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Costa Concordia was declared a "constructive total loss" by the cruise line's insurer, and her salvage was "one of the biggest maritime salvage operations". On 16 September 2013, the parbuckle salvage of the ship began, and by the early hours of 17 September, the ship was set upright on her underwater cradle.
When the 114,137-ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service, they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130,000 GT Dream-class cruise ships. On 13 January 2012 at 21:45, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio.
Year Country Description Deaths Image 1495 Denmark: Gribshunden – Flagship of John, King of Denmark caught fire and burned down while in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Ronneby in southeastern Sweden, becoming one of the best-preserved shipwrecks from the late medieval period. Exact number of deaths unknown, reported only as many of the crew ...
Better safety regulations and systems have largely made Titanic-scale disasters a thing of the past, but they didn't stop one of the worst modern-day cruise disasters, the sinking of a Chinese ...
WRECKSITE Worldwide free database of + 65.000 ships wrecked with history, maritime charts and GPS positions; Titanic Facts The life and loss of the RMS Titanic, in numbers; G. Duncan. Maritime disasters of World War 2; World sea disasters timeline, 21st century; Notable peacetime passenger ship disasters [dead link
Year Country Description Deaths Use Image 2022 Ukraine: Ukrainian patrol vessel Sloviansk - On 3 March the former US Coast Guard Cutter was sunk by a Russian cruise missile near Odesa Oblast in the Black Sea; an unknown number of Ukrainian sailors are missing. [76] Several missing, unknown as of 11 March Naval 2022 Russia
A passenger has gone overboard on the largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Carribean’s Wonder of the Seas, ... It is estimated that 19 people go overboard on cruise ships each year, and only ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...