Costa Concordia Cruise Ship

The Costa Concordia disaster The refloated wreck of the Costa Concordia is towed to the Italian port of Genoa on Sunday July 27 to be scrapped ending the ships final journey two and a half.

Costa concordia cruise ship. Cruise Ship Safety. The ships design is based on the design of Carnivals Conquest class fleet of ships. She was the first in the Concordia Class sistering Costa Serena Costa Pacific Costa Favolosa Costa Fascinosa and Carnival Splendor.

On 13 January 2012 whilst the Costa Concordia was in navigation in the Mediterranean Sea Tyrrhenian sea Italian coastline with 4229 persons on board 3206 passengers and 1023 crewmembers in favourable meteo-marine conditions at 21 45 07 LT local time the ship suddenly collided with the Scole Rocks at the Giglio Island. The Costa Concordia cruise ship the day after it ran aground with 4200 people on board off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island. It was christened in 2006 at which point the ship was believed to be the largest cruise ship flying the Italian flag.

The Captain sailing the ship at the time was captain Francesco Schettino who had worked for Costa Cruises for 11 years. A photographer was able to get aboard the ship for an impromptu photo shoot. The Costa Concordia has now been brought up from the shallow shores of the sea and is sitting in port.

She is sister ship to the Costa Serena. When the Costa Concordia crashed she had over 3000 passengers and 1000 crew members on board. Former captain of the Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino speaks with reporters after being aboard the ship with the team of experts inspecting the wreck on February 27 2014 in.

The Costa Concordia left the Italian port of Civitavecchia at 1918 local time 1818 GMT. The port of Giglio and the Costa Concordia cruise ship that. It ran aground at Isola del Giglio Tuscany requiring the evacuation of 4211.

The pictures he took show a tragic scene. On January 13th 2012 the Concordia partially sank after hitting a reef off the Italian coast. The vessel was wrecked off the coast of Isola del Giglio Italy in the Tyrrhenian.