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  • Costa Concordia: Amazing Underwater Footage Of Sunken Ship Revealed

    Italian authorities released a video that shows the interiors of the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that struck a rock on the island of Giglio, Italy on January 2012.

    The cruise ship sustained a 50-meter tear on the side of its hull, which resulted in the flooding of the ship’s engine room. There were 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew on board, and 32 reportedly died from the incident.

    Costa Concordia was turned upright in September, but part of the ship remains submerged. Police divers swam through the wrecks of the 950-foot vessel and they were able to capture an eerie and ghostly video of the ship’s interior. The video showed scattered objects, unmanned desks, and chairs where the passengers lounged before the unfortunate incident.

    Costa Concordia: Animation Of Crash

    Chaos Aboard The Costa Concordia As It Sank

    Costa Concordia As It Is Today

    Underwater Video Footage Of The Costa Concordia

    Salvage crews plan to refloat the ship on July 14 in order to return it to its home in Genoa. Reports say that the sunken ship will be dismantled and turned into scrap. The trip from the site to Genoa will take about five days to complete, but authorities say that the trip could be postponed if there are threats of storms.

    Costa Concordia Salvage Plan

    They intend to do the process slowly to make sure that rotten food and chemicals do not spread to the clear waters. As the Costa Concordia is slowly raised, salvage crews will be cleaning out the debris that appears on the water line.

    The final voyage of the Costa Concordia is nearing, and the Tuscany court is still in the process of getting more evidence in the manslaughter trial of Francesco Schettino. Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia, allegedly steered the ship into the rocks in an attempt to sail past Giglio Island.

    Schettino said that the maps he used did not display the ridge that he hit. An expert agreed with Schettino’s statement. However, the expert also said that the maps were only supposed to be used for sailing off the coast and not near the island.

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  • Costa Concordia Captain Accused Of Covering Up Cause Of Shipwreck

    Francesco Schettino, the captain responsible for steering the Costa Concordia onto rocks in 2012, tried to cover up the incident by saying that the collision was caused by a blackout. The statement came from a witness at his trial held on Monday.

    In the 2012 Costa Concordia incident, 4,200 passengers of the ship fled from the vessel as it sank, and some 32 people drowned. Schettino is on trial for abandoning ship and manslaughter charges.

    Roberto Ferrarini, a cruise ship company official, was on the phone with Schettino on the night of the incident and claimed that the captain was trying to cover up for his actions. “Schettino proposed I tell authorities that a blackout caused the collision,” he said in his statement.

    Dialogue between Capt. Schettino and Italian Coast Guard while ship was sinking

    Ferrarini disagreed with Schettino’s suggestion and said that what he was saying is different from his first report, wherein Schettino told Ferrarini that he “hit rocks and that the ship had flooded.”

    Schettino is said to have accepted partial responsibility over crashing the ship, but said that the victims did not die in the collision. Instead, he said they drowned because of a faulty backup generator and water-tight ship compartments that flooded while the people were evacuating. He also denied abandoning ship and claims that he accidentally fell into a lifeboat when the ship tipped.

    Ferrarini, together with four others, were also accused for the collision, but they have all agreed to a plea bargain and accepted guilt. They were all sentenced to less than three months in prison. Schettino, on the other hand, preferred to go on trial.

    The Costa Concordia, which weighs about 114,000 tons, has been hoisted from where it crashed on the sea, but it remains to be a big distraction at Giglio porto. Authorities are working hard to prepare the ship for towing this summer.

    Costa Concordia Shipwreck: The Whole Story

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