The Story Of The Costa Concordia

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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is it it's over for us what's up guys my name is Jake I remember on the evening of January 13 2012 I saw a news report claiming that a Costa cruise ship had run aground off the coast of Italy it wasn't until the following morning when the first pictures began emerging that I saw the full extent of a tragedy that would not only change the cruise industry forever but would become the most infamous ship disaster next to the Titanic today I wanted to tell the incredible and truly unfathomable story of the sinking of the Costa Concordia so Costa or Costa cruise lines however you want to pronounce it is owned by the Carnival Corporation it was founded in the mid-1800s and eventually became a pretty prominent European cruise line it was eventually purchased by Carnival in 2000 and began building ships based on the designs already proving very successful for Carnival Costa then began ordering ships based off the general design of carnivals conquest class just another 4,000 tons larger in 2004 Costa ordered the first ship of its brand-new class named the Costa Concordia the vessel completed construction and entered service for Costa on June 30th 2006 at the cost of five hundred and seventy million dollars at the time the ship was the largest in the coast of fleets she was nine hundred and fifty two feet long had a beam of 116 feets span thirteen public decks and had a top speed of 23 knots the Concordia was the new flagship vessel of the coast of fleets and the company ensured that the ship would be the very best they had to offer while it wasn't anything that drastically different than the previous Carnival and coast of vessels it did feature a massive two-story spa along with four pools the ship center pool featured an outdoor movie screen and the kids / family pool would end from a twisting waterslide below the top decks the ship would feature five restaurants 13 bars and the grand atrium that soared 10 Dorries it was a culmination of everything the modern cruise industry had and really was the new shining star for the Carnival Corporation she truly was a modern enormous cruise ship the Costa Concordia had 1502 guest cabins and 601 crew cabins allowing the vessel to carry a maximum of four thousand eight hundred and ninety people following the Concordia Costa ordered another five ships in its class all being sisters to the Concordia captaining the vessel since its 2006 launch was Francesco Schettino an Italian man who had been working for Costa since 2002 the Concordia began cruises catering to the Italian market sailing mostly in the Mediterranean she continued with regular cruises carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers until early 2012 when one January night changed cruising forever the Costa Concordia was starting at seven-day Mediterranean cruise starting from the point of keg Lurie On January 11 2012 after it stopped in Sicily the vessel arrived in Civita Vecchia Italy on Friday the 13th 2012 by sunset the Costa Concordia had set sail on its way to Savona the official course charted took the vessel directly down the center between Italy's mainland and the island of Giglio however deviation was made on the official route to take the vessel much closer to the island to perform what is known as a sale by salute this was a deliberate action to take the ship relatively close offshore to give passengers a unique view of the island and also as a nod to fellow sailors on land this isn't really a new thing for cruise ships nor is it new for the Concordia which had performed this maneuver several times before even for the island of Giglio as night falls the vessel is making its deviation course towards the island of Giglio on the bridge deck officers are guiding the ship as captain Schettino is eating dinner the officers on the bridge are instructed to keep at least 1500 feet away from the island shore as that was the determined safe distance by 9:40 p.m. the Costa Concordia is moving at 15 knots and is about to make its turn for the island the captain returns to the bridge along with his mistress yeah I'll talk about that a little later however there is a miscommunication between the captain to the officer at helm on what the correct turning course should be because of the incorrect heading numbers the turning radius of the ship to sail alongside the island was much wider than it should have been which brought the colossal ships 659 metres closer to the shore than it was supposed to be the Concordia is immediately ordered by the captain to turn 20 degrees to the right seconds later at 9:44 p.m. the port side of the ship collides with underwater rocks creating a 60 metre gash in the hull breaching several watertight compartments the Concordia immediately lost power in its generators and full propulsion from its two engines panic ensued in the main dining rooms where passengers had been eating as the ship's emergency generators kicked in by 951 an announcement was made to passengers ensuring the situation had been under control and that technicians were working on fixing the problem however moments later the bridge was informed that three compartments had been breached and that water has reached the main electrical panel this was communicated to Costa cruise lines Crisis Center via captain Schettino minutes later by 1007 p.m. the harbour contacts the Concordia however the ship claims that the situation is only a blackouts and that they have the situation under control during this time the deputy chief engineer meets with the officers on the bridge to inform them that the flooding has appeared to reach compartments four five six and seven at this point the ship is starting to list as water fills the watertight compartments and the passengers are making their way down to deck four where the light boats are located themselves [Music] captain Schettino did make the decision to let the ship drift into shallow water where at worst case the vessel would rest on the seabed however his pumps failed the flooding worsened as to the ship's listing even at this time not the captain nor Costa cruise lines contacted anyone for help however as the situation below decks worsened and as passengers climbed into light boats themselves finally at 10:35 p.m. the bridge calls for an abandon ship and the emergency alarm is sounded there are currently four thousand two hundred and twenty nine people aboard the Costa Concordia by now all passengers and crew are making their way down to deck four and crowding around the light boats as one by one