The Costa Concordia, a huge, luxury liner, had run aground off Giglio Island in Italy. It was toppling over into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, in a disaster that could have taken the lives of 32 individuals.
Costa Concordia cruise ship has been in news for quite some time now. Find out more about the features and specifications of the vessel and what actually led to the unfortunate cruise ship accident. Know it all inside the article.
The issue of stability, and especially damage stability of passenger ships, has been frequently re-visited. This has been so, not due to the number of associated accidents, but due to the consequences that these accidents can have.
A footage has emerged allegedly showing the Costa Concordia captain leaving the sinking cruise ship while hundreds of passengers were still stuck on board.
As a convoy of 14 vessels, led by the tug boat Blizzard, starts to tow the Concordia to a port near Genoa in northern Italy where it is due to arrive on Sunday, before being broken up for scrap, a drone captures the vessel’s final journey.
The first day of the refloating operation of the Concordia has concluded successfully. Watch the time lapse video of the process.
Now the disaster ship Costa Concordia floats again, the work of the Dutch Conquest MB1 crane ship and her crew is there almost done. The Dutch company Conquest Offshore has in the recent months, in cooperation with a large group of international companies, installed the sponsoons that will refloat the Costa Concordia.
The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner is set to be refloated within 10 days, to be towed away from the Italian island where it ran aground and capsized two and a half years ago. Watch the time lapse video of the wreck removal process.
A Time-lapse footage showing the Costa Concordia being uprighted off the coast of Tuscany.