March 19, 2024, 02:03:10 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: NEW CHILD BOARD CREATED IN THE POLITICAL SECTION FOR THE 2016 ELECTION
 
   Home   Help Login Register  
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 »   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: Cruise Liner Costa Concordia Aground in Italy - 30 Dead & 2 Unaccounted For  (Read 209844 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #580 on: October 03, 2013, 03:26:05 PM »

http://news.sky.com/story/1149706/costa-concordia-divers-find-more-remains
Costa Concordia Divers Find More Remains
The latest discovery comes a week after divers recovered remains which had been in the sea for 20 months.
October 3, 2013

Divers have recovered what could be more human remains from the sea off Tuscany where the Costa Concordia cruise liner sank last year.

The latest discovery was announced by Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency, the organisation in charge of the wreck.

"Other remains have also been found and are currently undergoing DNA tests," Mr Gabrielli said.
 
Experts are planning to go inside the ship to retrieve some of the Concordia's computers, to try to discover why backup generators and other equipment failed to work immediately after the collision.
 
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #581 on: October 09, 2013, 09:51:13 PM »

The remains found on the third deck haven't been officially identified yet, however there appear to be indications it may be Mr. Rebello. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24444071
Costa Concordia wreck: Remains of Indian waiter 'found'
October 8, 2013

Divers searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia off the Italian coast may have found the remains of one of two people still missing, officials say.

Italy's civil protection agency said it believed the remains belonged to Russel Rebello, an Indian waiter.

An Italian passenger, Maria Grazia Trecarichi, is still unaccounted for.
 
"The remains have been found by rescuers on the third deck" of the cruise ship, said a civil protection agency spokeswoman, Francesca Maffini.

"Several elements make us say that they could relate to the body of the young waiter of Indian nationality, Russel Rebello," she said.

The agency the results would not be confirmed for several days, but said Mr Rebello's family had been informed about the development.


An earlier announcement by the authorities that they had found the remains of two human bodies was subsequently played down.

The search for the two people who remained unaccounted for resumed on 24 September, a week after the wreck of the cruise ship had been moved to an upright position and stabilised.

Officials have made the recovery of the remaining bodies a priority.

Divers had previously focussed their search for the two missing people on the fourth deck of the Costa Concordia, where they had reportedly been seen for the last time on the evening of the accident.
 
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #582 on: October 09, 2013, 10:00:12 PM »

http://news.discovery.com/history/body-found-trapped-inside-costa-concordia-131008.htm
Body Found Trapped Inside Costa Concordia
October 8, 2013

Divers searching the Costa Concordia wreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio recovered on Tuesday the body of one of two lost victims who died in the cruise ship disaster.

Found in the submerged part of the ship, in an advanced state of decay, the body is believed to be that of Indian waiter Russel Rebello.

It was trapped near the third deck at the back of the ship, close to one of the restaurants, in an area where dishes were washed.

Italy’s Civil Protection agency said it has informed the Rebello’s family

A Mumbai native, 33-year-old Rebello began working on the Costa Concordia just a few months before the disaster.
 
As the ship tumbled onto its side on Jan. 13, 2012, it claimed 32 lives. Among them was Italian passenger Maria Grazia Trecarichi, who was celebrating her 50th birthday with her 17-year-old daughter. Her daughter survived, but Trecarichi is still missing.
 
A married father-of-two, Rebello is one of the heroes of the Concordia. When the cruise ship struck the rocks off Giglio Island, he was in his cabin, sick with high fever. He immediately went out on the decks to help passengers to safety and even gave one his own lifejacket.

Witnesses last saw Rebello as as he was making his way to a muster station at the restaurant by the stern.
 
Franco Gabrielli, the head of the Civil Protection agency, announced two weeks ago the recovery of bone remains on the ship’s deck 4.

