The first of 30 giant hollow boxes has been attached to the side of the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship, as efforts intensify to refloat the vessel more than a year after it capsized with the loss of 32 lives.
Giant boxes attached to Costa Concordia to help refloat it The Telegraph
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Costa Concordia disaster turned into Bollywood-style musical film
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Costa Concordia Victims’ Last Moments Revealed
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More than 4,000 passengers and crew were onboard the doomed Costa Concordia when it struck rocks after Schettino allegedly changed course in order to carry out a sail-by salute of a Mediterranean island to impress holidaymakers.
Details of the final moments of the 32 people who died in the Costa Concordia cruise ship tragedy have emerged in a prosecution report.
The 60-page document makes up the official request to have captain Francesco Schettino – who was in charge at the time – sent for trial.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict compared to Costa Concordia captain An Italian parish priest has caused uproar after burning a photograph of Benedict XVI during a church service and likening him to the disgraced captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship captain. The Telegraph
Costa Concordia captain speaks out – …– The Costa Concordia sits where she fell more than a year ago after hitting a rock off the coast of Italy. 7NEWS Boston News WHDH
Experience: we honeymooned on the Costa Concordia
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It was 9.45pm on a Sunday evening and my wife, Emily, and I were relaxing in our cabin on the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia. We’d married two weeks earlier and this was our honeymoon: 17 days cruising around Europe. At first we thought nothing of the soft scratching noise, although later we’d realise it was the sound of the hull being ripped open by a rock. Moments after, we felt the ship tilt ever so slightly to the starboard side…
Read More Experience: we honeymooned on the Costa Concordia‘A bottle of wine inched across the table and toppled off, then all our papers flew off the desk‘ The Guardian
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Concordia: A year after on Jan 13
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A year after the ship ran aground — leaving 30 dead — questions remain about its captain, the risk to marine life and when the Costa Concordia will be removed. Costa Concordia. Workers pass on a small boat near the Costa Concordia on Thursday. Salvage operations to raise the Costa Concordia began in May. Approximately 400 workers are on site day and night. Special care is being taken to protect the environment. A look at the plan:
One year later, Costa Concordia still half-submerged USA Today
Salvaging the Costa Concordia BBC News
Captain steered Costa Concordia ‘like a canoe’, says prosecutor The Guardian
Letter: Survivors ‘Not Welcome’ to Costa Concordia Anniversary Eyewitness News
captain piloted ship ‘like a canoe’ The Independent
New video emerges showing evacuation of Costa Concordia South Florida Business Journal
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Costa Concordia survivor relives horror of ship wreck The Telegraph
Costa Concordia maneuvered like a canoe THe Independent
Embedded rock from Costa Concordia to be used in memorial News.com.au
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Costa Concordia survivors: ‘One year on, our lives are still in ruins’
Telegraph.co.uk
The 43-year-old Hungarian was part of “Bianco Trio,” a group of three instrumentalists playing on the Costa Concordia, the giant cruise ship that capsized on January 13 last year. He lost his beloved double bass in the carnage, smashed his back and ripped his ankle ligaments, leaving him unable to work and now facing imminent eviction from his flat.He also lost his friend –
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Costa Concordia Captain Francesco Schettino Claims ‘Shocking Truth’
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Captain Francesco Schettino gained infamy in January after abandoning his cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, when it sank off the Tuscan island of Giglio in Italy. Schettino allegedly piloted the liner too close to shore as a “salute,” which ended in disaster and the deaths of 32 people.Dubbed “Captain Coward” by the press, Schettino has faced a wave of criticism over the tragedy, which cost him his job, and may result in charges of manslaughter.
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Experts: Costa Concordia equipment may not have been working before crash
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Francesco Schettino, the captain of the capsized Costa Concordia, faced the survivors and families of victims at a court hearing where audio from the ship’s black box was released. An Italian court heard on Tuesday that equipment aboard the Costa Concordia luxury liner may not have been functioning when she ran aground and capsized, killing 32 people. The list of issues compiled by a panel of court-appointed experts included a wide range of alleged malfunctions, from lights that did not work during the disaster to the possibility that radar equipment had been turned off or broken.
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Costa Concordia captain wants his job back
Telegraph.co.uk
“Costa Crociere confirms that it has concluded the disciplinary procedure against Schettino, following the sinking of the Costa Concordia, ordering his dismissal,” the company said in a statement. The captain has claimed that he managed to save lives
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Costa Concordia tragedy: Cruise ship’s salvage a wreck for Italian island
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Last January, the captain of the Italian mega-cruise ship Costa Concordia committed an apparent act of maritime bravado a few yards from the shore of a Tuscan island. Thirty people were killed, and two are still missing. Six months after one of the biggest passenger shipwrecks in recent history, relatives of the dead attended a memorial service near the site of the disaster.
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Cruise giant Carnival charts a course to safety
Telegraph.co.uk
David Dingle, the UK boss of cruise giant Carnival, shifts around in his chair and thinks carefully about how to tackle the highly sensitive subject of the Costa Concordia disaster. This week will mark the six-month anniversary since that fateful night on January 13 when the luxury cruise liner, owned by Carnival’s Italian business Costa, hit rocks and sank off the Tuscan island of Giglio.