giglio.

For details of the 2012 grounding of the ship see Costa Concordia disaster. Costa Concordia Italian pronunciation. Less than 2 min read.

An Italian court has convicted five people of manslaughter and negligence over the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that left 32 people dead. GIGLIO Italy Reuters - The Costa Concordia was pulled upright off the Italian island of Giglio on Tuesday in a tense salvage. Salvaged in 2015 and subsequently scrapped in Genoa Italy in 2017.

The wreck of Italys Costa Concordia cruise ship begins to emerge from water on September 17 2013 near the harbour of Giglio Porto. A TOXIC concoction of rotting food chemicals and other debris is expected to spew out of the Costa Concordia when the giant cruise ship is hauled upright on Monday local time. GIGLIO ISLAND Italy AP Using a vast system of steel cables and pulleys maritime engineers on Monday gingerly winched the massive hull of the Costa Concordia off the reef where the cruise ship capsized near an Italian island in January 2012.

The Italian ship which crashed January 13 2012 off the coast of Italy after hitting a rock was a tragedy that captured international headlines following dozens of deaths of passengers. An Italian court on Saturday convicted five employees of an Italian cruise company over the Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 crew and passengers handing down a. Wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia raised off Italian rocks.