On January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia sailed from the port of Civitavecchia to Savona. The last cruise included visits to several Italian cities, as well as Barcelona and Marseille. Late in the evening, near the Italian village of Giglio Porto on the island of Giglio (Tuscany region), the ship hit a rock reef and, having received a huge hole, began to sink. The operation to rescue passengers began with a delay, because there was no request for help from the Costa Concordia (captain Francesco Schettino, instead of starting the evacuation and issuing a distress signal, 15 minutes after the collision announced that the ship simply had minor problems with the generator). The coast guard itself contacted the ship in distress, after which the evacuation of passengers and crew members to shore began.
Divers inspect the wreck of the Costa Concordia. In mid-March 2012, information appeared in the media about the theft of a ship's bell, despite the security of the area.
A rescuer descends from a helicopter aboard the Costa Concordia, which has fallen on its side. Photo taken near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, January 18, 2012.
Many took pictures against the backdrop of the sunken huge liner. The young people decided not only to star in front of him, but also to initially roll around in the mud. They also chose very unusual music for the first wedding dance, asking the studio for help wedding dance"You are with me." The selection of musical compositions became one of their best gifts. In addition, in the studio they took several lessons from a professional teacher with high dance qualifications. The newlyweds really wanted the main event in their lives to be remembered not only by them, but also by everyone invited to this event.
A scuba diver inspects the ship's hull.
Firefighters standing at the lighthouse inspect a cruise ship.
Italian firefighters climb onto the cruise ship that sank on January 13, 2012, near the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea.
Firefighters work on the sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia.
Rescuers at a stranded ship. The photo was taken off the coast of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy.
Italian Andra Faccioli uses a laser scanner to conduct the necessary research on the Costa Concordia ship lying on its side. The liner, costing about $500 million, could carry more than 4,200 passengers and crew.
A rescuer climbs the Costa Condordia.
Firefighters work on the surviving side of the sunken cruise ship.
A soldier passes a photo of a missing passenger from a ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy.
Scuba divers pull a man from the water who was a passenger on the Costa Concordia.
Divers inspect the interior of the liner.
A scuba diver navigates through floating furniture inside the Costa Concordia.
Rescue operation off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio.
A wreck of a liner at the bottom of the sea.
Costa Concordia at the bottom. The search and rescue operation was suspended several times due to deteriorating weather conditions, the movement of the vessel and the increasing danger for rescuers.
A pile of chairs on the deck of a sunken cruise ship.
A diver inspects a submerged passenger ship.
A scuba diver at the anchor of a ship that has run aground.
Rescuers explore the sunken liner.
Photo of the Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the west coast of Italy.
View of the sunken ship from the shore.
The liner had 13 passenger decks, each of which was named after a locality. For example, in the hold - Holland, Sweden and Belgium, and in the area of the klotik (a rounded piece with protruding edges on the top of a mast or flagpole) - Poland.
At 22:00 Central European time, when most of the passengers were having dinner in the restaurant, the ship hit a rock reef. As a result of hitting the ground along the left side below the waterline, the ship received a hole about 70 meters long and began to sink.
Rescuers inspect huge boulders protruding from the hull of the cruise ship Costa Concordia. The photo was taken the day after the crash.
The captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, admitted during the investigation that he decided to bring the ship closer to the shore of Giglio in order to greet someone living on the island former captain ship. On the ill-fated evening, January 13, 2012, the command to turn was given to Schettino late and the ship hit a sandbank.
By the morning of January 14, 2012, the ship lay on its starboard side, touching the bottom.
The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia was 291 meters long and 38 meters wide.
At the time of the disaster, there were 3,216 passengers from 62 countries and 1,023 crew members on board.
A rescue operation was organized and most of the passengers and crew were brought ashore.
