Tag Archives: Costa Concordia
Updated: Carnival Agrees to Pay and Costa Gets a Slap on the Wrist
Update: Carnival Corp has has agreed to reimburse the U.S. government for costs related to the high-profile fires aboard the Carnival Triumph in February and Carnival Splendor in 2010. Read more here. The juxtaposition is priceless. OK, priceless may be the wrong word … Continue reading
Carnival Blames Passengers for Costa Concordia Damages?
If the reporting is accurate, this doesn’t seem like the argument that Carnival should be making. Passengers ‘blamed’ for Concordia damages Costa Cruises parent company Carnival is said to have blamed passengers, at least in part, for the damages they … Continue reading
One Year Ago Today, the Sinking of the Costa Concordia – What Has Changed and What Hasn’t ?
On the island of Giglio in Italy’s Tyrrhenian Sea, relatives of the 32 passengers and crew who died when the Costa Concordia crashed into rocks last year gathered today to mark the one-year anniversary of the tragedy. One year ago today, the cruise ship Costa Concordia … Continue reading
Costa Concordia Salvage on 60 Minutes
The US news program 60 Minutes aired a feature on salvaging the Costa Concordia last night. The operation is the largest and most complex ship salvage in history. Well done and worth watching. Costa Concordia: Salvaging a shipwreck
Giant Mussels Rescued from Costa Concordia Salvage
An unexpected rescue in the salvage of the Costa Concordia. Scientists discovered rare pinna nobilis mussels at the wreck site and are relocating them so that they are not destroyed by the salvage work. Thanks to Phil Leon for pointing … Continue reading
Salvaging the Costa Concordia
While pre-trial hearings are underway in an Italian court, an Italian-American engineering consortium has begun salvage operations to remove the cruise ship, partially capsized off the island of Giglio. It will be the first time a ship of this size has been salvalged … Continue reading
What is Italian for “Chutzpah”? Schettino Sues to Get His Job Back
Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia, who steered his ship into a reef off the island of Giglio and then delayed the order to evacuate the sinking ship, resulting in or contributing to the deaths of 32 passengers and crew, was … Continue reading
Lloyd’s List Awards “Seafarer of the Year” to the Crew of the Costa Concordia
The press release says that the Lloyd’s List Global Awards are “a celebration of the best that shipping industry has to offer and the finalists are the innovators and the visionaries. They are the boldest and the brightest. They are shipping’s success … Continue reading
Update: Costa Concordia – Report Says Captain Schettino to Blame, Crew and Company Also at Fault
Not long after the Costa Concordia struck Le Scole Rock off the island of Giglio, Italy at 9:45 pm on January 13, 2012, Captain Francesco Schettino’s voice can be heard on a voice-data recording muttering, “Madonna, what a mess I’ve … Continue reading
Report: Black Box Not Functioning, Watertight Doors Open When Costa Concordia Hit the Rocks
Extremely disturbing news coming out of Italy regarding the Costa Concordia, which ran aground and sank off the island of Giglio on January 13, 2012 with the deaths of at least 30 passengers. If the reports prove to be true, the ship was sailing with open watertight … Continue reading
Of Stabilizers, Stability and Lawyers
Mississippi lawyer John Arthur Eaves is supposed to be good at his job and is, by reputation, a pretty smart fellow. He recently filed a law suit claiming that the Costa Concordia was “defectively designed,” a “ floating coffin,” had a “propensity … to … Continue reading
Video of Proposed Costa Concordia Salvage
Last Friday we posted about a presentation made by the Titan-Micoperi consortium detailing their plans to salvage the Costa Concordia from the where she sank on January 13th off the island of Giglio, Italy. The plan is to build an underwater platform onto which the ship … Continue reading
Titan-Micoperi Presents Plan to Raise Costa Concordia
Representatives of Titan-Micoperi presented their plans to raise the Costa Concordia from where she sank after running aground off the island of Gilgio last January. Titan-Micoperi is the consortium of Titan Salvage, the Crowley-owned specialist marine salvage company, and Italian marine contractor Micoperi, which … Continue reading
Update: MS Carnival Triumph Allowed to Sail from Galveston, TX in Costa Concordia Lawsuit
Update: The MS Carnival Triumph was allowed to sail as scheduled following last minute negotiations. The 2,758-passenger cruise ship MS Carnival Triumph was supposed to sail today for a five-day cruise to Yucatan and Cozumel. Instead, a Texas judge has ordered the ship … Continue reading
The Costa Concordia’s “Black Box” – A Look at Voyage Data Recorders
What really happened on the Costa Concordia in the final hours leading up to and following her grounding and sinking off Giglio on January 13, 2012? The first step in definitively answering that question began in early March when an Italian judge … Continue reading
Costa Concordia Updates – Ship’s Bell Missing, Salvage Estimate More than 100 Million Euros
The ship’s bell on the Costa Concordia has gone missing. According to Reuters, “underwater thieves have evaded an array of laser systems that measure millimetric shifts in the Costa Concordia shipwreck and 24-hour surveillance by the Italian coast guard and … Continue reading
Costa Concordia Pre-Trial Hearings Begin – Has Anything Changed in Cruise Operations?
In a hearing today in the Tuscan city of Grosseto, Italian Judge Valeria Montesarchio will ask court appointed experts to examine the “black box,” which contains digital recordings of the night of the grounding and sinking of the Costa Concordia off … Continue reading
Costa Allegra: Not A Sister Ship – the Unusual Transformation from Container Ship to Cruise Ship
The headlines from several media sources (see here or here) have referred to the Costa Allegra, the cruise ship adrift in the Indian Ocean after an engine room fire, as a sister ship to the Costa Concordia. A sister ship is generally defined as a “a ship of the … Continue reading
Cruise Ship Costa Allegra Adrift off Seychelles After Fire
Sixteen months after the Carnival Splendor was blacked out by an engine room fire in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico, another Carnival owned cruise ship is drifting, dead in the water, after an engine room fire. The Costa Allegra, a cruise ship … Continue reading