Results of DNA testing have not been released, but rumors in the Italian media suggest the remains were animal.

http://news.discovery.com/history/costa-concordia-dark-side-photos-130920.htm
Dark Side of Costa Concordia in Photos

http://news.discovery.com/history/costa-concordia-final-night-130916.htm

Costa Concordia's Final Night on Giglio's Shore
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #583 on: October 11, 2013, 09:46:29 PM »

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/512310/20131008/costa-concordia-trial-schettino-women-bridge-uniform.htm
Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino Trial: ‘Several Women on Bridge as Ship Hit Reef’
October 8, 2013

Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #584 on: October 11, 2013, 09:55:07 PM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24483469
Huge salvage vessel may help lift Costa Concordia wreck
October 10, 2013


A computer graphic showing how the salvage operation would look

The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship could be loaded aboard a colossal salvage vessel after a deal was struck with a Dutch company.

The Dockwise Vanguard, capable of picking up oil rigs, has been recruited as an option to move the ship.

The vessel can sink under the Concordia then rise up to lift it clear of the water before sailing it to be scrapped.
 
Costa Crociere, Concordia's owner, said the Vanguard had been retained as one possible option for removing the wreck from its current location off Giglio island in 2014.

It said the $30m (£19m) contract to use the salvage vessel would offer a "safe and swift" method to transport the cruise ship to its as yet undetermined final destination.

The company said the operation is the biggest salvage ever attempted on a ship of the Concordia's size.

The 275m-long (902ft) Vanguard has no bow and a flat stern, allowing it to contain the longer cruise ship.

The Vanguard, described by its Dutch owner Royal Boskalis as the world's largest semi-submersible ship, uses vast ballast tanks to lower and raise itself around its cargo.

The company said modifications would need to be made before it is capable of carrying Concordia.
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #585 on: October 11, 2013, 09:57:21 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10373007/Worlds-biggest-submersible-hired-to-remove-Costa-Concordia-from-Giglio.html
World's biggest submersible hired to remove Costa Concordia from Giglio
October 10, 2013

The 114,500 tonne liner, which smashed into rocks off the tiny island, could be taken away to be broken up for scrap by the giant Dockwise Vanguard.
The semi-submersible Vanguard is owned by a Dutch marine salvage company, Royal Boskalis NV, which announced that it had won a $30 million (£19 million) contract for the operation.
But Costa Cruises, which owns the Concordia, said using the Vanguard was one of two options being studied.
The alternative would be to refloat the cruise ship with the aid of huge steel boxes welded to its flanks and then to tow it away with tug boats.
“The $30 million is a sort of booking guarantee, so that the Vanguard’s availability is assured and we can use it if that is judged to be the best option,” said Rosella Carrara, a Costa Cruises spokeswoman.
More...
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #586 on: October 29, 2013, 04:34:20 PM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24733882
Costa Concordia trial: Captain's lover was on bridge
October 29, 2013

A Moldovan dancer who was on the bridge of the Costa Concordia with Captain Francesco Schettino has admitted she was his lover at his trial.

Domnica Cemortan testified that she was in a romantic relationship with the captain and was with him when the cruise ship ran aground off the north-west Italian coast.

Capt Schettino faces multiple charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship.

The January 2012 tragedy killed 32 people.

The captain faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Ms Cemortan has been the subject of intense media interest, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome. On the night the Costa Concordia ran aground, she had dinner with the captain before he invited her to join him on the bridge as he oversaw what was meant to be a close sail-past of the little Tuscan island of Giglio.

Local press have speculated the captain may have been distracted by her presence, or even showing off.

In court, Ms Cemortan acknowledged after being pressed that they had been romantically involved. She had boarded the ship as a non-paying passenger hours before the crash, she said, adding: "When you are someone's lover, no-one asks you for a ticket." She subsequently dismissed the remark as a joke to her translator.

She said she had worked for the company that operated the Costa Concordia for about three weeks in December 2011, and had met Capt Schettino on a previous cruise.

After the ship hit the rocks, Ms Cemortan said the captain urged her to "save herself".

She told court that she helped other passengers to abandon ship before getting into a lifeboat herself.

