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« Reply #380 on: July 10, 2012, 02:42:48 PM »

http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=158610
Updated Lawsuit Filed By Costa Concordia Victims
July 10, 2012

New York, NY, July 10, 2012, for immediate release:  This week, victims of the doomed Costa Concordia Cruise Ship that capsized off the Italian coast in January filed a new Complaint against Miami headquartered Carnival Corp., the builder of the Costa Concordia, for product liability, against Carnival’s Miami-based architect for defective ship design and against Carnival for a pattern and practice of concealing and/or delaying notification of life threatening situations to passengers on board their cruise ships, amongst other causes of action. Another claim, alleging wrongful death on behalf of several other parties, is to be filed shortly.

The suit alleges that Carnival was aware that the ship’s hull design and power systems were defective. In February 2010 the hull of Carnival’s Costa Europa was punctured against a dock in Egypt creating a small hole, roughly 1/30th (6 feet) the size of the hole in the Costa Concordia’s hull, yet that ship flooded and listed severely at the cost of multiple lives.  To date, the company refuses to release the incident report relating to the Europa accident to the public.
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« Reply #381 on: July 11, 2012, 04:12:53 PM »

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/10/2890244/updated-lawsuit-in-costa-concordia.html
Updated lawsuit in Costa Concordia incident claims defective ship design
July 10, 2012

Carnival Corporation and its Costa Cruises unit face a new lawsuit in January’s deadly wreck of the Costa Concordia.

Lawyers filed a new claim recently in state court in Miami that alleges the ship had a defective design and the company had a practice of concealing or delaying notification of life threatening situations to passengers.
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According to a news release, plaintiffs in the lawsuit are seeking at least $2 million each in compensation and attorneys say they will demand another $590 million in punitive damages.

Two American law firms are handling the case: Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik & Associates, with offices in New York and Florida, and New York-based Proner & Proner. They are working with Italian firm CODACONS. They filed an earlier suit in January in Miami.
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« Reply #382 on: July 11, 2012, 04:14:19 PM »

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/10/costa-concordia-captain-says-sorry
Costa Concordia captain says sorry
July 10, 2012

ROME -- The captain of the wrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia apologized on Tuesday for the accident in which as many as 32 people died and said he had been distracted when the vast ship struck the rock which holed it.

In his first full television interview since the accident on January 13, Francesco Schettino acknowledged his responsibility as captain and said he thought constantly about the victims of the disaster.

“When there’s an accident, it’s not just the ship that’s identified or the company,” he told Italy’s Canale 5 television, speaking calmly but with a pronounced tic in one eye. “The captain is identified and so it’s normal that I should apologize as a representative of this system,” he said.
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« Reply #383 on: July 11, 2012, 04:16:50 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9391021/Costa-Concordia-captain-says-crash-was-banal-accident.html
Costa Concordia captain says crash was 'banal accident'
July 11, 2012

Francesco Schettino said he was distracted by a phone conversation shortly before the cruise liner crashed into a reef off an Italian island and capsized, killing 32 people.
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Prosecutors have alleged that the Concordia cruised too close to the island in a publicity stunt, and shortly before it rammed the reef Schettino was on the phone with a retired sea captain on Giglio.

"I blame myself for being distracted," Schettino said when asked about the phone call.

Schettino on Tuesday appeared to want to lessen his role, insisting that another official, and not he, was at the helm of the ship at the moment it rammed the reef.
 

"At that moment, I went up to the bridge. I ordered the navigation to be manual, and I didn't have the command. The navigation was being directed by a (lower) official," Schettino said

"This is a banal accident in which destiny found space right in the interaction among human beings," Mr Schettino added, apparently referring to the various officials on the bridge involved in the manoeuvre.

He said that for a captain of a ship, "there is no measure of sorrow" for losing a vessel. However, he said "it's much less" painful than losing a child – a reference to a young Italian girl who was among the dead.

A court hearing later this month in Tuscany on evidence in the case, including information from the ship's "black box" data recorder, could shed light on what went wrong and on who or what is to blame, and likely will figure in a judge's decision on whether Schettino should be ordered to stand trial.

