Costa Cruise Ship Wreck

The effort to dismantle the ill-fated Costa.

Costa cruise ship wreck. During that voyage the ship carried 3500 people passengers and. The Costa Concordias owners Costa Crociere estimate the operation to remove the wreck from the reef and tow it for scrapping will cost 15bn euros 12bn. Search of cruise ship abandoned Italian divers have abandoned their search for bodies inside the wrecked cruise ship Costa.

The lightening of the cruise ship has allowed the removal of the first giant steel sponsons that have provided buoyancy for the wreck since it. Francesco Schettino were charged with various crimes. Passengers aboard the stricken Costa cruise ship say that they observed Italian Master Francesco Schettino draped in a blanket aboard a lifeboat heading to safety as the vessels crew and passengers struggled for their lives.

On the night of Friday January 13 the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia with more than 3200 passengers and 1000 crew members on board struck a reef keeled over and partially sank off. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. Many famous naval disasters happen far out at sea but on January 13 2012 the Costa Concordia wrecked just off the coast of an Italian island in relatively shallow water.

Book by 18 Oct. The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy Italian news agency Ansa said 4165 out of the 4234 people on-board were safe but did. Several of the ships crew notably Capt.

In June 2005 the vessel was navigating along Italys western coast passing by Capri island. 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. On 22 November 2008 Costa Concordia suffered damage to her bow when high winds over the Sicilian city of Palermo pushed the ship against its dock.

Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Pulled by tugboats and nudged by brisk winds the wreck was eased Sunday into Genoas port where it will be scrapped. 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.