More...
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #587 on: November 04, 2013, 04:25:48 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10425252/Moldovan-dancer-denies-she-distracted-Costa-Concordia-captain.html
Moldovan dancer denies she distracted Costa Concordia captain
Domnica Cemortan says her presence on bridge did not distract Captain Schettino on night of shipwreck at Italian island of Giglio
November 4, 2013


Domnica Cemortan, 26, had dinner with Capt Schettino, 53, in a restaurant on board the cruise liner and was then invited onto the bridge by him, about 15 minutes before the ship smashed into rocks, a collision that prompted a panic-stricken evacuation. Photo: lessandro La Rocca - LaPresse/Photoshot

The Moldovan dancer who admitted having an affair with Capt Francesco Schettino, the commander of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, has insisted her presence on the bridge did not distract him on the night that the liner ploughed into the island of Giglio.
Domnica Cemortan, 26, had dinner with Capt Schettino, 53, in a restaurant on board the cruise liner and was then invited onto the bridge by him, about 15 minutes before the ship smashed into rocks, a collision that prompted a panic-stricken evacuation.
“It’s very easy for Italians to think that the blonde, the Moldovan dancer, distracted the captain. But I didn’t,” the single mother of one told an Italian television programme on Sunday.
Ms Cemortan had publicly and repeatedly denied having a relationship with the married captain but was forced to admit the affair last week under intense cross-examination in a court in Grosseto, Tuscany, where Capt Schettino is on trial for manslaughter, causing a maritime disaster and abandoning ship before all of its 4,200 passengers and crew had been evacuated.
She told the programme, Domenica Live (Sunday Live) that she felt sorry for Capt Schettino’s wife, but that he knew what he was doing when the pair embarked on a two-week fling on the Concordia the month before the accident.
 
“With regard to his wife and family, I don’t consider myself the only person responsible.
“He’s a man, not a boy.”
She insisted their affair had “nothing to do with the accident” and should have remained a private matter.
Ms Cemortan claimed the relationship should not be called an “affair” because it was so brief.
“Being someone’s lover means having a relationship lasting six months, not two weeks. My relationship with him began a week after I joined the Concordia. He was charming, an elegant man. But I don’t think I’ll ever get involved with a married man again.”
It was deeply unfair that Capt Schettino was the only person facing criminal charges for the accident of Jan 13, 2012, which caused the deaths of 32 people, she said.
Five other ship’s officers and employees of Costa Cruises, the Italian owner of the liner, were convicted of manslaughter earlier this year but struck plea bargains in which they were each sentenced to less than three years in prison.
 
Costa Cruises, Europe’s biggest cruise operator and a subsidiary of US-based Carnival Corp, negotiated a plea bargain in which it accepted limited responsibility and paid a one million euro fine.

Capt Schettino’s trial resumes on Nov 11.
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #588 on: November 18, 2013, 09:10:20 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10439080/British-diver-arrested-for-souvenir-hunting-on-Costa-Concordia-wreck.html
British diver 'arrested for souvenir-hunting on Costa Concordia wreck'
A British diver is among four salvage workers who have been arrested on suspicion of illegally boarding the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship to search for souvenirs
November 10, 2013

The man, who has not been named by police, allegedly climbed on board the vessel late on Thursday night with an Irishman and two South Africans, all employees of salvage firm Salvage Consortium Titan-Micoperi which is working to remove the ship from rocks on the Italian island of Giglio, where it capsized last year.
Caught by CCTV set up on an off limits area of the ship, the men were arrested by officers of the Italian Carabinieri police and found in possession of an empty rucksack bearing the cruise ship’s company logo, an investigative source said.
“The men, who were relatively new arrivals on the island, have been released pending a possible trial,” said the source. Charges could include theft and illegally entering a crime scene which is still officially sealed off.
In a statement, Titan said “The company has taken immediate action to remove (the) workers from the project.”
 
