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MS Costa Concordia in Palma, Majorca, in 2011. Costa Concordia (call sign: IBHD, IMO number: 9320544, MMSI number: 247158500), with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, [1] was sailing off Isola del Giglio on the night of 13 January 2012, having begun a planned seven-day cruise from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, to Savona and five other ports. [2]
Capsized and partially sank in 2012 off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany. Salvaged in 2014 and subsequently scrapped in Genoa, Italy in 2017. General characteristics [2] Class and type: Concordia-class cruise ship: Tonnage: 114,147 GT: Length: 290.20 m (952 ft 1 in) 247.4 m (811 ft 8 in) (between perpendiculars) Beam: 35.50 m (116 ft 6 in) Draught
Francesco Schettino (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko sketˈtiːno]; born 14 November 1960) [1] is an Italian former shipmaster who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when the ship struck an underwater rock and capsized off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012. [2] [3] Thirty-two passengers and crew died. In 2015, he was ...
The ship was towed and beached. 33 people died while around 200 passengers were rescued. [51] 33 2012 Italy: Costa Concordia – The Italian cruise ship ran aground, capsized and sank in shallow waters on 13 January off the Isola del Giglio, killing 32 people (27 passengers and 5 crewmembers) out of 3,216 passengers and 1,013 crewmembers aboard. 32
Luca Cari, a spokesman for the rescue teams, said the search was proceeding much more slowly than another big shipwreck in Italy, the 2012 Costa Concordia cruise ship that flipped on its side off ...
The capsized battleship USS Oklahoma is rotated upright while under salvage at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 8 March 1943. The ship is in the 130-degree position, with its bow on the left and the starboard deck edge just rising from the water. Parbuckle salvage, or parbuckling, is the righting of a sunken vessel using rotational leverage.
The Bayesian, a 183-foot vessel, capsized early on Monday, Aug. 19, while moored about a half mile from the the coast of Porticello, according to a statement from the Italian coast guard ...
Italian media have posted an audio clip of the MSC Opera's pilot telling emergency officials that the cruise ship experienced a loss of controls and "activated all the procedures to avoid" a ...