We learned that 6, 000 tons of water entered the Concordia in just 20 minutes.
The Concordia going down was bad enough, but all of these are just plain nonsense.
The Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, could face charges that include manslaughter and abandoning ship.
The Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, is being investigated for possible criminal charges and remains under house arrest.
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The Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, remains under house arrest while he is investigated for possible criminal charges.
At a U.S. Senate hearing in the aftermath of the Concordia disaster, there was tough questioning about the practice.
In the spring, a few months after the Concordia disaster, Costa released a statement that said bookings were robust.
Giving the latest time schedule, officials said that it might be possible to remove the Concordia as early as June.
The shipping newspaper Lloyd's List said it had been able to trace the course of the Concordia though information from satellites.
While passengers have little or no control over the abilities of their captain or crew, disasters like the Concordia are rare.
The Ananiases were among the last to get off the Concordia alive.
U.S.-based Titan Salvage of Florida and Micoperi, an Italy-based salvage, have been selected to recover and tow away the Concordia, Costa said.
Last week, I had a chance to sit down with the U.S. Ambassador at Large for Women, Melanne Verveer, at the Concordia Summit.
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But the Concordia disaster cast a shadow on a rapidly expanding industry that maintains it is one of the safest modes of transportation.
Whatever went wrong to cause or exacerbate the Concordia cruise ship disaster, most of the Concordia crew and passengers safely made it off the ship.
In July Steiner launched its largest-ever oceangoing operation, the 25, 000-square-foot Asian-theme Samsara Spa, with a fitness center, on the Concordia, run by Costa Cruises, a division of Carnival.
At least 30 people died in the Concordia crash, which forced Carnival and other cruise operators to pull marketing just as the key "wave season" for cruise reservations began.
The operation to right the Concordia is the biggest maritime salvage exercise ever undertaken with 111 divers working in shifts 24 hours a day from a floating accommodation support vessel tethered next to the wreck.
Since our first performance at Lincoln Center with the Concordia Orchestra and the Morgan State Choir in 1993, Too Hot to Handel has taken off and become an annual event with orchestras and audiences around the world.
Costa Crociere SpA, operator of the Costa Concordia, the ship that ran aground, makes up about 16% of Carnival's fleet, UBS estimated.
In green design news, a new architecture competition challenged designers to transform the Costa Concordia shipwreck off the coast of Italy into a new seaside park.
We have all seen complexity damage various kinds of enterprises in recent times: the Costa Concordia proved that the systems for evacuating over 4000 cruise ship passengers failed due to the complexity of the task.
Italian authorities are heading the investigation into the Costa Concordia accident, because the ship was flying under the Italian flag.
Seventeen people have been confirmed dead and another 16 still missing since the Costa Concordia struck rocks in the Mediterranean Sea on Jan. 13, triggering an evacuation of more than 4, 000 passengers and crew members.
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Last year, after the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Giglio, Italy, Rockefeller held a Commerce Committee hearing to examine deficiencies in the cruise line industry's compliance with federal safety, security, and environmental standards and review industry regulations.
The BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome says that whatever the cause of the crash, it has revived memories of the accident involving the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, which left 32 people dead.
The Costa Concordia still lies next to the rocky outcrops off Giglio Island in Italy's Tuscan coast.
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And when I wandered up to the deck at night, it was easy to imagine how frightened the passengers on board the Costa Concordia would have been when the boat first hit ground and then started to tip over in the dark.
But it is impossible to think that the sinking of the Costa Concordia will not lead to some changes to the culture of safety on board.
Reports from the Costa Concordia, however, raise questions about how well the evacuation was executed.
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