Italian Cruise Ship Wreck

A man who spent his honeymoon on the Costa Concordia is now part of a team dismantling the cruise ship wreck two and a half years after it was holed and sank off Italy.

Italian cruise ship wreck. Search crews found five more bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship which struck a reef off an Italian island in January officials said on Thursday. The Italian captain of the cruise ship that ran aground -- killing three people and injuring 20 more -- was arrested late Saturday and is being investigated for manslaughter and abandoning ship said a local prosecutor in Grosetto. Missing Grows to 29 Six are reported dead and the captain is due in court Tuesday.

The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been successfully raised from the under-sea platform it has been resting on for the past year salvage workers say. Competition from jet airliners had not yet had a huge impact in the Mediterranean area and jobs were needed for Italian sailors and shipyard workers so constructing new superliners seemed like an attractive idea to Italian Line executives. Schettino the captain of the Italian cruise liner that ran aground off Italys west coast was arrested on the charges of multiple manslaughter causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship police said.

First published on Sun 2 Jun 2019 0542 EDT. She was often fully booked setting a record for. Many famous naval disasters happen far out at sea but on January 13 2012 the Costa Concordia wrecked just off the coast of an Italian island in relatively shallow water.

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The SS REX is one of the most famous Italian passenger ships ever she held the blue riband for Italy from 1933 to 1935 for the westbound crossing and was decorated in a classic style for the time where the majority of ships were following the recently introduced Art Deco real sand was scattered in the outside swimming-pools in order to promote the publicity that involved the ship as she. Httpsabcnws2EQLcyTOut-of-control cruise ship crashes into tourist boat o. Several of the ships crew notably.

In 1958 the Italian Line began planning new ships to replace the ageing MS Saturnia and MS Vulcania. Cruise Ships Salvage A Wreck For Italian Island Last January an apparent act of maritime bravado went terribly wrong a few yards from the shore of a Tuscan island. It emerged on Tuesday that Italian prosecutors are looking into the cruise ship operators possible role in the wreck and reports of a messy evacuation.