The captain goes down with their ship. That's a maritime tradition that means that when something goes wrong at sea, the captain stays at their post until as many people as possible get saved. When ...

The Costa Concordia disaster occurred on January 13, 2012. The cruise ship began its journey at approximately 7:18 p.m. from Civitavecchia, Italy. Furthermore, according to History.com, its ...

Never before has such an enormous cruise ship been righted. Salvage workers struggled to overcome obstacle after obstacle as they slowly inched toward their goal of raising the crippled ship 65 ...

— -- Why the cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized remains a mystery to world maritime and salvage experts two weeks after the tragedy that left 16 people dead and 16 still missing. The ...

An Italian court has placed Francesco Schettino, Costa Concordia’s captain and an 11-year Costa Cruises officer, under house arrest. He is now confined to his home in Naples, Italy. Schettino is ...

Italian cruise line Costa Crociere has been fined a million euros (£850,000) for the Concordia cruise ship sinking which killed 32 people. Costa had asked for a plea bargain deal to respond to the ...

Engineers in Italy have succeeded in setting the cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, 20 months after it capsized off the island of Giglio, reports the BBC. In the complicated, 19-hour operation to ...

The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia blamed his helmsman for the cruise ship crashing into a reef and killing 32 people as his trial got underway in Italy. Francesco Schettino told the court ...