Italian investigators, after “talking” with the ship’s black box, found out that the ship came too close to the shore, and the captain began the evacuation too late and did not send a distress signal, which significantly delayed the start of the rescue operation. It was also established that Schettino was one of the first to leave the ship (almost a day before the end of the evacuation of all passengers).
The fate of foreigners was immediately taken up by their native embassies and consulates. The Filipinos were taken away, a helicopter arrived for the Japanese, and three Czechs were instantly taken away from the scene of the incident.
But 42 citizens Russian Federation of the passengers of the cruise ship Costa Concordia spent a long time in a small Italian town without money, documents or clothes - everything was left on board the ship. Not a single representative of the Russian Embassy or the travel company took care of them.
Employees of the Russian Foreign Ministry suggested that people without money, documents or belongings get to Barcelona on their own, where their cruise was supposed to end.
Rescuers at the shipwreck site.
An Italian firefighting helicopter picks up passengers from the Costa Concordia.
According to eyewitnesses, the ship's crew was confused and could not organize evacuation for a long time; panic and chaos reigned on board. The liner deviated greatly from its course, which is strictly prohibited, and the reef that the Costa Concordia hit is marked on all possible maps.
Divers inspect a half-submerged ship.
Most of the passengers were taken to the island of Giglio itself. Local residents provided assistance to the shipwrecked people, bringing them food, drink, and sharing warm clothes, placing them in a local church and school.
On the night of January 14, 2012 in the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Giglio, off the coast Italian region Tuscany. There were more than 4.2 thousand passengers and crew members on board the ship. The crash killed 32 people and injured more than 100.
A giant liner 290 meters long with 17 decks, which housed 1.5 thousand cabins, a two-level fitness area with an area of more than two thousand square meters, concert hall, 4D cinema, art gallery and a small library, as well as a casino, boutiques, restaurants and bars, left on January 13, 2012 from the port of Civitavecchia near Rome on a cruise Mediterranean Sea and headed to Savona. A few hours after departure, while passengers were having dinner in restaurants, the Costa Concordia ran into a rocky ledge, resulting in a hole on the left side, the length of which was about 70 meters.
Gradually the ship began to sink into the water. Then the airliner is a kilometer north of the scene.
Crew members led by captain Francesco Schettino tell passengers what happened. Panic began on board.
The evacuation of people from the liner continued throughout the night. It involved coast guard vessels and lifeboats, and a helicopter was also involved. The salvation of people was that many were trapped in the cabins of the liner, and several people fell overboard when the ship ran aground.
There were 111 Russian citizens on the liner. Among the ship's surviving passengers were 450 French citizens.
It was initially reported that three people died as a result of the plane crash, but this figure increased every day. The progress of the search and rescue operation due to deteriorating weather conditions, ship movements and increasing danger for rescuers. In April 2012, 30 people were officially killed, two more - an Italian woman and an Indian citizen - were listed as missing. The remains of passenger Maria Grazia Trecarica were found inside the ship. The body of another missing person, steward Russell Rebello, an Indian citizen, was found in one of the cabins of the Costa Concordia only.
Since the crash of the Costa Concordia, it has been fueled by the coast of the island of Giulio, located next to the accident site. The area around this island is home to a number of species of rare fish and marine animals. In March 2012, divers from the sunken Italian liner.
According to media reports, there were operators on the sunken Costa Concordia liner who plundered the sunken part of the ship. The first thing stolen from the Costa Concordia was the ship's bell. Rynda, who weighed several tens of kilograms, was abducted by unknown persons on March 15, 2012 from a depth of about eight meters. In addition, marauding scuba divers stole jewelry and watches, which remained in the ship’s shop windows. Paintings also disappeared from the ship, wall clock and some furniture.
In the fall of 2013, the ship that more than a year lay on its side in the shallows, installed vertically. Several months later in the depths of its hull during underwater work.
