The overall tonnage of the Concordia is , GT and is capable of speeds around Concordia had the capacity to host 3, passengers and 1, crew in 1, cabins, situated across 17 decks. She also has private balconies, with 58 suites having private balconies.
The ship has four swimming pools in total, five whirlpool baths, five spas and a poolside screen on the pool deck. She has five onboard restaurants for passengers to choose from, with Club Concordia and Samsara available for reservation-only dining. Also on board are 13 bars, a three-level theatre, a casino, a Grand Prix motor racing simulator and a discotheque. Concordia made her maiden voyage on 14 July , and remained in service until 13 January , when she ran aground off the coast of Italy.
The Costa Concordia sustained damage to its bow when high winds hit Southern Italy on 23 November Hundreds of Titanic passengers never had a chance at survival , given the lack of lifeboat space available.
Not only that, but a U. Additionally, the loss of life would have been much worse had the weather have been rough, the panel found. With the lifeboats suspended 70 feet 21 m above the ocean, rough waters would have made lowering them without smashing them against the ship impossible. On the other hand, all reports indicate very little panic during the Titanic evacuation, at least not until the very end.
This is likely because most passengers didn't realize the seriousness of the situation, Weeks said. There are reports of passengers refusing to get on the lifeboats, choosing instead to stay in the warmth and light of the doomed ship. The same cannot be said of the Costa Concordia evacuation, which survivors describe as chaotic. Crew members reportedly panicked and jumped aboard lifeboats before passengers.
The Costa Concordia listed to one side, in contrast with the Titanic, which tilted forward, her bow in the water. That may have made the Concordia sinking seem more dramatic than the sinking of the Titanic, at least from the perspective of those onboard. The evacuation of the Costa Concordia was delayed, with passengers initially informed that the ship was having a minor electrical problem. There had been no evacuation drill onboard — it was scheduled for Saturday — so passengers were confused.
Many of the crew did not speak Italian and could not communicate with their charges. Some cruise-goers reported being on lifeboats captained by waiters and other support staff. The easy deployment of the life-boats though, prevented a huge-scale loss of life of passengers and crew. Instead of staying with his crew and the passengers, helping them to safety, the captain decided to jump ship and was amongst those who escaped in the first of the life-boats deployed.
Francesco Schettino and other crew personnel are presently facing investigative charges. Though various causal factors have emerged to be the cause of the sinking, a thorough investigative report prepared by investigative experts is being compiled. Based on the findings in the reports, the ex-captain and the crew are expected to be charged in the court of law. However amidst these happenings, the process of salvage to re-haul the Costa Concordia is soon set to start. This was an alternative to the conventional towing.
The ship is able to lift and carry heavyweight cargoes of up to , tons. It was initially designed to load and move offshore platforms marine facilities serving the oil and gas industry. This lift ship is also capable of carrying other ships often several hulls stacked one over other and also is used as an offshore dry-docking facility read more in the wiki-section of Carnival Vista.
Vanguard ship's specifications include:. The towing operation started on July 22, Concordia's last voyage ended in Genoa, on July The dead cruise liner was accompanied by a fleet of 14 marine vessels, including two tugboats towing from the front. Group's leader was the Blizzard tug. The vessel's last ever "crew" on board included salvage experts and some environmentalists from Greenpeace. The final voyage was from the accident site Giglio Island to the scrapping shipyard in Genoa.
The ship had to be stripped of enough material to allow the passage over Port Genoa's PSA Voltri Pra breakwater - the vessel's final destination. Probably the saddest cruise ship you will ever meet at sea was Concordia's wreckage in motion - for the last time, sailing to her grave. On July 27, , the wrecked vessel entered Port Genoa.
The 3-year operation was one of the world's biggest maritime salvage operations ever. Next step was the ship's dismantling, scrapping and recycling in accordance with Italy's Ministry of Environment prescriptions.
The transfer of the vessel ownership from Costa to Saipem was signed on July 27, at pm. Was this so unbelievably stupid disaster really an accident? How about the plausible hypothesis of a stock market game, or an industry's global media publicity game?
With this USD 2 billion "scrapping budget" you could do so much more to benefit the humankind, so much more for Nature itself. Or what if the name of the game was buying out cheap Carnival stocks from the general shareholders? Still, it could be simply the accident that became a profitable business for the big players. Excepting, of course, the ship insurance companies.
Costa Concordia was a triple disaster. So many lives were lost. The cruise industry suffered bad publicity. And a bunch of money was wasted on an epic salvage - money that could've been spent on building a brand new vessel.
This is also the worst cruise ship accident of all times simply because all that happened started with stupidity. The ship's sinking was The dismantling and recycling of Costa Concordia cruise ship has been finally completed in Italy and marked the official end to history's The Italian captain of Costa Concordia ship which crashed into a reef, killing 32 people in , was headed to prison in Rome after losing the final The large-sized passenger ship Costa Concordia which capsized killing 32 people onboard is being torn apart 5 years after the tragedy.
The luxury The Costa Concordia cruise ship was one of a kind. The luxurious vessel wowed just about everyone who stepped foot on it. This monstrosity An Italian appeals court upheld the year jail term handed to Francesco Schettino, captain of the sunken Costa Concordia.
In , the ship sank The vessel yard number was ordered by Carnival Corporation on January 19,
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