How Many People Were On Concordia Sailing Vessel?

The Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in 2012, which claimed the lives of 32 people and injured 64 others, occurred off the Tuscan island of Giglio in Italy. The ship struck rocks after Captain Francesco Schettino allegedly changed course to avoid a maritime accident. The evacuation of the ship took over six hours, and 32 people died. The toll included two missing but presumed dead individuals: Russel Rebello of India and Maria Grazia Trecarichi of Sicily.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the disaster, which killed 32 people and left many others injured. The evacuation took over six hours, and most passengers were rescued. Several crew members, including Captain Francesco Schettino, were found guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident, and abandoning his ship. Over 4,200 people were rescued, but 32 people died in the disaster.

The tragedy has left investigators questioning why the luxury cruise ship sailing so close to the disaster. With 16 confirmed deaths and more than 20 people still missing, the human tragedy may be followed by an environmental one, as over 2000 tonnes of debris were thrown into the sea.

In 2010, the sail training yacht Concordia was knocked down and capsized after encountering a squall off the coast of Brazil. This year, the event will honor the 32 people who died that night, as well as the 4,200 survivors and the residents of Giglio who took in passengers and crew.

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Was Costa Concordia’s captain drunk?

Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest accused of manslaughter and abandoning ship after he grounded the Costa Concordia on the island of Giglio following the collision, has told investigators that he had not drunk alcohol that night. But a passenger, Angelo Fabbri, has revealed that he and his wife watched Schettino –who is married with a child – enjoy a gourmet meal with red wine at the ship’s most exclusive restaurant.

“Schettino, in a dark uniform, was sat in front of a young woman,” Fabbri told newspaper Il Secolo XIX. “She appeared young, initially we thought she could even be his daughter. A beautiful woman, slim, shoulder-length blonde hair, a black dress with bare arms. They were laughing, they were informal, it was very merry,” he said. “The wine?” he added. “There is no doubt they drank, at least a whole decanter, the last drops were poured into the commander’s glass.”

Fabbri described Schettino as a “show-off”, and said he, the woman and another officer left the restaurant around 9.05pm. At about 9.45pm, he was back on the bridge, where he steered the ship into rocks while attempting to “salute” a former captain on Giglio. Italian media reported on Thursday that investigators are trying to interview Domnica Cermontan, 25, a Moldovan employee of Costa Crociere, the cruise ship’s owner.

Was the captain of the Costa Concordia drunk?

The captain who steered his 114,000-tonne vessel into rocks off the Italian coast last Friday was drinking wine at dinner with a “beautiful” woman minutes earlier, a witness has claimed.

Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest accused of manslaughter and abandoning ship after he grounded the Costa Concordia on the island of Giglio following the collision, has told investigators that he had not drunk alcohol that night. But a passenger, Angelo Fabbri, has revealed that he and his wife watched Schettino –who is married with a child – enjoy a gourmet meal with red wine at the ship’s most exclusive restaurant.

“Schettino, in a dark uniform, was sat in front of a young woman,” Fabbri told newspaper Il Secolo XIX. “She appeared young, initially we thought she could even be his daughter. A beautiful woman, slim, shoulder-length blonde hair, a black dress with bare arms. They were laughing, they were informal, it was very merry,” he said. “The wine?” he added. “There is no doubt they drank, at least a whole decanter, the last drops were poured into the commander’s glass.”

How many people were on board the Concordia?

On January 13, 2012, the Concordia left Civitavecchia, Italy, at approximately 7:18 pm. On board were 1,023 crew members and 3,206 passengers. As the Concordia approached Giglio Island several hours later, it deviated from its standard course, moving closer to the small Tuscan island for a maritime “salute,” a common practice that included the cruise ship sounding its horn; the Concordia had performed several in the past. The area was known for rock outcroppings, and at some point, such a formation was noticed in the ship’s path. Schettino, a captain of more than seven years, ordered a change in course, but due to language issues, the Indonesian helmsman steered the boat in the opposite direction. It reportedly took 13 seconds to correct the maneuver. The boat’s bow ultimately swung clear, but the stern collided with the reef at approximately 9:45 pm. Confusion on the bridge resulted in conflicting orders, but the damage had been done: the Concordia’s port (left) side had suffered a 174-foot (53-metre) tear.