In 2014, 19 special containers were attached to the liner, from which water was then pumped out to raise the ship above sea level and level it. After the ship rose 18 meters from under the water, the cables that were used to hold it near the shore were unhooked from it. At the end of July 2014, the liner was towed to Genoa. The ship was towed. All this time, the liner was accompanied by a whole sea convoy, including, among other things, a French Navy boat and two helicopters.
After arriving at the port of Genoa, work began on dismantling the ship. In May 2015, the Costa Concordia was towed to the old port area of Genoa, and five tugboats directed what was left of the cruise ship towards the fourth dock for final dismantling.
On the Italian island of Giglio in October 2014, a monument was erected, dedicated to memory victims of the disaster on January 13, 2012 and courage local residents. The memorial "" was created by the architect Giampaolo Talani. The work was donated to the island by Neri from Livorno (Italy) and Smit from Rotterdam (Netherlands).
Immediately after the tragedy, the prosecutor's office of the Italian city of Grosseto, conducting an investigation into the circumstances of the crash of the Costa Concordia, charged the captain of the liner, Francesco Schettino, with charges of manslaughter, shipwreck and leaving the ship in danger. Representatives of the ship-owning company stated that Schettino would deviate from the intended course. The captain gave the command to come as close as possible to the island of Giglio in order to please the ship's chief steward, a native of those places.
After experts took readings from the liner’s black box, it became clear that the evacuation of passengers from the cruise ship Costa Concordia in distress had begun. The captain of the liner did not send a distress signal (the coast guard itself contacted the ship in distress), which delayed the start of the rescue operation; he was also responsible for maneuvering, managing the current emergency situation and evacuating the ship. After the crash, Schettino left the sinking liner.
On January 17, 2012, an Italian court decided to place the captain of the liner, Francesco Schettino, under house arrest, but on July 5, 2012, he was released from house arrest on the condition that he could not leave the city of Meta di Sorrento in the province of Naples, where his home is located.
For his part, Schettino decided to sue the shipowner Costa Crociere, which fired him in July 2012, demanding his reinstatement. The trial for his dismissal began in the Italian town of Torre Annunziana in the province of Naples. Schettino considered that he was fired unfairly, despite the fact that the reason for the dismissal was not only an internal disciplinary investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy, but also violations witnessed by passengers of the airliner employment contract and the Navigation Code, for example, drinking alcohol an hour before the tragedy.
In the summer of 2013, the Italian Ministry of Transport captain Francesco Schettino.
The trial of the former captain of the Costa Concordia has begun. Initially, in addition to Schettino, there were five more people in the dock: chief mate Ciro Ambrosio, ship officer Silvia Coronica, helmsman Jacob Rusli Bean, director of the onboard hotel Manrico Giampedroni and coordinator of the crisis center of the ship-owner Costa Crociere Roberto Ferrarini. However, as part of the preliminary hearings, they entered into an agreement with the investigation to admit their guilt in exchange for a reduced sentence.
A court in Italy has convicted five employees of Costa Crociere, owner of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, of manslaughter. Ferrarini was sentenced to two years and ten months, Giampedroni received two and a half years, the other defendants, except Schettino, received from a year and eight months to a year and 11 months in prison.
The company operating the ship Costa Crociere was awarded a million euros for mistakes and violations of rules made by company employees during the accident.
On February 11, 2015, the court of first instance of the Italian city of Grosseto sentenced Francesco Schettino to 16 years and one month in prison. The ex-captain was also banned for life from holding any public office, and he will not be able to work in his profession for five years. The verdict was confirmed on May 31, 2016 by the Florence Court of Appeal.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
The Costa Concordia, one of the ten largest cruise ships in the world, sank on January 13, 2012. In September 2013, off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio, a unique operation to lift a 300-meter sunken giant weighing 114 thousand tons was successfully carried out.
We have already discussed this with you. But on Wednesday the Costa Concordia liner began its last trip- the ship went to the port of Genoa, where it will be dismantled.
How it was...
