Italian Cruise Ship That Sank

The captain of the cruise ship has been detained for questioning by Italian authorities as Titanic-like tales of survival emerged among angry passengers.

Italian cruise ship that sank. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. The ship is being towed to a port in Genoa Italy. Jan 16 2012 at 947 AM Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy.

Francesco Schettino were charged with various crimes. Born 14 November 1960 is an Italian former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when it struck an underwater rock and capsized with the deaths of 32 passengers and crew off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012. Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

In 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Tuscany claiming 32 lives. The Italian ship which crashed January 13 2012 off the coast of Italy after hitting a rock was a tragedy that captured international headlines following dozens of deaths of passengers. Sinking When the Costa Concordia a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation partly sank last year off Giglio Italy killing 32 people after hitting a submerged rock it was one of the first times a cruise ship had done so since the Explorer in 2007.

Francesco Schettino the captain of the Costa Concordia returned on Thursday to the stricken cruise ship more than two years after leaving it in a. Enzo RussoEPA The captain of. Typically cruise ships that sink are those sailing in inhospitable waters like the Antarctic Ocean or ships belonging to smaller lines.

What the couple felt was the ship hitting a rocky sandbar ripping a 160 foot gash in the ships hull similar to the damage that sank the TitanicThe hull then started to fill with water. Schettino is charged with multiple manslaughter over the 32 people who lost their lives and is accused of abandoning the ship while terrified passengers were still inside in the January 13 2012 disaster. From 1980 to 2012 about 16 ships have sunk.

Costa Concordia the Italian cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy in January 2012 is finally leaving her resting place. What happened Thirty-two people died after the Costa Concordia cruis ship ran aground with more than 4000 passengers and crew on 13 January 2012 only hours after leaving the. Similarly how many cruise ships sink a year.