GUILTY Italy - Costa Concordia Cruise Ship runs aground/flips, 2012

[Blondie in Spokane]

"Four men suspected of trying to steal items from Costa Concordia wreck"

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/1...from-costa-concordia-wreck/?intcmp=latestnews

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

'Captain Coward did NOT fall into a lifeboat - he LEAPT': Cadet tells court that officer deliberately abandoned stricken Costa Concordia"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ifeboat-says-cadet-officer.html#ixzz2kOKOh7AO

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

'Everything is under control': Costa Concordia crew member reveals how she was ordered to tell passengers to return to their cabins moments before the ship sank"

"Jacqueline Abad Quine broke down during trial of Francesco Schettino
Captain is accused of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship
Italian disaster in January 2012 killed 32 people after the ship hit a reef
Schettino was dubbed 'Captain Coward' for refusing to get back on board"

"A Costa Concordia crew member has told a court how she was ordered to tell passengers 'everything was under control' after the packed luxury cruise ship struck rocks and was fatally holed."

"Jacqueline Abad Quine was a deputy cabin services director and was on duty the night the ship hit the reefs after its captain Francesco Schettino altered course to carry out a 'sail-by salute' of an island."

"She was later seen in video footage trying to reassure passengers who had gathered on decks close to lifeboat stations and described to the hearing the scene of panic and confusion in the minutes following the incident."


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-cabins-moments-ship-sank.html#ixzz2lfG6ISpJ

 

[Mickie Mouse]

http://news.msn.com/world/shipwrecked-concordia-to-be-removed-in-june

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

"Amazing pictures show hulking wreck of the Costa Concordia rusting away in the Mediterranean Sea as massive operation to lift stricken cruise liner begins"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ricken-cruise-liner-begins.html#ixzz2qEw9ZiUM

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

"Inside Captain Coward's love nest: First pictures of cabin where Costa Concordia skipper held trysts with blonde dancer before running ship into rocks, killing 32"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...running-Costa-Concordia-rocks-killing-32.html

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Costa Concordia claims another life after diver working on salvage operation 'cuts leg on sheet metal and bleeds to death'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Concordia-salvage-operation-coast-Italy.html

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Costa Concordia Captain Francesco Schettino to board ship grounded off Italy coast for 1st time since disaster

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/costa-c...esco-schettino-to-board-ship-off-italy-coast/

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Disgraced Capt. Schettino Returns to Concordia Wreck

By Claudio Lavanga

ROME - When Capt. Francesco Schettino abandoned the Costa Concordia after the cruise ship ran aground on the Italian island of Giglio two years ago, a furious harbor master ordered him to “get back on board, damn it!”

On Thursday, Schettino finally did...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/disgraced-capt-schettino-returns-concordia-wreck-n39996

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Costa Concordia captain ‘tried to convince head of crisis team that devastating shipwreck was caused by blackout'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ship-wreck-caused-blackout.html#ixzz2yvHSYJIo

 

[newone]

Just stumbled on this news item tonight. The helmsman had agreed to a plea deal for suspended sentence of 20 months. The same person is supposed to testify at the trial of the captain however there is no trace of him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...er-fails-to-turn-up-for-trial-of-captain.html

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

British couple who still can't sleep two years after surviving the Costa Concordia sinking are seeking more than £1million in damages

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ncordia-sinking-seeking-1million-damages.html

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Inside the wreck of the Costa Concordia: Divers explore sunken cruise ship just days before it is due to be raised – to fury of green campaigners


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sed-fury-green-campaigners.html#ixzz36TjPcDBo

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/work-tow-costa-concordia-start-24534557?source=hp

Work to tow away Concordia to begin soon

 

[SurfieTX]

GIGLIO, Italy - It took one act of incompetence to wreck the Costa Concordia, but it’s taken two and a half years and about $1 billion to get to the point of getting rid of the wreck.

It’s the biggest salvage operation ever attempted—and one of the most risky, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips. The Costa Concordia has been sitting upright on an underwater steel platform since last September.

~~

An array 30 metal flotation chambers have been attached along the sides of the ship. They’re full of water now but are being pumped out so they can act as giant water wings and lift the Concordia. But it’s never a simple as it sounds. The scale of the project is huge.The flotation chambers are the size of buildings.“Very big lifts. We had eleven-story buildings, seven-story buildings, over eight hundred tons, so a lot of heavy lifts in a short time,” director of the operation Nick Sloane said.

And only when the ship starts to move will the engineers be sure she still has the structural integrity to hold together under the strain.

http://www.khou.com/news/Costa-Concordia-cruise-ship-to-be-scrapped-267041771.html

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-ship-set-refloated-towed-away-scrapped.html

Inside the cruise ship that became a sunken tomb: Dramatic photos of Costa Concordia show rusting bars, jammed lifts (and even an undamaged piano) as painstaking operation to refloat boat begins

 

[nightwatch]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-ship-set-refloated-towed-away-scrapped.html

Inside the cruise ship that became a sunken tomb: Dramatic photos of Costa Concordia show rusting bars, jammed lifts (and even an undamaged piano) as painstaking operation to refloat boat begins

Impressive engineering, just amazing. Jmo

ciao

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-entombed-Costa-Concordia-ship-refloated.html

Divers pledge to find missing body of Indian waiter who has been entombed in Costa Concordia now that ship has been refloated

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Costa Concordia Cruise Liner Towed in Final Voyage from Giglio

The wrecked Costa Concordia began its final voyage Wednesday as the cruise ship was towed from the Italian island where it struck a rock and capsized two-and-a-half years ago, killing 32 people. The 114,500-tonne vessel was slowly lifted from the ocean floor in Giglio harbor last week and was being towed north to the port of Genoa by two tugs...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/costa-concordia-cruise-liner-towed-final-voyage-giglio-n162701

 

[CarolinaMoon]

I'm so saddened to see the derelict Costa Concordia set sail for the last time because it is under such horrible circumstances. It was a beautiful ship that was lost due to poor behavior by the captain and crew. I pray for the souls of those lost and hope that, once in Genoa, the remains of the last victim are found. I also hope the survivors will be able to continue their lives and not continue to suffer the aftermath of their horrible experience. Finally, I am pleased that the people of Giglio will no longer have to view the carcass of the ship which was a victim of human-caused destruction.