The Costa Concordia, the wrecked liner which has been half-submerged near the Italian island of Giglio since it hit a rock in January, could be a paradise for recreational scuba divers from around the world – if sunk instead of salvaged.”Every night I light a candle and say a prayer for it to sink,” Aldo Baffigi, a Giglio native, says of the 290-metre-long ship with its towering smokestack and four swimming pools.
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By the CNN Wire Staff Removing the wrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia from the coastal waters off an Italian island will begin in May and take about a year.
“Once returned to a floating state, the wreck will be towed to an Italian port,” Costa Cruises said in a news release.
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The company said its North American brands have taken a smaller hit than European liners like Costa Concordia - which capsized off the coast of Italy in January, killing at least 25 people – and predicted a broader companywide recovery in the next year to two. “As time passes, we are confident that our business will improve,” Carnival operations chief Howard Frank told analysts on a conference call.
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In an exclusive, National Geographic Channel will take viewers on the gripping passage to death and drama on high-seas when the ill-fated Costa Concordia , sunk off the coast of Italy on the 13th of January 2012. Suspense-filled, the documentary pieces together survivor testimony along with footage taken during the ship’s evacuation, using footage from images captured on cameras and mobile phones during the journey and in the dramatic and hectic hours as the ship went down.
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The Costa Allegra suffered an engine-room fire on Monday which disabled its engines in waters prowled by pirates. The ship is owned by the company whose giant liner Costa Concordia smashed into rocks off Italy and capsized last month, killing at least 25 people
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Eight bodies, including that of a five-year-old girl, have been found by divers on the capsizedCosta Concordia cruise ship. It brings the number of confirmed dead since the ship hit rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio last month to 25. The young girl is likely to be Dayana Arlotti, who was last seen with her father attempting to find a way off the stricken ship. Read More
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By Laura Viggiano and James Mackenzie | NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) – Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed cruise liner Costa Concordia, knew as soon as his ship struck a rock off the island of Giglio on January 13 that he had made a catastrophic error and a 30-year career at sea was ending in disgrace. Bringing the 114,500 tonne vessel to within a stone’s throw of shore, he had intended to perform a “salute” to the island for the benefit of Antonello Tievoli, the ship’s head waiter and a native of Giglio.
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“We also believe the recent high-profile loss arising from the grounding of the ‘Costa Concordia‘ may prove to be the greatest demonstration yet of the resilience of the International Group of P&I Clubs (IG) structure.” during the financial year ended February 2011, risk-based capital adequacy improved–likely to its best-ever level–supported mainly by continued improvements in underwriting results and the somewhat unexpected resilience of investment returns. However, there are signs of pressure on this strengthened level of capital, which may yet cause us to view the sector and even some individual clubs slightly less positively.
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| MIAMI (Reuters) - Carnival Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Micky Arison on Friday made what was believed to be his first public appearance since an ocean liner belonging to one of his Miami-based company’s subsidiaries ran aground and capsized off the coast of Italy two weeks ago.
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By Andrew Longstreth and Tom Hals | NEW YORK (Reuters) – Soon after Mitchell Proner, a New York personal-injury lawyer, heard about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy, he sprang into action. Proner, who specializes in in motorcycle-accident lawsuits, has never litigated a maritime case. But he has at least one advantage over other U.S. lawyers who might want to sue over the disaster: He speaks Italian. Within days of the accident, he hopped a flight to Italy. Read More