2. Confirming the notoriety of Friday the 13th, the huge cruise ship Costa Concordia, carrying more than 4,200 people, crashed on January 13, 2012 near the island of Giglio off the coast of the Tuscany region of Italy. (Photo by AP Photo | Giuseppe Modesti):
3. Still frame from the video of passengers leaving the sinking ship, January 14, 2012. (Photo by Reuters | Guardia Costiera):
4. According to the captain, the cruise ship ran into rocks that were not indicated on the navigation map. 32 people were killed, two are considered missing. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):
5. Later, the liner almost completely sank into the Mediterranean Sea. A scuba diver inspects the hull of the sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia six days later, January 19, 2012. (Reuters Photo | Centro subacquei dei Carabinieri):
6. Damage and traces of raids on the reef are visible. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):
7. Underwater, inside the ship there is complete chaos, January 24, 2012. (Photo by AP Photo | Italian Navy GOS):
8. The Italian Titanic - the cruise ship Costa Concordia that sank in Italy - has been in trouble since its launch in 2005, when, according to an ancient maritime tradition, a bottle was supposed to be broken on the side of the ship. But the bottle didn't break. In 2008, the €450 million cruise ship Costa Concordia crashed into a pier off the coast of Naples, Italy. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):
9. 2013 At the site of the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, work is underway to install equipment before bringing the ship back to safety. vertical position. This operation is truly unique. Engineers had never had to work with such large vessels before. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):
10. The purpose of this operation was to remove the vessel from the rocks, lift it and place it vertically using an underwater platform and cranes. Containers on the sides (below in the photo) allowed the entire structure to remain above water, September 15, 2013. (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):
11. The largest and most expensive maritime salvage operation in history cost about 250 million euros, and the damage to the owners amounted to 1.5 billion euros. The unique operation to raise a sunken ship off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio took less than a day - 19 hours. The ship was successfully keeled on September 17, 2013. (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):
12. The next stage of the operation began in July 2014. On Wednesday, the Costa Concordia began its final voyage - the ship departed for the port of Genoa, where it will be dismantled, July 22, 2014. (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):
Interesting fact: the Titanic sank on the night of April 13-14, 1912, and the Costa Concordia sank on the night of January 13-14, 2012, i.e. There is almost exactly a 100 year difference between these crashes.
It is interesting to compare the Titanic and Costa Concordia according to the stated characteristics:
1. Displacement: 52,310 tons | 51,387 tons
2. Length: 269.1 m | 290.2 m
3. Width: 28.2m | 35.5 m
4. Speed: 24 knots | 19.6 knots
5. Capacity: 2,556 passengers + 908 crew | 3,700 passengers + 1,100 crew.
13. Damaged part of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, July 13, 2014. (Reuters Photo | Alessandro Bianchi):
14. Let's take a look inside. Photo taken February 27, 2014. (Photo by Reuters | Carabinieri Police):
15. The Costa Concordia had 1,500 cabins, the world's largest wellness center at sea, four swimming pools, five spas, five restaurants, 13 bars, a cinema, a disco and an internet cafe. (Photo by Reuters/Carabinieri Police):
16. Among maritime disasters that occurred in peacetime, in terms of the number of victims, the Titanic ranks third - 1,513 people. The leadership remains with the Dona Paz ferry, which collided with an oil tanker in 1987. More than 4,000 people died in the clash and subsequent fire.
17. Inside the liner, time stopped. Someone's suitcases. (Reuters Photo | Carabinieri Police):
18. According to passengers, when the ship had already received a hole, the crew, dressed in life jackets, persuaded the passengers to return to their cabins, assuring them that nothing terrible was happening. (Reuters Photo | Carabinieri Police):
19. In five days, the Costa Concordia will have to travel approximately 370 kilometers in tow, the ship will move at a speed of 2 knots, July 14, 2014. (Reuters Photo | Alessandro Bianchi):
20. They're coming preparatory work before the Costa Concordia's final voyage, July 14, 2014. (Photo by Vincenzo Pinto | AFP | Getty Images):
25. (Photo by AP Photo | Gregorio Borgia):
27. This is the last voyage of the Costa Concordia. A complex dismantling operation will take place in Genoa, it will be divided into four phases and will last 22 months. (Photo by AP Photo | Courtesy of the Italian Civil Protection Department):
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In the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Giglio in 2012, on January 13, a terrible tragedy occurred - the disaster of the large cruise ship Costa Concordia. There were 4,200 people on it at that time.
