Case 5.2: Carnival Cruise LinesWreck of the Costa Concordia
The boat started shaking. The noise – there was panic, like in a film, dishes crashing to the floor, people running, people falling down the stairs.
Fulvio Rocci, survivor1
The Crisis
At 4:00 pm on the evening of January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia set sail from Rome, Italy, for a seven-day cruise as it did every week. The ship was due to arrive in Savona, Italy, the next day. Around 9:15 pm, the ship took a five-mile detour to pass closer to the picturesque Tuscan Island of Giglio (see Figure 5.2).2 Captain Schettino appears to have misjudged the maneuver, and at 9:30 pm, the ship collided with a rocky reef known as Le Scole. The collision ripped ...
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