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This was the only death to occur during the Costa Concordia salvage operation. [183] On 14 July 2014 salvage operators re-floated Costa Concordia off its submerged platform and towed the ship laterally a short distance from the coast. [184] [185] [186] On 23 July 2014, Costa Concordia began its final journey to the Port of Genoa. [187] [188]
The season 39 Nova episode "Why Ships Sink" discusses the sinking of Costa Concordia. [52] A later Nova season 42 episode "Sunken Ship Rescue" featured the salvage effort and race to refloat and remove the badly damaged Costa Concordia from the accident scene before the ship could break apart, risking an environmental catastrophe. [53]
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.
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."
Following its capsizing and sinking in January 2012, the hull of Costa Concordia lay starboard side to the seaward face of a small outcropping very near the mouth of the harbor of Giglio, Italy, resting precariously on the incline to deeper water. To right the vessel, four key pieces of apparatus were required:
Some 32 people died when the boat hit a reef and partially sank on January 13, 2012, off the Tuscan island of Giglio. It had been carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew.
Costa Concordia sank on January 13, 2012, after running aground shortly off the coast of Tuscany, resulting in 32 fatalities (33 including the later death of a salvage worker). The ship had departed from Civitavecchia on a seven-day Mediterranean cruise with 3,229 passengers and a crew of 1,023.
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