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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MUNICH, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Insurance industry payouts related to last year's sinking of cruise liner Costa Concordia have continued to rise and are likely to top $1.1 billion as salvaging of the wreck ...

— -- ROME (AP) — Italian officials say they have identified the bodies of an American couple and two German nationals who perished when the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsized. In a posting on ...

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 ...