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The ship's owners, Costa Cruises, said the captain had made an "unapproved, unauthorised" deviation in course, sailing too close to the island in order to show the ship to locals. Automatic tracking systems show the route of the Costa Concordia until it ran aground on 13 January. Data from 14 August show the ship followed a similar course close to the shoreline, according to Lloyd's List Intelligence. On 6 January , it passed through the same strait but sailed much further from the island.
Divers searched the ship as it rested on the seabed in about 20m of water. The operation had to be suspended a number of times as the ship shifted position.
The sea floor eventually drops to about m. The Dutch salvage firm Smit brought a barge alongside the ship and divers installed external tanks to collect the diesel.
More than 2, tonnes of fuel was eventually extracted, but the engineers were unable to remove all of it from some of the most inaccessible tanks. The decision to salvage the ship, rather than break it up, was taken in May , four months after the disaster. The contract - awarded jointly to salvage companies Titan and Micoperi - was described as an unprecedented operation.
The ship was eventually refloated in July and taken to Genoa, where the scrapping operation is expected to take two years.
A profile of year-old Italian cruise liner captain Francesco Schettino, jailed for manslaughter for his role in the Costa Concordia maritime disaster in January The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday was in sole control of plane and intentionally started its descent, officials say.
Tuesday's devastating attacks in Brussels show IS's European network is still at large, despite a year of intensive efforts by security forces to close it down. Scientists are debating whether it's possible to harness the power of gravity for interstellar space travel. The four-year-old boy who has become the centre of a controversy between India and Pakistan - and between his father and mother. He says he should be thanked as his actions in steering the ship back towards the port at Giglio saved hundreds of lives.
However, he was ridiculed by the world's media after it emerged he had told coastguards he "tripped and fell" into a lifeboat as the Concordia began to list to one side, while recordings later emerged of him refusing orders to get back onboard and co-ordinate the rescue efforts. Some other crew members also face charges, as do management figures from the company Costa Cruises, which owns the ship that is still lying on its side and not expected to be removed until September at the earliest.
The initial part of the trial is expected to last a week and once again will take place in a theatre in the town of Grosseto. Prosecutors have also requested the indictment of five other crew members, including two officers Ciro Ambrosio and Silvio Coronica and the Concordia's helmsman Jacob Rusli. In an unusual move, Mr Verusio has posted details of the case on a Facebook site in various languages and invited those who may have a claim to contact him.
It has also emerged that Costa Cruises asked for a plea-bargaining agreement, which would see them pay a fine of one million euros. They insist Schettino is solely to blame. Watch Live. A judge is expected to rule on Saturday on those defendants' requests for lenient sentences, no longer than about two years.
In Italy , sentences are often suspended in the cases of first-time offenders that result in punishments of a a few years or less. That would leave Schettino, who depicts himself as an innocent scapegoat, as the only defendant risking a long sentence. Some of the 4, passengers and crew who were aboard the Concordia said Schettino should not be the only person tried. They were smiling at the beginning, but when they realised that there was danger they escaped, abandoning us.
Costa Concordia. This article is more than 8 years old. Court official reads out names of deceased and how each one drowned, quoting from indictment of Francesco Schettino.
Category: business and finance recalls. Aground with rigid lifeboats in foreground and inflatables hanging from the side of the ship Date 13 January Deaths 33 27 passengers, 5 crew, 1 salvage member Non-fatal injuries 64 Captain Francesco Schettino.
Did they find all the bodies on the Costa Concordia? Human remains found in the wreck of the Costa Concordia are believed to be the last victim of the cruise ship's capsize, Italian officials have said. Workers for the salvage firm recovered the body from a cabin and handed it to the authorities to be identified.
Has the Costa Concordia been removed? Costa Crociere and the Costa Concordia Emergency Commissioner's Office announced that the tender for the removal of the ship from Giglio Island has been awarded to Micoperi in partnership with the U. How much does a cruise ship captain make? A cruise ship captain's salary can be six figures annually. Why did the Costa Concordia sink?
The eight-year-old Costa Cruises vessel was on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when she deviated from her planned route at the Isola del Giglio, sailed closer to the island, and struck a rock formation on the sea floor.
Why did Costa Concordia go off course? Costa Concordia crash. How much did it cost to raise the Concordia?
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