Ship "Costa Concordia"
The liner was built in mid-summer 2006. This is one of the largest modern ships of Costa Cruises, which ranks first in Europe in passenger (cruise) transportation. 114,500 tons - its displacement, passenger capacity - up to 3,780 people. The number of cabins on board is 1500.
Vessel dimensions: 290.2 m long, 35.5 m wide. A powerful electric generator can provide energy the whole city with a population of 50 thousand. On board the ship there are four swimming pools, 5 restaurants, 5 spas, 13 bars, a disco, a cinema and an Internet cafe.
Crash
On January 13, the ship left the port of Civitavecchia for Savona. It was a regular cruise route - "7 nights of the winter Mediterranean". This last cruise planned to call at several ports of Italian cities, as well as Barcelona and Marseille.
At 10 o'clock in the evening near the island of Giglio, when most of the passengers were having dinner in a restaurant, the ship ran into a huge rock reef. It received a large hole (length - 53 m, width up to 7.3 m) and began to sink. Compartments three to eight were flooded (5 in total). The eighth house was the engine room. As a result, control over the engines and electronic equipment was lost.
The ship ran aground just 150 meters from the village of Giglio Porto. This is how the Costa Concordia sank.
The ship was designed to be unsinkable if only two compartments were damaged. By the morning of January 14, the ship sank and, having touched the bottom, lay on the starboard side.
In total, at the time of the disaster there were 3,216 passengers (from 62 countries) and 1,023 crew members on the ship. Among them were Russians (108 people) and Ukrainians (45 citizens). None of them were hurt. Only two of the three Russians (crew members) ended up in the hospital after the disaster. There were three more citizens each from Kazakhstan and Belarus on board.
Rescue operations, help from local residents
According to the testimony of numerous witnesses (there is confirmation on video recordings), the crew of the Costa Concordia ship failed the rescue operation. The captain of the liner, Schettino, instead of issuing the necessary distress signal and starting evacuation, announced to passengers only 15 minutes after the accident that the ship had only minor problems with the generator (at that time there were indeed problems with energy).
Only when, closer to 11 o'clock, the ship's list increased significantly (30 degrees), the beeps were heard, indicating that passengers should leave the ship. Of course, panic and stampede began.
The captain himself (according to the investigation) was one of the first to leave the ship, without even sending any signal about this terrible disaster. Thanks to the actions of the coast guard, which contacted the ship, a rescue operation began in the dead of night.
Passengers who did not have time to get into the boats were lifted from the side railings (they clung to them) by helicopters. Four boats did not have time to be launched. There was a very strong roll. Some passengers were able to swim to shore themselves.
Subsequently, during the search for missing people, military sailors began to blow holes in the walls of the ship with explosions in order to break through to the remaining air bags that could contain survivors.
Search and rescue operations had to be stopped several times due to unfavorable weather conditions and ship movements.
At the beginning of February 2012, it was announced that search operations would be stopped, but only in the flooded parts of the ship, due to the high risk for scuba divers. And searches on the seabed (within 18 sq. km), as well as in the remaining unflooded areas of the ship continued.
Residents of the island, in turn, helped the victims by placing them in a school, local church and other buildings. They provided them with medical care, brought them food and warm clothes.
Victims, dead and wounded
According to daily reports on January 14, three people were killed.
On January 15, the bodies of two more dead passengers (an Italian and a Spaniard) were discovered.
