Costa Concordia

Discovery Channel will air their one hour special tonight about the Concordia Disaster. Just like National Geographic’s, I’ll be live blogging the show. Stay tuned…..

CIN has an update on the bunker (fuel) salvage operation: The Concordia Emergency Commissioner’s Office and Costa Crociere have announced that the pumping of fuel from the Costa Concordia has been continuing around the clock since 5 pm on Feb.…

Jim Walker posed the following on his CruiseLaw Blog. I have a feeling they are going to get annihilated in court. Simply clueless. I have three semesters of maritime/admiralty law under my belt and even I can tell these are…

Discovery Channel announced that this Sunday Feb. 19th. Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside the Concordia is set to premier. Here’s what they say about it: Sunday, February 19th Discovery will take you to where few have gone and where nobody wants…

Speechless really. Well I guess it saves the reputations of some of the officers, but it really paints the captain in even worse light (if that’s even possible.)

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Well as the title says it, National Geographic here in the States, will be premiering the special. I’m not anticipating anything new, but the plethora of interviews sure to be features, might provide a different insight. Stay tuned here as…

Weather has begun to have its impact on the Concordia. Look at the 0:50 mark for the glass dome over the main pool to fall off. It was not the divers as I originally suspected. Here’s what is left of the aft…

I’m testing out some new code for CruiseInd. Hopefully this makes viewing photos more simple and enjoyable. What do you think?     All photos courtesy of Ermanno Carbone via Shipspotting. Taken January 15th.

Look at the center pool area. It looks like they wedged the retractable dome open in that area. Just something I noticed.

Good morning everyone. Here’s the latest: Unfavorable weather will not relent. Therefore, officials will call off the search for the remaining bodies. Currently there are 15 pax and crew still missing. Costa parent company Carnival Corp., disclosed the financial impact…

As I mentioned yesterday, I have been trying to find pictures of the Concordia post and during the evacuation. It seems that photos exist of her prior to the evacuation, just when she started to develop the list. And plenty…

Divers have recovered a 17th body from inside the wreck on deck 6.   Weather continues to hamper recovery and prelim work on the ships fuel tanks. Smit is scheduled to start pumping out the heavy bunker fuel midweek. AP…

Gene Sloan from USA Today’s CruiseLog: Spokespeople for two of the lines, Princess Cruises and Holland America, said they would have no comment on the subject. A spokeswoman for Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises, which are sister lines, said on…

Costa released the below, following claims that they only offered survivors of the Concordia a refund and 30% discount on a future cruise: ============================================ With reference to news reports on discounts and promotional offers, Costa Cruises feels bound to point…

Another body was found, said to be an elderly woman with a life vest,  bringing the death toll up to 16 16 are still reported missing Preparation began today for the removal of the ships bunkers(fuel) via siphoning. Divers have…

2 more bodies were just found. The death toll rises to 15. 18 are still missing By now I’m sure you’re aware that the accident was caused by the Captain navigation too close to the Island. Last night into this…

Death toll now up to 13 The passenger was found on submerged deck near the bow of the vessel Number of missing now at 20 Divers entered the Captain’s cabin and according to Italian news agency ANSA, removed his safe…

            Is it just me or should Costa’s CEO really stop talking…. Doesn’t seem like these put the company in the best light. If anyone’s curious,  Pier Luigi Foschi, formally titled Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Costa Crociere,…

but when I see video below, its hard to believe. I’m referring to the gCaptain interview where a member of the crew said shame to all those criticizing them.

The above video shows how divers are searching the balconies and looking into all the cabins.

Here’s what has happened yesterday and today. The number of missing is at 21. Divers recovered a body this morning bringing the death toll up to 12. The passenger was said to have a life jacket on. They were found…

The video above shows that the vessel impacted the rocks prior to the Port of Giglio at a speed of just over 15kts. If the above is to be believed based on vessel heading, the captain made it worse by…

Last night Carnival Corp. chairman and CEO Micky Arison tweeted: We just announced a comprehensive Audit &Review of Safety & Emergency Response Across All our Cruise Lines source Also last night, rival Royal Caribbean CEO Adam Goldstein also posed the…

This video is impossible to resize…. Here is a new video that shows just how clueless the officers on the bridge thought. The ship had supposedly hit the rocks 30min prior to this recording.