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Costa Concordia, commanded by Captain Francesco Schettino at the time of grounding. 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.
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]
Jan. 13, 2012: The Costa Concordia slams into a reef off Italy's Giglio island after the captain, Francesco Schettino, ordered it taken off course and brought it close to shore in a stunt. Jan. 15 ...
The evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours, and of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died. Francesco Schettino, the ship's captain at that time, was tried and found guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident, and abandoning his ship. He was sentenced to sixteen years in prison in 2015.
Survivors of the 2012 Costa Concordia cruise line disaster in Italy remembered the chaos of the wreck that killed 32 people, saying it was like something out of the movie "Titanic."
Gregorio Maria de Falco (born 8 March 1965) is an Italian naval officer and politician who was formerly a member of the Italian Senate.He is best known for his career in the Italian Navy, which saw his intervention in the attempt to solve the Costa Concordia disaster in January 2012.
A boat captain in Sicily recalls saving several survivors just moments after a fatal yacht incident in Italy left at least one person dead and six people missing.. The Bayesian vessel, a 56-meter ...
January 13, 2012: Captain Francesco Schettino abandoned his ship before hundreds of passengers had been evacuated during the Costa Concordia disaster. 32 people died in the accident. Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the disaster. April 16, 2014: Captain Lee Joon-seok abandoned the South Korean ferry MV Sewol.