Thieves stole the ship’s brass bell three months after the incident, although security on board has been tight since the ship was righted. Search teams combing the cabins and corridors have located the body of the Maria Grazia Trecarichi, one of two passengers whose bodies were not found, but are yet to find the body of Indian waiter Russel Rebello.
“Searching will only now resume when the ship is in a dock, drained of water,” said the police source.
The Italian court which is now trying the ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, for manslaughter, has meanwhile allowed salvage workers to start removing passengers’ cabin safes from the ship, following a request from consumers’ group Codacons, which said “the contents can now finally be restored to their legitimate owners.”
The removal of the safes, albeit only those which have remained above water, will help salvage workers lighten the vessel as much as possible to ensure it floats as high in the water as possible when it is raised from the underwater platform on which it currently sits.
The safes will be taken to a court-appointed warehouse at Talamone on the Italian mainland where the contents will be matched with owners, said a spokewoman for the ship’s operator, Costa Crociere.

Titan is meanwhile working to protect the ship from being shattered by winter storms by fixing steel braces between it and the underwater platform and padding its landward side with sacks of cement to stop it moving, she added.
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #589 on: November 18, 2013, 09:14:46 PM »

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/12/world/europe/italy-costa-concordia/
Costa Concordia captain didn't fall, but jumped into lifeboat, crew member testifies
November 12, 2013

Rome (CNN) -- The captain of the Costa Concordia did not "fall" into a lifeboat after the ship hit rocks, as he contends, a crew member testified. Instead, Francesco Schettino "jumped into the lifeboat," Stefano Iannelli said.
 
Iannelli, who was on the bridge when the ship hit the outcropping, testified that Schettino's reaction was, "What have I done?!"
As part of his defense for the abandoning ship charge, Schettino has maintained that by the time he left the crippled vessel, the inclination made it impossible to stay on the ship. He told the court at a hearing in October that the ship was literally falling on top of him and he fell into the lifeboat. The ship ended up lying on its side.
Iannelli, who followed Schettino off the ship, testified Monday that he did not see passengers when they left the vessel, even though more than 1,000 people were later rescued from the ship. In a taped conversation between the captain and the port authority in Livorno, the port authority ordered Schettino to "get back on board" while passengers were still being rescued from the other side of the ship.
Schettino, who admits that he was in command when the ship veered off course and hit the rocks, also blames a malfunction of the ship's watertight doors for making the situation worse. His defense lawyers say that created a new emergency after the initial accident.
On Tuesday, the court heard testimony from Hugo Di Piazza, a technician who was working in the engine room when Schettino hit the rocks.
The court heard a taped call from Di Piazza and the bridge in which he is heard saying that "something" had ripped a 70-meter (230-foot) gash in the hull and warning that the engine rooms were flooding.
"A 10-foot jet of water hit my back," Di Piazza told the court. He said he then closed the watertight doors but the "water infiltrated" the seals.
If the watertight doors had functioned, Schettino's defense maintains, the ship would have stayed upright and afloat despite the fact that it had picked up an 80-ton boulder from the seabed.
After losing power, the Costa Concordia glided past the port of Giglio and then made a 180-degree turn back toward the port before capsizing.
Di Piazza said he narrowly escaped the flooded engine rooms. "I opened other doors but the water kept rising," he told the court before describing how he and another technician escaped to the upper control platform and the engine room flooded.
The court also heard an intercepted telephone conversation a week after the accident in which Di Piazza said that Schettino seemed oblivious to the gravity of the situation.
"He didn't understand the situation. We were idiots and he didn't give a damn if we died," Di Piazza said.
After Tuesday's testimony from crew members, the trial will resume next week with testimony from traumatized passengers who survived the incident. Schettino is expected to testify before the end of the year.
 Schettino argues that he is a hero who saved the lives of more than 4,000 people, not a villain whose negligence led to the deaths of 32. In addition to blaming the watertight doors, the captain's attorneys also say the ship would not have crashed had the helmsman turned it in the direction that Schettino told him to 13 seconds before impact.
The helmsman, Jacob Rusli Bin, and four others were convicted in a plea deal in July for their role in the disaster. A Florence court is considering the validity of those plea bargain agreements.
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #590 on: November 18, 2013, 09:16:51 PM »

http://news.sky.com/story/1170380/costa-concordia-captain-delayed-rescue-call
Costa Concordia Captain 'Delayed' Rescue Call
Francesco Schettino's trial hears the order to abandon ship was not given until an hour after the cruise liner hit rocks.