By January 16, there were already 6 dead. And 16 people were listed as missing at that time. The next day, the list of missing people grew to 29 people (including 4 crew members). The confusion in the report numbers was explained by the fact that most of the rescued were foreigners who did not speak Italian.
By the end of March 2012, a total of 30 bodies had been discovered. Two more people were still listed as missing. The remains of the most recent missing person were discovered during search operations only in November 2013.
Tourist invasion
Costa Concordia has increased the flow of tourists to the sites of the tragedy.
More than six months after the disaster, the tiny island was filling up a huge amount tourists. In neighboring San Stefano, 15 kilometers from the site of the tragedy, tour operators were doing business - selling tickets for 10 euros. Tourists had the opportunity to look at the half-sunken liner from a special ferry, which passed just a few meters from the Concordia.
The mayor of the village of Giglio, Sergio Ortelli, noted that in fact there was a significant increase in the number of tourists. They came to see the giant ship that had fallen on its side and take photographs of it as a souvenir.
Investigative work on the incident, results
The investigation established that the ship approached much closer (10 times) to the shore than provided for by the route, and at a higher speed.
The entire campaign to eliminate the consequences of the shipwreck lasted more than two years. The damage, estimated by the authorities of the island of Giglio, amounted to 125-189 million euros.
The main accused is the captain of the crashed airliner, Francesco Schettino. He was found guilty of unintentional murder of people (32 people) and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Shipping experts are perplexed and amazed at how such a modern and well-equipped vessel as the Costa Concordia could run aground in such well-studied sea areas.
The experts had two questions. Namely, how it happened that the Costa Concordia deviated from the planned route (by 3-4 nautical miles) and for what reason it capsized so quickly.
This ship cruised this route 52 times a year.
The main assumptions about the reasons for what happened are the human factor and a technical failure or a combination of these two factors.
It is also possible that the ship's crew simply lost their course. Therefore, the Costa Concordia liner found itself dangerously close to the coast.
There were also versions that there were malfunctions in the ship’s navigation equipment.
There could also be power outages on board.
But the most important thing is that the world learned about the crash of the huge Costa Concordia liner in the Mediterranean Sea only a day after the incident. The greatest indignation and bewilderment was caused by the behavior of the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, and the crew subordinate to him.
According to the testimonies of passengers, some members of the crew at first did not even let people into the lifeboats, but eventually climbed into them themselves. And the captain escaped from the sinking ship, abandoning all the passengers.
Costa Concordia now
The operation to raise the ship was carried out in several stages. These works are the most expensive in the history of such operations, costing about 250 million euros. For the ship's owners, the damage amounted to approximately 1.5 billion euros. In August 2013, a unique operation began. It took less than a day. The ship was safely keeled.
The goal of the entire operation was, first of all, to achieve a minimum roll (zero). This was successfully achieved. During its 600 days on the reefs, the liner's hull was severely damaged. However, the rise of the Costa Concordia was completed successfully.
At the end of July 2014, work began on towing the vessel to the port of Genoa. Three days later the ship was brought to the intended port. Work to dismantle the hull will take almost 2 years.
Not long ago, one of the most expensive and unprecedented projects in history was completed, which cost 600 million euros and involved more than 500 people from 24 countries around the world - the recovery of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which partially sank off the coast of Tuscany (the island of Giglio).
Such an operation is almost unprecedented. The cases where such an amount of force was used can be counted on one hand. However, neither the risks associated with lifting the liner nor its high cost shook the engineers’ confidence that the lift was necessary.
History of the Costa Concordia wreck
On January 13, 2012, the liner followed the course of the route 7 Night Winter Mediterranean, which involves leaving the port of Civitavecchia to Savona, the last cruise involved the liner calling at the ports of Barcelona, Marseille and several other Italian ports.
January 13, 2012, 22:00 CET the ship was near the island of Giglio (Tuscany, Italy), most of the passengers were having dinner at the restaurant at that time. It was then that the Costa Concordia hit a reef, resulting in a hole of about 30 meters. The rescue operation began.
