The cruise ship Costa Concordia, which wrecked in 2012 killing 32 people, is floating again off the coast of Italy's Giglio Island. Thanks to a salvage operation that's cost more than 1 billion euro so far, the ship is now floating three feet above the undersea platform it had been resting on for the past year.
The Costa Concordia cruise ship, which crashed off the coast of Italy's Giglio Island in January of 2012, killing 32, has been slowly breaking down in the water for over two years. Authorities announced that they will begin to clear away the wreckage as early as Monday.
Just 20 months after it capsized off the Italian coast, the Costa Concordia cruise ship was finally pulled completely upright early Tuesday morning. The “daring and unprecedented” operation took 19-hours, but you can watch the whole parbuckling in the one-minute video above.
The captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which cost 32 passengers their lives when it capsized back in January (allegedly because the captain was literally showboating for a friend on the shore) gave his first full interview about the accident Wednesday. He's way less sorry than you might expect.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said something that many would interpret as sort of insane on television yesterday, comparing President Obama to the Italian cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino, who ran away like a little pussy while all those people on his boat were dying.
Those passengers fortunate enough to survive last week's cruise ship disaster will be happy to know that their next seafaring vacation will come at a reduced cost. Costa Cruises spokespeople confirmed to the Telegraph that, "The company is not only going to refund everybody but they will offer a 30 per cent discount…
The cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized over the weekend, just off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio, killing at least six and terrifying the ship's 4,200 passengers. (All but 15 have been accounted for.) It sounds unbelievably horrifying. But also sort of funny.