November 18, 2013
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #591 on: November 25, 2013, 02:26:14 PM »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513207/Everything-control-Costa-Concordia-crew-member-reveals-ordered-tell-passengers-return-cabins-moments-ship-sank.html
'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
November 25, 2013


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.
 
Mrs Quine said: 'I was ordered to tell the passengers everything was under control. I was told to say that there was a blackout and everyone should return to their cabins and that things would be returning to normal as quickly as possible.

'But people were agitated and worried - they wanted to get onto the lifeboats but the order didn't come.
When the passengers got to the muster stations I was told to try and calm them down, to reassure them.'
 

Mrs Quine broke down in tears as she told the hearing in the Italian town of Grosseto: 'I made announcements in English, Spanish and Italian. I called my boss and he said the crew were frightening the passengers with what they were saying.

'Children were hugging their parents, two little ones lost and a were trying to find them. Reliving everything again now is really hard for me now. The passengers wanted to get onboard the lifeboats.

'They were pushing each other, trying to get on but we didn't have the order to let them get onboard. I had to tell everyone that there was an electrical problem and everything was going to return to normal.

'Eventually the order to abandon ship came from the second officer - I made a human chain with others to get onto a lifeboat and there must have been around 150 people in it.

'When I looked back the ship had capsized. Everyone on the lifeboat was so scared and so was I. I prayed to God for help asking him to help us and to help me so that I knew what to tell the passengers.'
 
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #592 on: December 28, 2013, 07:25:27 PM »

http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Parbuckling-Update-Costa-Concordia-Stable-Winterization-Ongoing-2013-12-16/
[Parbuckling Update] Costa Concordia Stable, 'Winterization' Ongoing
December 16, 2013

The Concordia is stable. After some minor movements registered in the 15 days following the parbuckling, the wreck has settled on the platform and seabed. Since then, the monitoring systems - active 24/7 - have not indicated any significant movement.

The winterization operations are almost completed and the last details will be finished next week.
 
Finally, Costa informed the public that 405 safes have been removed from the dry cabins onboard the wreck in agreement with judicial authorities; contents will be inventoried and handed back to their owners.
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #593 on: December 28, 2013, 07:27:41 PM »

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/12/16/Light-sentences-to-Costa-Concordia-staff-members-will-be-appealed/UPI-28501387224000/
Light sentences to Costa Concordia staff members will be appealed
December 16, 2013

ROME, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Light jail sentences given in a plea bargain to five Costa Concordia staff members will be appealed in Italy's Supreme Court, prosecutors said Monday.
On Jan. 31 the Court of Cassation will review sentences handed down in manslaughter trials after the ship ran aground last year off the coast of Tuscany, killing 32 people, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Prosecutors in Florence, Italy, are contesting light jail sentences given in July to crisis management chief Roberto Ferrarini, hotel quarters director Manrico Giampedroni, first officer Ciro Ambosio, officer Silvia Coronica and helmsmen Jacob Rusli, ranging from one year and six months to two years and 10 months.

Each was accused of multiple manslaughter, and prosecutors said the suspects did not earn their plea bargains, "having made no particular contribution to the investigations" with their "generic testimony."
More...
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #594 on: January 15, 2014, 09:27:13 PM »

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-costa-concordia-two-years-later-2014-1
Two Years Ago The Costa Concordia Capsized Off The Coast Of Italy — Here's What It Looks Like Now
June 13, 2014

On January 13th, 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship hit a rock by the Isola del Giglio off the coast of Tuscany. The ship began to take on water, eventually falling onto its side. There were 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, and in the chaotic scenes that followed as the boat collapsed into the sea, 32 people never made it off.
To mark the two-year anniversary, the Associated Press reports, survivors and locals alike held mass in the local church that welcomed in survivors after the disaster.
More...

