2012 Cruise Ship Sinking

Two French cruise passengers drown.

2012 cruise ship sinking. Thirty-two people died after the Costa Concordia cruis ship ran aground with more than 4000 passengers and crew on 13 January 2012 only hours after leaving the Italian port of Civitavecchia. Prosecutors accused the captain of piloting the ship. This Italian cruise ship ran aground on a reef off the coast of Tuscany Italy in January 2012 and toppled onto its side.

The ship embarks on a 7-day cruise from Civitavecchia near Rome with 4229 cruise passengers and crew members on board from 60 different countries. Francesco Schettino were charged with various crimes. Inside The Concordia gives you an eyewitness account of the tragedy as the Concordia runs aground.

Below is a timeline of events amid the cruise ship disaster that sunk off the coast of Italy Isola del Giglio. Cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground and keels over off the Isola del Giglio on late January 13 2012. Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

January 13 2012 Cruise Ship Sinkings Maria Grazia Trecarichi Costa Concordia Sinking Carnivals Costa Concordia January 13 2012 Time of Death 945-400. Directed by Michael Arnott Jonathan Ingalls Mark Westcott Ian White. Of the 4200 aboard 32 died and 64 were injured.

The Costa Concordia disaster Italian police escort the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner Francesco Schettino on January 14. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. By Leesfield Scolaro.

We had just left Catalina island that evening and we had to cancel our dinner plans because our ship started sinking. A South Korean woman is helped after being rescued with her husband Reuters. The 984-foot-long cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on the island of Giglio Italy killing at least three people.