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Jan 13, 2012

On 13 January 2012, at around 22:00 local time (UTC+1), Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef off Isola del Giglio

On 13 January 2012, at around 22:00 local time (UTC+1), Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef off Isola del Giglio (42°21′55″N 10°55′17″E / 42.36528°N 10.92139°E) and began listing heavily towards the starboard side. The ship was carrying 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members; in the next few days the bodies of 11 people were found. Two South Korean passengers and an Italian crew member were rescued from the ship on 15 January, more than 24 hours after the accident. As of 16 January 2012 around 16 people had not been accounted for. By 18 January, the figures had been revised to eleven confirmed dead and 23 missing.

Dutch salvage experts were called in to assess options for removing the ship, with 2,380 tons of fuel needing to be removed first, in order to prevent or mitigate an oil spill. Dutch company Smit International is responsible for removing the fuel, and offered to perform the salvage operation.
Carnival expects the ship to be out of service for the remainder of the cruising season."Given the extensive damage reported, it appears possible that the ship is a constructive total loss," said Tim Ramskill, analyst at Credit Suisse.

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Feb 26, 2010

Egypt investigates Costa crew over pier crash

Cairo/Dubai: Egyptian prosecutors on Saturday started to interrogate the crew of an Italian cruise liner, which had smashed into a dock during bad weather at the Red Sea resort town of Sharm Al Shaikh early on Friday.

The accident left three members of the Costa Europa crew dead.

"The pier will be repaired at the expense of the shipping company," said Mamdouh Deraz, the chairman of the Red Sea Ports Authority on Saturday. The official had formed a team to investigate the accident and compile a final report. No oficial charges have been filed against the crew.

"The cause of the crash is a 100 per cent human error," said a maritime official, who asked not to be named because he was not allowed to speak to the media. "And responsibility falls on the captain for this error," he added. "The three dead crewmen [an Indian, a Honduran, and a Brazilian] were working on the lower part of the ship when the smashing occurred and they were submerged by water," he added.

However, in Dubai, Costa Crociere Chairman and CEO Pier Luigi Foschi said: "Preliminary and ongoing investigations revealed that exceptional bad weather conditions and an unexpected wind blow caused the impact of the ship on the pier."