Photos at Link
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #595 on: January 15, 2014, 09:28:33 PM »

Whoops!  My mistake.  The date on the article above ^^^^ should be January 13, 2014, not June. 
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #596 on: January 15, 2014, 09:32:46 PM »

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/9608591/Survivors-remember-Costa-Concordia-disaster
Survivors remember Costa Concordia disaster
January 14, 2014

Survivors of the capsized Costa Concordia have marked two years since the cruise ship grounded off Italy with a candlelight march on Giglio island and a moment of silence in the courtroom where the captain is on trial.

Relatives of the 32 people killed in the crash also threw a wreath into the sea Monday and attended a Mass in the island's church that had welcomed in hundreds of passengers on the cold night of January 13, 2012 when the Concordia slammed into a reef and capsized.
 
On the mainland, judges and survivors alike stood in silence inside the theatre-turned-courtroom in Grosseto where Captain Francesco Schettino stands accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the Concordia before all passengers had been evacuated.

Passengers came from as far away as Russia and Britain to attend the hearing, but it was adjourned almost immediately after the commemoration because of a lawyers' strike.

Schettino, who didn't attend the session, has said he's innocent and saved lives.

Residents of Giglio, meanwhile, are finally seeing the end of their ordeal, with June set as the date to remove the hobbled wreck from the island's port.
More...
Video at Link
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #597 on: January 25, 2014, 03:49:57 PM »

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/01/23/Judges-experts-tour-Costa-Concordia-cruise-ship-that-hit-rock/UPI-80961390517094/
Judges, experts tour Costa Concordia, cruise ship that hit rock
January 23, 2014

A lawyer for the captain of the Costa Concordia, the Italian cruise ship that hit a rock in January 2012, said Thursday the vessel's bridge has been altered.
The captain, Francesco Schettino, has been charged with manslaughter and dereliction of duty. His lawyer, Domenico Pepe, said changes to the bridge command center might have been made by "people who had no interest in clarifying things," the Italian news agency ANSA reported.


Pepe said there is no way now of determining how the bridge command center was arranged at the time the vessel hit a rock of the island of Giglio.

The vessel had been sitting on its side, semi-submerged until it was brought to the surface last summer.

Three judges, accompanied by court-appointed experts and lawyers for Costa Cruises inspected the ship Thursday. They were the first party to board the Costa Concordia since it was righted.
 
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #598 on: January 25, 2014, 03:52:56 PM »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544772/Investigators-people-board-Concordia-sank-bid-CLEAR-captain-blame-disaster.html
Investigators become the first people to board the Concordia since it sank... in a bid to CLEAR its captain of blame for the disaster
January 24, 2014

* Engineers and legal experts will inspect the Costa Concordia to look for cause for the shipwreck beyond human error
* Captain Francesco Shettino is currently the only person on trial following the shipwreck, charged with manslaughter
* The captain and others claim that some of the blame lies with the Concordia's owners, Costa Crociere SpA
* The experts and investigators will examine the entire ship, just after the 2 year anniversary of the shipwreck

More...


Lot's of large photos in article at above link.
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
MuffyBee
Former Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 44737



« Reply #599 on: January 25, 2014, 03:54:28 PM »

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/23/costa-concordia-cruise-ship/4796347/
Costa Concordia boarded by experts as probe continues
AP 12:56 p.m. EST January 23, 2014

GROSSETO, Italy (AP) - Experts have boarded the Costa Concordia cruise liner to investigate whether there is more to the ship's sinking than is contained in the prosecutors' case against its captain.

A team on Thursday examined the bridge and elevators of the ship, which sank Jan. 13, 2012, killing 32 people, and was righted on site in September. Experts are trying to determine if any factors beyond human error contributed to the shipwreck, and next month they will examine the emergency generators.

A judge granted a request for the onboard investigation sought by Capt. Francesco Schettino's defense and a consumer group representing victims.
 
Logged

  " Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  - Daniel Moynihan
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 »   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Use of this web site in any manner signifies unconditional acceptance, without exception, of our terms of use.
Powered by SMF 1.1.13 | SMF © 2006-2011, Simple Machines LLC
 
Page created in 2.169 seconds with 19 queries.