The Story Of The Costa Concordia

This is it, it's over for us. What's up guys? My name is Jake. I remember on the night of January 13, 2012, I saw a news report stating that a Costa cruise ship had run aground off the coast of Italy. It wasn't until the next morning. As the first images began to appear, I saw the full magnitude of a tragedy that would not only change the cruise industry forever, but would become the most infamous ship disaster after the Titanic. Today I wanted to tell the incredible and truly unfathomable

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of the sinking. of Costa Concordia, so Costa cruise lines or Costa, however you want to pronounce them, are owned by Carnival Corporation.

It was founded in the mid-19th century and eventually became a fairly prominent European cruise line. It was eventually purchased by Carnival in 2000 and construction began. ships based on designs that were already having much success for Carnival Costa began to order ships based on the general design of the Carnival Conquest class, just another 4,000 tons larger. In 2004, Costa commissioned the first ship of its new class, called Costa Concordia, the ship was completed construction and entered service for Costa on June 30, 2006 at a cost of five hundred and seventy million dollars. At that time the ship was the largest in the Costa fleet measuring nine hundred and fifty and two feet long had a beam of 116 feet thirteen wingspan On public decks and had a maximum speed of 23 knots, the Concordia was the new flagship of the coastal fleet and the company ensured that the ship would be the best that they had to offer without being anything so drastically different from before.

Carnival and Coast of Ships featured a massive two-

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spa along with four pools, with the ship's central pool featuring an outdoor movie screen and the children's and family pool ending in a winding water slide below the upper decks. The ship would have five restaurants. bars and the grand atrium in which 10 Dorries stood was the culmination of everything the modern cruise industry had to offer and truly was Carnival Corporation's new shining star. She really was a huge modern cruiser. The Costa Concordia had 1,502 guest cabins and 601 crew cabins. allowing the ship to carry a maximum of four thousand eight hundred and ninety people after Concordia Costa ordered another five ships of her class, all sister ships to the Concordia.

The captain of the ship since her launch in 2006 was Francesco Schettino, an Italian who had been working for Since 2002, the Costa Concordia began carrying out cruises aimed at the Italian market, sailing mainly in the Mediterranean. She continued regular cruises carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers until early 2012, when one January night she changed cruising forever. The Costa Concordia began a seven-day cruise through the Mediterranean. from the tip of the Lurie barrel On January 11, 2012, after stopping in Sicily, the ship arrived in Civita Vecchia, Italy, on Friday, the 13th, 2012, at sunset, the Costa Concordia had set sail for Savona, the official course set took the ship straight down. center between the mainland of Italy and the island of Giglio, however, a deviation was made from the official route to take the ship much closer to the island to carry out what is known as salute sale.

This was a deliberate move to bring the ship relatively close to shore to give passengers a unique view of the island and also as a nod to fellow sailors on land. This is not really something new for cruise ships nor is it for the Concordia, which had already performed this maneuver several times before, including for the island of Giglio as night falls the ship diverts towards the island of Giglio on the bridge deck Officers guide the ship while Captain Schettino has dinner Officers on the bridge are instructed to stay at least 1,500 feet away from the island's shore, as this was the safe distance determined at 9:40 p.m.

The Costa Concordia is moving at 15 knots and is about to turn towards the island. The captain returns to the bridge along with his mistress. Yes, I will talk about that a little later, but there is a lack of communication between the captain and the officer. rudder over what the correct turning course should be. Due to the incorrect heading numbers, the ship's turning radius for sailing along the island was much wider than it should have been, which brought the colossal ships closer together. 659 meters closer to the coast than supposed. The captain immediately orders the Concordia to turn 20 degrees to the right seconds later, at 21:44.

The port side of the ship collides with underwater rocks creating a 60 meter gash in the hull breaking several watertight compartments. The Concordia immediately lost power to its generators and the full propulsion of its two engines sparked panic in the main dining rooms where the passengers had been eating while the ship's emergency generators were activated at 951 and an announcement was made to the passengers. ensuring that the situation had been under control and that technicians were working to solve the problem; However, moments later the bridge was informed that three compartments had broken and that the water had reached the main one. electrical panel, this was communicated to the Costa Cruise Lines Crisis Center through Captain Schettino minutes later, at 1007 p.m.

The port contacts the Concordia, however the ship states that the situation is just a blackout and that they have the situation under control during this time. The Deputy Chief Engineer meets the officers on the bridge to inform them that the flood appears to have reached compartments four. five six and seven at this point the ship begins to list as water fills the watertight compartments and the passengers go down to deck four where the light boats are located. Captain Schettino made the decision to let the ship slide into shallow water. water where, in the worst case scenario, the ship would rest at the bottom of the sea, however, its pumps failed, the flooding worsened in terms of the list of the ship, even at this time neither the captain nor the Costa cruise lines They contacted no one for help;

However, as the situation below deck worsened and the passengers finally boarded at 10:35 p.m. on the light boats themselves. the bridge asks to abandon ship and the emergency alarm sounds. There are currently four thousand two hundred and twenty-nine people on board the Costa Concordia. All the passengers and crew are descending to deck four and crowding around the light ships as one. for one they are launched at 11 p.m. The ship is now listing to starboard more than 25 degrees at this point, any hope of the ship being saved was gone and as the light boats continued to launch the list continued to worsen until now most of the bridge officers had their positions, including captain.

