International news sources are reporting that remains located at the ship wreck of the Costa Concordia are of an Italian woman, an Italian prosecutor said.
"The human remains belong to Maria Grazia Trecarichi," prosecutor Francesco Verusio said.
Newspapers quote Trecarichi’s widower Elio Vincenzi saying:
"I have learned from the press that the remains belong to
Yesterday morning, CNN’s New Day aired a short program about Captain Schettino’s testimony at his criminal trial. He claims that he is not to blame for the deadly Concordia disaster.
CNN’s Erin McLaughlin reports on the story.
I was interviewed briefly in the program.
You can read about the story here.
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Tonight at 9:00 P.M. NOVA will air "Why Ships Sink" featuring the story of the recent Costa Concordia and the 100 year old story of the Titanic.
I’m in the program, interviewed at the Port of Miami.
Lots of people thought that once the Costa Concordia was finally brought back from the dead and uprighted in Giglio, the cruise ship would be hauled off into the Italian sunset and taken to a scrapyard for dismantling.
That’s not going to happen anytime soon. As much as we all hope and dream that this
Its been an interesting two days watching the live streaming video of the "parbuckling" project which raised the stricken Costa Concordia out of the sea. The submerged, starboard side of the cruise ship, which has been underwater and resting on the seabed, is now strangely warped and disfigured.
It took some 19 hours to
Twenty months after the Costa Concordia crashed into the rocks and capsized off the coast of Giglio in a maritime disaster that killed 32 people and terrorized thousands others, the cruise ship emerged from the Mediterranean this morning following a spectacular "parbuckling" salvage effort costing over $800 million.
With many millions watching via live streaming
Its been over 20 months since the Costa Concordia sailed into the rocks near the little port of Giglio. Thousands of passengers and crew panicked. 32 souls perished. 2 bodies of the dead remain in the sea.
Here is my first blog about the disaster. Little did I know just how bad the
Monday morning the much talked about "parbuckling" project will finally start to try and raise the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship from the port of Giglio.
I have clicked on the web cams at the port of Giglio hundreds of times since January of 2012 to see what has been happening with the
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal has affirmed an order of dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds of a case filed by an Italian citizen and Italian business for damages as a result of the Costa Concordia disaster.
In a case styled Giglio Sub, S.N.C. and Francesco Onida versus Carnival Corporation et al., the
The big news this weekend in the on-again off-again Costa Concordia trial was the announcement that five Costa employees were sentenced to jail time for manslaughter in the death of 32 Concordia cruise passengers and crew members.
But you will see no photographs of the five men in court in handcuffs because there will be
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
A newspaper in Ireland, the Irish Independent, reports today on the death of Paul O’Brien, age 49, in an article "Dad of Tragic Cruise Teen is Found Dead."
Mr. O’Brien was the father of Lynsey O’Brien, who died at age 15 during a cruise aboard the Costa Magica in 2006. Costa bartenders served the child
In an opinion released yesterday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed a ruling from a federal district court which held that two lawsuits filed after the Costa Concordia disaster, involving 104 cruise passengers, should remain in state court in Miami.
The cases are Abeid-Saba, et al., v. Carnival Corporation and Scimone, et al. v.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports on the case of a Filipino crew member who alleges that her supervisor raped her while she was working on board the MV Costa Classica last year.
The victim worked as a security guard on the cruise ship. She alleges that she was summoned to the security office on the
The Costa Concordia disaster has created some of the weirdest stories I have ever heard of in the field of maritime law. The notion of a playboy captain dining with a young blonde former ship dancer while the cruise ship heads towards disaster would be an improbable movie script if the story were not so
Miami news station WSVN – 7 aired an interesting interview with Francesco Schettino last night and asked: Is he a coward who caused 32 people to die the night his ship the Costa Concordia capsized? Or is he is a professional who did all that he could to avert disaster due to mistakes by his
A newspaper in Italy is reporting that six and one-half years before the Costa Concordia disaster, another Costa cruise ship ruptured its hull during a "sail-by" maneuver off the coast of Capri.
Libero Quotidiano reports that in June 2005, the Costa Fortuna was sailing by the island of Capri off the western side of Italy.
Multiple news sources are reporting that the Italian prosecutors have agreed to drop all criminal charges against Costa Cruises arising out of the Concordia disaster in exchange for a fine of only one million Euro’s.
Just one million Euro’s (around $1.31million) for killing 32 people, including children? What a pittance.
I’m sure Carnival-owned Costa is
