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Last Friday night, around 1:30 A.M., a fire broke out in the engine room of the Costa Magica.
A passenger brought the event to my attention, indicating that there were several conflicting announcements from the cruise ship’s captain regarding where the fire broke out. The passenger indicated that the fire lasted over an hour.
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A Norwegian television station is reporting that a woman went overboard today from what is described as an "Italian cruise ship" near Flåm, Norway. The woman was critically injured.
TV 2 Nyhetene reports that the woman is 40 years of age and she went overboard after a violent episode with another person on the cruise ship.
After a nineteen month long trial, the three judges presiding over the Costa Concordia trial sentenced Captain Francisco Schettino to sixteen (16) years in jail for manslaughter, causing the disaster and abandoning ship. The sentence was broken down as follows; ten (10) years for multiple counts of manslaughter, five (5) years for causing the shipwreck
Today, the body of Costa crew member Russel Rebello was found in the salvaged wreck of the Costa Concordia. His remains were the last to be removed from the ill-fated cruise ship.
Mr. Rebello was known to his fellow crew members as a warm, friendly and always-smiling young man. He was last seen going
The criminal trial against Captain Schettino finally started this week but, believe it or not, was suspended due to a national strike of lawyers in Italy.
Captain Schettino showed up for the first day at the theater in Grosseto where the trial will be held. The paparazzi photographed him wearing a snappy blue sports
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A company called Team Black Sheep, specializing in remote controlled, model-copter photography and video services, captured some interesting images while travelling to Giglio, the site of the infamous Costa Concordia disaster.
Using a device referred to as a "quadrocopter," which they flew over the port of Giglio, the Black Sheet Team recorded video of
NBC News has an interesting article about the continuing struggle many survivors of the Costa Concordia disaster are experiencing one year later.
The victims’ anguish has been exacerbated by the insensitivity demonstrated by Costa and parent company Carnival.
A memorial service for the victims will mark the anniversary tomorrow.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640
With the one year anniversary of the Costa Concordia capsizing this Sunday, there are literally several hundreds new articles on line about the disaster.
This morning CBS News aired a video (below) and published an article Costa Concordia 1 Year Later: Survivors Attempt to Move On in which several survivors explain how they are
A newspaper in Italy has posted a video of the frantic last moments of the evacuation of the stricken Costa Concordia.
The video obtained by La Repubblica is taken by a bystander from the island of Giglio. The cruise ship has already listed heavily to the starboard side and the water has risen
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The Week magazine in the U.K. reports that Italian lawyers are filing a criminal complaint against Carnival CEO Micky Arison as well as other American and British directors of Costa’s dual listed parent companies, Carnival Corporation and Carnival PLC.
The article written by Andrea Vogt, "Costa Concordia: UK Directors to be Named Responsible for