Schettino and at 11:30 the bridge of the Costa Concordia had been abandoned when the water reached the deck and the sinking of the ship accelerated until the list reached the point where it was impossible to launch light boats from the port side. 80 people remained on the ship ascending downward. The side of the hull up a rope ladder where the Coast Guard rescue boats were waiting, Captain Schettino, however, had already returned to shore where the Coast Guard began demanding that he return to the ship. What he never did, the Coast Guard continued rescuing people. Clinging to the side of the ship as most residents living on the island of Giglio welcomed passengers stranded into their homes due to the way the Costa Concordia came ashore, the ship rested on the rocks of the coast at an angle of approximately 80 degrees to its starboard. side completely submerged at 6:17 a.m. m., rescue operations concluded and the rising sun revealed the true magnitude of the disaster, as the ship partially capsized on its starboard side, the gaping hole on its port side showing how severe the impact was.

Daylight also revealed that three of the ships, the port side lifeboats could never be launched, which is why so many people were left on board the ship as a result of the capsize, thirty-two people died, 27 of whom were passengers and five were crew members, almost all of whom had been trapped underneath when water entered the ship. I really can't begin to imagine what horror that would have been, as the bodies were recovered primarily on the lower decks, indicating that people were trapped inside the ship when one capsized in the atrium elevators. They had been discovered trapped inside, as well as nine other bodies trapped in two other elevators shortly after the carnival of the shipwreck and its insurance company had deemed the ship a total loss as the damage had exceeded $500 million.

Oil and fuel had been extracted. Salvage teams began work on However, removing the wreck, removing a half-submerged 114 thousand ton cruiser turned out to be a rather daunting task. The plan was to place a steel structure under the Concordia and turn it upright. Huge flotation tanks were welded to the port side of the ship and on September 16, 2013, the Costa Concordia was turned upright resting on the underwater platform, turning the ship upright showed how incredibly heavy the ship was, as it It stopped on its side and completely crushed sections of the ship's steel balconies. The ship's deed also allowed for photographs to be taken inside showing the true extent of the damage.

It is so surreal to see the interior of a modern cruise ship slowly deteriorate due to abandonment and intact buoyancy tanks were installed on the other side of the ship, a starboard, and the Concordia was slowly lifted from her platform, now floating freely and in July. On the 14th, the ship was towed on her final voyage to the Italian port of Genoa, where the ship was completely scrapped. Scrapping began by cutting away sections of the ship and, by July 2017, the Costa Concordia had been completely dismantled and sold for scrap at full cost. The rescue operation amounted to $1.2 billion after the disaster The search to find the person responsible concluded with six arrests and prosecutions Several of the Concordia's first officers were sentenced to prison terms, most of less than two years crisis director of Costa Cruise Lines, with whom Captain Schettino had been in contact during the events, had received the longest sentence of the five at two years and 10 months.

As for Captain Francesco Schettino, his story was at least incomplete. He claimed that during the ordeal he had been coordinating the rescue when he had slipped. and tripped over a lifeboat due to the ship's tilt, video later emerged of what appeared to be Captain Schettino standing calmly on the deck railing waiting to board a lifeboat, although he claimed it was not him, it was also revealed later that he had been having an affair with a woman that he brought aboard the Concordia with note she by the way as I said before was taken to the bridge of the ship when all this happened however he claimed that she did not affect the disaster he also stated that she did not should be responsible for the death of the 32 people on board, since they did not die as a result of the initial impact and, instead, with the sinking the only good thing Captain Schettino did was make the decision to deliberately run the ship aground so that it would not It sank completely If the Concordia sank at about 700 feet where it eventually did, it is likely that the entire ship would have sunk and many more people may have died.

Schettino was accused of involuntary manslaughter, causing shipwreck and abandonment of passengers. He was given a sentence of 16 years. prison sentence currently being served Carnival Corporation certainly felt the financial impact of the disaster in their 2012 annual report they stated that as a direct result of the Costa Concordia incidents the company had lost $410 million in diminished revenue, although 2012 was not a year A big year for Carnival with the addition of the Carnival Triumph power outage in the same year. Carnival offered each of the Concordia survivors $13,000 that included reimbursement for their cruise. Great, I honestly think the whole situation is really amazing.

I really do not know. I like Carnival at all and I think I have good reason to say that Gannet subsidiaries have done so many shady things and the safety features that had been implemented on the Concordia sucked the fact that a modern cruise ship owned by the cruise line biggest in the world. in the world something like this could happen it is unfathomable the Costa Concordia was only five years old it cost 570 million dollars that were wasted a few years later the entire disaster ended up costing around two billion dollars Costa has now been building New ships a again and in defense of the carnival they changed their CEO and have focused much more on rebuilding their reputationof safety, which, to be fair, I can appreciate is really hard to believe, 100 years after the Titanic sank off the coast. from a small Italian island human error once again brought down what we thought was an unsunk ship, the Costa Concordia, anyway guys, thanks so much for watching, my name is Jake, follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, and thank you very much for watching them.