Schettino called the events in the accident "complex," saying "everyone has his own truth," about what happened.
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« Reply #384 on: July 11, 2012, 04:18:49 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9392618/Costa-Concordia-captain-was-in-command-of-ship-when-it-crashed.html
Costa Concordia captain 'was in command of ship when it crashed'
The captain of the Costa Concordia admitted to his superiors "I f-----" up in the moments after the huge cruise liner slammed into a rocky shoal.
By Nick Squires, Rome
3:50PM BST 11 Jul 2012

The audio recording undermines his attempts to pin the blame for the disaster on a junior officer.

Evidence gathered from the black box data recorder of the Costa Concordia appears to contradict his insistence that he was not in charge of the ship when it smashed into the rocky outcrop off the Tuscan island of Giglio.

In his first media interview since the disaster, Francesco Schettino insisted on Tuesday that he was not in command of the cruise ship when it careered into the reef on Jan 13, tearing a huge gash in its hull and leading to the deaths of 32 people, including a five year old girl.

He had dinner with friends, including an ex-dancer from Moldova, then went up onto the bridge, he said.

But he maintained that he did not immediately take charge, telling an Italian television channel that at the time of the collision the 1,000ft ship was being steered by another officer.
"I went up to the bridge. I ordered the navigation to be manual, and I didn't have the command. The navigation was being directed by another officer," Mr Schettino said.

But data recovered from the black box by forensic investigators showed that the captain disabled the automatic pilot and took control of the ship at 9.39pm that night – six minutes before the collision at 9.45pm.
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« Reply #385 on: July 13, 2012, 10:30:04 PM »

Six months later, the Costa Concordia still lies on her side, with 30 dead and two souls still missing.   an angelic monkey
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« Reply #386 on: July 14, 2012, 02:18:30 PM »

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/106060/costa-concordia-victims-remembered-6-months-on
Costa Concordia victims remembered, 6 months on
July 13, 2012

Residents of this Tuscan island and relatives of victims of the Costa Concordia disaster prayed and ships' horns sounded on Friday to mark the six months since the cruise liner ran aground, killing 32 people.
Church bells pealed in the port section of the island at 9:42 p.m. (1942 GMT), the time the 114,500-tonne vessel hit rocks on Jan. 13 after its captain Francesco Schettino brought it too close to shore.

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A huge chunk of rock which had been lodged in the ship's hull was cut and lifted out by crane on Friday and is due to be taken to the island, where part of it will become a memorial to the victims.
It had to be removed in order for the ship, which has lain on its side since the disaster, to be rotated upright before being towed away.
The salvage operation is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
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« Reply #387 on: July 16, 2012, 09:44:29 PM »

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/15/2897054/raising-the-costa-concordia-is.html
Raising the Costa Concordia is expected to be a delicate, difficult job
July 16, 2012

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For now, workers from Pompano Beach-based Titan Salvage and Italian marine firm Micoperi are performing inspections that will wrap up by the end of the month. Exterior portions of the ship have been cut off, and the rock stuck in the ship’s port side is also being removed.

Before attempting to move the ship, the companies will attach heavy cables that are connected to poles in order to keep it from sliding, according to a plan that was released publicly in May.

Once the ship is stabilized, an undersea platform will be built and anchored to the sea floor. Watertight boxes that, like the platform and holdback system will be specially made for the operation, will be attached to the side of the Concordia that is out of the water. The installation of those platforms and boxes, called caissons, is scheduled to be finished by Nov. 15.

On December 1, one of the most sensitive steps of the process is scheduled to start. Two cranes that are fixed to the undersea platform will pull the ship to an upright position in one piece. The boxes on the ship’s side will be filled with water to help it roll.

Once the ship is up, a set of caissons will be attached to the other side as well. Both will be emptied of water and filled with air to help the vessel float again — which is expected to happen by Jan. 15.

If all goes as planned, Concordia will be delivered to an Italian port by Jan. 31. The ship has been declared a constructive total loss, which means the cost of repairing the Concordia would be greater than its value.