An assessment of the damage revealed that five compartments, including the engine room, were flooding, and the ship soon lost power. In addition, with neither the engines nor rudder functioning, the ship could not be steered. However, the wind and the stuck position of the rudder caused the Concordia to turn back toward the island. While the change in direction made the later rescue easier, it caused the ship to start listing to the starboard side. The drifting Concordia eventually ran aground near the shore. During this time, a panicked passenger contacted her daughter in Italy, and the Italian coast guard called the Concordia at about 10:14 pm. Schettino, however, downplayed the damage, only noting that the vessel had experienced a blackout. Some 10 minutes later the coast guard contacted the ship again, and at this time the crew admitted that the vessel was taking on water. However, Schettino’s only request was for tugboats.

At 10:39 pm the first rescue vessel arrived. Approximately 15 minutes later, Schettino finally ordered the Concordia abandoned, though according to reports, lifeboats had already been launched. At around 11:20 pm Schettino left the bridge and soon after abandoned ship; he subsequently claimed that he fell off the Concordia and landed in a lifeboat. Some 13 minutes later the last crew member departed the bridge, even though approximately 300 people were still on the ailing vessel. By 12:00 am on January 14, the Concordia had a severe list, making the release of lifeboats difficult and forcing many to use ladders.

Why did the Costa Concordia hit a rock?

In its investigative report on the 2012 disaster, Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports found that the Concordia “was sailing too close to the coastline, in a poorly lit shore area…at an unsafe distance at night time and at high speed (15.5 kts).”

Many famous naval disasters happen far out at sea, but on January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia wrecked just off the coast of an Italian island in relatively shallow water. The avoidable disaster killed 32 people and seriously injured many others, and left investigators wondering: Why was the luxury cruise ship sailing so close to the shore in the first place?

During the ensuing trial, prosecutors came up with a tabloid-ready explanation: The married ship captain had sailed it so close to the island to impress a much younger Moldovan dancer with whom he was having an affair.

Whether or not Captain Francesco Schettino was trying to impress his girlfriend is debatable. (Schettino insisted the ship sailed close to shore to salute other mariners and give passengers a good view.) But whatever the reason for getting too close, the Italian courts found the captain, four crew members and one official from the ship’s company, Costa Crociere (part of Carnival Corporation), to be at fault for causing the disaster and preventing a safe evacuation. The wreck was not the fault of unexpected weather or ship malfunction—it was a disaster caused entirely by a series of human errors.

Why did the captain of Costa Concordia leave the ship?

Schettino indicated prior to trial that the underwater rocks that the ship hit were uncharted, the helmsman did not speak English or Italian, and that the ship’s generators malfunctioned, impeding the rescue effort. Regarding his early departure from the vessel, Schettino said he left the ship when it turned over, and that he fell into a lifeboat. A transcript of a recorded conversation between Schettino and Gregorio de Falco, the on-duty Italian Coast Guard commander, was broadcast around the world. It details a furious De Falco repeatedly ordering Schettino to leave the lifeboat and return to the stricken Costa Concordia. De Falco did not believe Schettino’s explanation of how he “fell” into the lifeboat, or his excuse for not returning to his vessel because it was “too dark” and the lifeboat had “stopped moving”. De Falco also proclaimed to Schettino, “You’ve abandoned ship! I’m in charge now,” At one point, De Falco was so angered at Schettino’s excuses that he told Schettino, “Vada a bordo, cazzo!” (literally “Fucking get on board!” but also translated as “Get the fuck on board!”, “Get on board, for fuck’s sake!”, or “Get on board, dammit!”), but Schettino did not do so and was one of the first to reach land.

Schettino also claimed he would have returned to the ship by helicopter, if it were possible. Carlo Galli, a Giglio police officer, found Schettino, and offered to get him a dinghy to get him back to the ship, but Schettino declined. Galli also said that Schettino was dry, despite supposedly falling from the ship.

Schettino was vilified and disgraced in extensive media coverage that dubbed him “Captain Coward” and “Captain Calamity”. Others in the press noted that Schettino was a daredevil and prone to insubordination. He was even described as “Italy’s most hated man” by the tabloid press. At the end of his trial at Grosseto, Schettino said that he spent three years “in a media meat grinder.”

Were the passengers on the Costa Concordia compensated?

The total cost of the disaster, including victims’ compensation, refloating, towing and scrapping costs, is estimated at $2 billion, more than three times the ship’s $612 million construction cost. Costa Cruises offered compensation to passengers (to a limit of €11,000 per person) to pay for all damages, including the value of the cruise; one third of the survivors took the offer.