From this moment, disagreements begin between the participants in the events - passengers and personnel of the liner. It is worth noting that all data can be interpreted from the position of individual people, and there are many of these positions (if not to say that almost everyone has their own), but the essence is still the same. As the victims of the crash say, after the collision, the ship tilted, causing panic among most of the passengers; the reaction of the ship’s captain was not long in coming and the loudspeaker announced problems with the liner’s generator.
Despite the fact that further events will not develop in better side, the captain of the ship continues to adhere to this point of view. Despite this, the evacuation continues and passengers gather en masse near the boats. As many passengers note, the liner staff failed to organize a smooth loading onto the boats. According to the investigation, which was carried out later, it turned out that the captain of the ship, Schettino, was among the first to leave the ship.
After loading onto the boats and launching into the water, personnel and passengers were transported to the shore, where the victims were provided with first aid. It is worth noting the help of local residents who provided the passengers with warm clothes, food and allocated places to stay for the night. Passengers occupied schools, churches and hotels.
Victims of the Costa Concordia cruise ship sinking
On the morning of January 14, 2012, Costa Concordia lay on its starboard side, touching the bottom. Search operations for missing persons are being organized.
As of January 17, the number of victims was 11 people, and 25 people were listed as missing. By early February, search operations in the submerged part of the ship were stopped due to the risk to scuba divers conducting search and rescue operations. And by the end of March, information was received about 30 dead and two missing.
Causes of the passenger airliner accident and punishment of those responsible
As the investigation found out, the cause of the accident was a collision of the liner with a reef; among other things, a technical failure of the liner’s equipment cannot be ruled out. Experts were outraged by the fact that despite the fact that the liner travels this route 52 times a year, it deviated from course by 3-4 miles. This can be explained by the initial statements of the captain of the liner, Francesco Schettino, who said that having shifted to the side coastline he wanted to greet his friend (former captain of Costa Concordia) who lives on the island. However, later, Schettino retracted his testimony and shifted the blame to the company manager, who, according to him, insisted that the ship come closer to the shore.
Decoding the black box showed that the ship was too close to the shore, the start of the evacuation occurred too late, in addition, the captain never sent a distress signal, which delayed the start of the rescue operation. Until July 17, 2013, Schettino was under house arrest by court order. On at the moment The trial is underway, the prosecutor's proposed sentence is 2,697 years in prison.
Liquidation of consequences and rise of Costa Concordia
Just three days after the ship sank, an oily liquid began to leak from the vessel; experts reassured the public with assurances that it was not fuel. Fuel pumping began as there was a possibility that the ship would slide off the cliff. If this happened, more than 2,000 tons could end up at sea. Naturally, such a prospect did not make anyone smile. However, already on March 24 it was announced that the fuel had been pumped out, and literally a month later a tender was held to lift and evacuate the vessel, which was won by Titan Salvage.
The plan for raising the vessel is quite simple, but it required significant investments, and the operation itself was associated with high risk failure of the event, which was discussed more than once by both the company’s engineers and leading experts. In mid-2013, work continues to prepare for the lifting of the vessel.
On September 16 at 9 am, the operation to raise the Costa Concordia began. The length of the liner is 290 meters, the angle of roll was 70 degrees, and the water level was 20 meters. The planned operation time is ideally 12 hours. Below is a graphic plan for lifting the liner.
On September 17, after 19 hours, the operation was finally completed successfully; it was possible to bring the ship into a horizontal position. Following the results of the operation, Franco Porselaki, vice president of ARNIVAL CORPORATION, reported that everything went perfectly, and most importantly, no harm to the environment was noticed. However, despite the fact that the ascent was completed successfully, experts do not consider it necessary to relax and remind that this is not the end. In the spring, the liner will have to be transported to the shipyard, where the Costa Concordia will be dismantled.