Once the ship is gone, the sea floor will be cleaned and flora will be replanted. Work should be fully finished by April 30.

Between 30-200 people will be working on the project at any given time, depending on the phase, Vercellone said.
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« Reply #388 on: July 20, 2012, 02:38:35 PM »

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-19/business/fl-costa-concordia-broward-lawsuit-20120719_1_concordia-passengers-concordia-survivors-costa-concordia
Concordia survivors file lawsuit in Lauderdale
Warrick siblings each seeking $75,000-plus in damages

July 19, 2012

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« Reply #389 on: July 22, 2012, 04:03:29 AM »

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-21/costa-concordia-black-box-to-be-revealed-in-court/4145998
Costa Concordia black box to be revealed in court
Updated July 22, 2012 07:02:33


Findings from the black box of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will be revealed on October 15, an Italian judge said Saturday at a hearing where the data was due to have been presented.

Lawyers representing survivors were at the technical hearing in Grosseto in central Italy where investigative judge Valeria Montesarchio said there had been delays in analysing all the data from the instruments on the ship.
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Nine people are being investigated including three executives from owner Costa Crociere, Europe's biggest cruise operator, and captain Francesco Schettino, who is also suspected of abandoning the ship before the evacuation was completed.

Investigators are probing why the ship was sailing so close to the island at high speed in a "salute" manoeuvre and why the evacuation was delayed for more than an hour after the crash when the giant ship was already tilting badly.

No trial is expected until the beginning of next year at the earliest.
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« Reply #390 on: July 22, 2012, 04:06:13 AM »

http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=4924
Costa Concordia: Black Box Findings Delayed Until October
July 21, 2012

(2:30 p.m. BST) -- The black box recordings of the Costa Concordia will not be revealed until mid-October, an Italian judge said at a hearing today where the data was due to be made public.

Delays in analysing all the data from the ship's instruments mean the pre-trial hearing -- which was opened and adjourned today -- will have to be put back until October 15, Judge Valeria Montesarchio confirmed at a courthouse in Grosseto, central Italy
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Earlier this month, an Italian newspaper published leaked reports claiming the black box recorder was faulty. Watertight doors designed to prevent flooding were left open, the ship had faulty instruments and was using unapproved maps were also cited in the report published by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

One e-mail quoted Costa's technical director Pierfrancesco Ferro telling a repair firm: "The VDR (Voyage Data Recorder) has broken down for the umpteenth time... The situation is becoming unbearable."

Costa Cruises admitted there was report of a fault with the VDR but that it was working on the night that the ship hit a rocky reef and sank off the island of Giglio.

No trial is expected until the beginning of next year at the earliest.
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In a separate development, an Italian newspaper has reported the cruise line has reached a “six-figure” settlement with the family of the youngest victim Dayana Arlotti, 5 years old, who died with her father, Williams Arlotti.
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« Reply #391 on: August 07, 2012, 04:45:10 PM »

http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2012/08/07/law-firm-seeks-400-million-compensation-for-hungarians-death-in-costa-concordia-accident/
Law Firm Seeks $400 Million Compensation for Hungarian’s Death in Costa Concordia Accident
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« Reply #392 on: August 10, 2012, 02:09:50 PM »

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/19245646/boom-in-day-trippers-at-site-of-costa-concordia-wreck
Boom in day-trippers at site of Costa Concordia wreck
August 10, 2012

Tourists visiting the former fishing port of Santo Stefano on Italy's sun-drenched Tuscan coast are being offered a new experience, albeit a slightly macabre one.

For as little as 10 euros ($12), visitors can take a day trip to see the ghostly white wreck of the 114,500-tonne luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia, lying on its side after running aground off Giglio Island on January 13, killing 32 people.

Ticket touts in Santo Stefano, about 15 kilometres (10 miles) east of tiny Giglio, yell out prices as eager day-trippers in shorts and flip-flops wait to board numerous boats heading for the huge shipwreck.
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Giglio's mayor, Sergio Ortelli, who helped provide emergency assistance to the thousands of shocked passengers coming ashore in the hours after the wreck, said the disaster had sparked a day-tripper boom.