Costa Concordia (call sign: IBHD, IMO number: 9320544, MMSI number: 247158500), with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, was sailing off Isola del Giglio on the night of 13 January 2012, having begun a planned seven-day cruise from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, to Savona and five other ports. The port side of the ship struck a reef at 21:42 or 21:45 local time. The reef is charted as an area known as Le Scole (‘the rocks’ in the local dialect), about 800 metres (870yd) south of the entrance to the harbour of Giglio Porto, on the island’s east coast.

The point of initial impact was 8 metres (26ft) below water at Scola Piccoia (‘little rock’), the most seaward exposed rock of Le Scole, which tore a 35-metre (115ft) gash in Costa Concordia’s port side below the waterline. The impact sheared two long strips of steel from the ship’s hull; these were later found on the seabed 92 to 96 metres (302 to 315ft) from the main island. A few minutes after the impact, the head of the engine room warned the ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, that the hull had an irreparable tear of 35 metres (115ft) through which water entered and submerged the generators and engines.

Did people swim to shore on Costa Concordia?

CALGARY—When Laurence and Andrea Davis set down to have dinner at Costa Concordia’s three-tiered restaurant, it never crossed their minds that moments later they would jump in the cold water of the Mediterranean Sea and swim for their lives.

Did they ever find the last victim of the Costa Concordia?

ROME — The last missing person from the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia was finally accounted for on Monday when workers dismantling the hulk found the remains of Russel Rebello, a waiter on the ship.

The hulk of the vessel is being scrapped in Genoa, Italy, where it was towed after being freed from the rocks it struck in January 2012 off the island of Giglio, in Tuscany. Workers found Mr. Rebello’s body in a passenger cabin on the eighth deck, “in an advanced state of decomposition,” an Italian military police official said. Identification documents belonging to Mr. Rebello were found on the body in the jacket of his waiter’s uniform, the official said.

The remains were turned over to the Italian authorities for a full autopsy. It was not immediately clear why the body was not found in previous searches of the ship.

Did people sue the Costa Concordia?

A handful of surviving passengers of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship filed a lawsuit against the cruise line on Friday, the same day the company offered each of the hundreds who’d been aboard the vessel a lump sum of 11,000 euros ($14,400).

NEW: A Peruvian crew member has filed a lawsuit against the cruise line.

NEW: A lawyer behind a different lawsuit calls a compensation offer “an insult”

Each Costa Concordia survivor is being offered $14,400 in compensation.

Did the passengers of the Costa Concordia sue?

A handful of surviving passengers of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship filed a lawsuit against the cruise line on Friday, the same day the company offered each of the hundreds who’d been aboard the vessel a lump sum of 11,000 euros ($14,400).

NEW: A Peruvian crew member has filed a lawsuit against the cruise line.

NEW: A lawyer behind a different lawsuit calls a compensation offer “an insult”

Each Costa Concordia survivor is being offered $14,400 in compensation.

Is the captain of the Costa Concordia still in jail?

It hasn’t been easy, even among professionals, to have too much sympathy for Francesco Schettino, formerly master of the Costa Concordia, currently serving a 16 year prison sentence in Rome.

The universal shock and dismay when this ship came to grief in 2012 with the loss of 33 lives still resounds, as it demonstrated the vulnerability of even the biggest and most modern cruise ships.

But in an urge to blackguard the master, following the navigational errors that saw the ship impale itself on an offshore rock and come within an ace of capsizing completely, has his account of the sequence of events ever been clinically and professionally examined? There remain serious doubts about the fairness of the Italian judicial processes that convicted the master of manslaughter, permitted others involved to escape with plea bargaining, in trials that largely ignored the technical issues which surrounded the tragedy, without any meaningful recourse to professional advice.

A letter from Francesco Schettino, written in the (ultimately vain) hope that it might contribute to a safety conference held earlier this month in London, shows, amid his remorse and despair, a desire to share his experiences of that nightmare event. “Few captains lived a similar experience,” he notes. “Before the accident”, he writes, “I have always stressed the importance of the Bridge Team efficiency and effectiveness. In my life I have never left things unplanned. Notwithstanding my attitude, that night I have experienced that a whole team of conning officers, three of them including a deck cadet while on duty at their radars and ECDIS stations, did not detect that the ship was running aground”.