"There has been a rise in the number of tourists coming for the day, with curious people taking photos of the giant sprawled on the rocks," he said, adding that Giglio has become in some sense "a sort of museum."

But Ortelli, who also runs a holiday-home and scooter rental agency, said the new day-trip tragedy tourism was doing the picturesque island little good.

"We prefer tourism that's based on the sea and the environment," he said, adding that hotel and holiday let reservations had been hard hit.

The island's environment councillor, Alessandro Centurioni, said he hoped the wreck would be removed as soon as possible.

"The Concordia has become part of our landscape, but it has also spoiled it. Every time I see it, I feel the pain and sadness once more," he said.

If all goes to plan, and weather conditions remain good, the wreck should be stabilised, refloated and removed by spring next year, Ortelli said.
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Investigators are probing why the ship was sailing so close to the island at high speed, and why the evacuation was delayed for more than an hour after the crash when the vessel was already listing badly.

No trial is expected until the beginning of next year at the earliest.
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« Reply #393 on: August 13, 2012, 07:20:08 PM »

http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/story/2012-08-13/Costa-Concordia-salvage-may-be-delayed-until-spring/57033624/1
Costa Concordia salvage may be delayed until spring
August 13, 2012

ROME – Officials say the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship will not be moved from its resting place off Italy's Tuscan coast as quickly as planned.
Giglio island Mayor Sergio Ortelli told reporters Monday that the timetable for removal of the liner, now lying on its side off the island's port, has been pushed back.

The Italian government office overseeing removal said in a statement that the Concordia should be set upright and able to float again by the end of spring 2013, ahead of Giglio's next tourist season.
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« Reply #394 on: August 16, 2012, 07:05:00 PM »

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/16/2955041/costa-concordia-removal-delayed.html
Costa Concordia removal delayed
August 16, 2012

 Removal of the Costa Concordia shipwreck, originally scheduled for completion by January of 2013, will be delayed until spring.

The consortium hired to refloat and remove the wreck from the waters off the coast of Italy told the Osservatorio, the entity supervising the operations, about the new timeline this week.
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The Italian cruise operator, owned by Carnival Corp., said the timeline also allows time for subcontractors to deliver all the parts needed for the complicated job.

Costa said the plans are being constantly updated, including revisions needed to the installation of underwater supports and drilling techniques.
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« Reply #395 on: August 18, 2012, 09:30:32 AM »

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2012/08/15/italian-agency-receives-costa-concordia-removal-plan.aspx?admgarea=news
Italian Agency Receives Costa Concordia Removal Plan
Titan Salvage and Micoperi, the two companies hired to remove the cruise ship, presented their engineering plan to the agency supervising the removal.

April 15, 2012

The Costa Concordia, a giant cruise ship grounded on an Italian island since Jan. 13, may finally be moving again. The two companies hired to remove the ship, the U.S. company Titan Salvage and the Italian company Micoperi, announced they presented their engineering and design plan Aug. 13 to Osservatorio and the Italian Civil Protection Department.

Osservatorio is the "entity responsible for supervising and monitoring the Costa Concordia’s wreck removal operations," according to Titan's Aug. 14 news release.
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The removal plan has a new timeline, with refloating of the wreck to be completed by spring 2013. "The time schedule is dependent in part upon subcontractor deliverables and schedules, and will preserve the upcoming summer season," the release stated.
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« Reply #396 on: September 06, 2012, 02:58:39 PM »

The Costa Concordia possibly still has the remains of two of the missing.  It should be considered a grave until the bodies are recovered imo.  The bodies could possibly be on the seabed also, but until the bodies are found, folks should be mindful of the two missing. 

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/332231
Costa Concordia contest unsanctioned by Giglio Island or company
September 5, 2012

A contest from an architectural research group at Italy's Università degli Studi di Catania seeks creative things to do with the partially submerged Costa Concordia. However, the island the ship sits 300 meters from won't be listening to the winner
The Italian news agency, ANSA, upon hearing of the contest to find the best idea of what to do with the ship, contacted the mayor of Giglio and discovered the research group is conducting the contest on its own and results won't be implemented. "Giglio Island has no need for any ideas contest on the future of its landscape," Mayor Sergio Ortelli told ANSA.
ICSplat is a research 'platform' at the Università degli Studi di Catania (Univ. of Catania) in Sicily - one of the world's oldest universities - that focuses on landscape and new forms of architecture. The deadline for submission is Sept. 25. The website for ICSplat says that the competition "has the aim of stimulating new future visions for the Giglio Island and the shipwreck, which will become as part of the same landscape and with the same identity."
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« Reply #397 on: September 06, 2012, 03:00:12 PM »

http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/11717/Costa-Concordia-anchoring-marks-first-phase-of-ship-recovery.html
Costa Concordia anchoring marks first phase of ship recovery
September 6, 2012

(ANSA) - Grossetto, September 6 - Preliminary work to remove the doomed Costa Concordia cruise liner from Giglio Island began Thursday. Workers are attempting to anchor the wreck with cables so that it can be carefully turned upright and then re-floated away from the island. It is expected that this first phase of anchoring the wreck will be completed by Sept. 19.
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« Reply #398 on: September 06, 2012, 03:01:41 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9525715/Costa-Concordia-captain-Madonna-what-have-I-done.html
Costa Concordia captain: 'Madonna, what have I done?'
The captain of the Costa Concordia told passengers that the giant cruise ship was simply suffering a power cut despite suspecting that it was rapidly sinking after it smashed into a reef off the Italian island of Giglio in January.

September 6, 2012

n fresh evidence that emerged on Thursday, recorded conversations from the bridge of the cruise liner show that Capt Francesco Schettino feared that the ship was "going down".

"Madonna, what have I done?" he was recorded as saying just seconds after the huge ship rammed into the reef at 9.45pm.

In a frantic call to the officer in command of the ship's engine room, he asked: "So are we really going down?"

But three minutes later, at 9.54pm, he told an officer on the bridge not to tell passengers of the true extent of the disaster. "Say that there has been a blackout," he ordered.

Eight minutes later he allegedly made a similarly false assurance to the Italian Coast Guard. "We've had a blackout, we're just evaluating ... at most we're going to need a tug boat."
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« Reply #399 on: September 14, 2012, 09:11:11 PM »

http://www.toledoblade.com/World/2012/09/13/Italian-experts-fault-captain-crew-owner-for-grounding-of-Costa-Concordia.html
Italian experts fault captain, crew, owner for grounding of Costa Concordia
September 13, 2012

ROME — Court-appointed experts have pointed the finger of blame primarily at the captain of a cruise ship that ran aground off Italy, but also faulted the crew and ship owner for a series of blunders, delays and security breaches that contributed to the disaster and the deaths of 32 people.

The Costa Concordia ran aground and capsized Jan. 13 off the Tuscan island of Giglio after Capt. Francesco Schettino took it off course in a stunt. He is accused of causing the shipwreck, manslaughter and abandoning the ship before all passengers were evacuated.

Eight other people are also under investigation, and the court in Grosseto ordered the expert investigation to help it determine which if any should be put on trial. A hearing is scheduled for next month.

In a 270-page analysis, the experts said a series of problems hobbled the response to Schettino's maneuver and contributed to the botched evacuation: crew members bungled directions, didn't understand orders and weren't trained or certified in security and emergency drills.

And they said ship owner Costa Crociere delayed alerting coastal authorities about the emergency — a charge Costa denied Thursday.

In a statement, Costa said by law it was Schettino who was supposed to have alerted authorities about the accident, and that the captain assured the Costa crew on land that he had done so. And regardless, Costa said, Schettino's reports to Costa's headquarters were so delayed, partial and confused that the company couldn't discern how serious the emergency was.

And Costa firmly rejected the experts' claims that the crew was unprepared for emergencies, saying the "alleged defects in the certifications of some of the crew" didn't affect the evacuation.
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