are launched at 11 o'clock p.m. the ship is now listing on its starboard side more than 25 degrees by this point any hope of the vessel being saved was gone and as light boats continue to launch the list continued to worsen by now the majority of the bridge officers had their positions including captain Schettino and by 11:30 the Costa Concordia is bridge had been abandoned as water reached deck for the sinking of the ship accelerated as listing got to the point where light boats being launched from the port side was impossible 80 people remained on the ship ascending down the side of the hull by a rope ladder where rescue boats by the Coast Guard were waiting captain Schettino however had already returned to the shore where the Coast Guard began demanding him to return to the vessel he never did [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the Coast Guard continued to rescue people still clinging to the side of the ship as most residents living on the island of Giglio welcomed the stranded passengers into their homes because of the way the Costa Concordia drifted on to shore the vessel rested on the shoreline rocks at around an 80 degree angle with its starboard side completely submerged by 6:17 a.m. rescue operations concluded and the Rising Sun revealed the true extent of the disaster since the vessel partially capsized on its starboard side the gaping hole on the port side showed just how severe the impact was daylight also revealed that three of the ships portside lifeboats were never able to be launched which is why so many people were left aboard the ship as a result of the capsizing thirty-two people have been killed 27 of whom had been passengers and five being crew members almost all of which had been trapped below as water rushed into the ship truly I can't even begin to imagine the horror it would have been like bodies were recovered mostly on the lower decks indicating people were trapped inside the vessel as a capsized in the atrium elevators four bodies had been discovered trapped inside as well as another nine bodies trapped in two other elevators soon after the wreck carnival and their insurance company had deemed the vessel a total loss as damages had exceeded 500 million dollars oil and fuel had been extracted salvage crews began working on removing the wreck however removing a 114 thousand ton half submerged cruise ship proved to be a pretty daunting task the plan was to place a steel structure under the Concordia and turn it upright massive buoyancy tanks were welded to the ship's port side and on September 16th 2013 the Costa Concordia was turned upright resting on the underwater platform turning the vessel upright showed just how unbelievably heavy the ship was as arrested on its side completely crushing sections of the ship's steel balconies up writing the vessel also allowed pictures to be taken inside showcasing the true extent of the damage it's so surreal to see a modern cruise ship have its interior slowly decay from being abandoned and untouched buoyancy tanks were fitted to the ship's other side the starboard side and the Concordia was slowly lifted off its platform now freely floating and on July 14th the vessel was towed on its final voyage to the Italian port of Genoa where the ship was completely gutted scrapping began by cutting sections of the ship apart and by July of 2017 the Costa Concordia had been completely dismantled and sold for scrap metal the total cost of the salvage operation was 1.2 billion dollars following the disaster the search to find who was responsible concluded with six arrests and prosecutions several of the Concordia's first officers were given jail sentences most mean under two years Costa cruise lines crisis director who captain Schettino had been contacting during the events had been given the longest sentence of the five with two years and 10 months as for captain Francesco Schettino himself well his story was well sketchy to say the least he claimed that during the ordeal he had been coordinating the rescue when he had slipped and stumbled into a lifeboat due to the listing of the ship a video later emerged of what appeared to be captain Schettino calmly standing at the railing on deck waiting to board a lifeboat though he claimed that this was not him it was also later revealed that he had been having an affair with a woman that he brought aboard the Concordia with note she by the way like I said earlier was taken to the bridge of the vessel when all of this happened however he assured that she did not affect the disaster he also claimed that he should not be responsible for the deaths of the 32 people aboard as they were not killed as a result of the initial impact and instead by the sinking the only good thing captain Schettino did was make the decision to deliberately ground the ship so it wouldn't fully sink if the Concordia sank about 700 feet where it eventually did the entire vessel would have likely went under and it's possible that many more people would have been killed Schettino was charged for manslaughter causing shipwreck and abandoning passengers he was given a 16 year jail sentence which he is currently serving the Carnival Corporation certainly felt the financial impact of the disaster in their 2012 annual report they claimed that as a direct result of the Costa Concordia incidents the company had lost 410 million dollars in declined revenue though 2012 was not a great year for Carnival at all with the addition of the Carnival Triumph power failure in the same year Carnival offered each of the Concordia survivors $13,000 which included the refund of their cruise great honestly I just think the whole situation is truly unbelievable I don't really like Carnival at all and I think I have a fair reason to the company Gannet subsidiaries have done so many shady things and the safety features that had implemented on the Concordia well sucked the fact that a modern cruise ship owned by the largest cruise line in the world could have something like this happened is unfathomable the Costa Concordia was only five years old it cost 570 million dollars which was all put to waste just a few years later the disaster in its entirety ended up costing around two billion dollars Costa has now been building new ships once again and in carnival's defense they did change CEOs and they have been focusing a lot more on building back their safety reputation which to be fair I can appreciate it really is hard to believe though that 100 years after the Titanic sank off the coast of a small Italian island human error once again brought down what we thought was an unsink vessel the Costa Concordia anyway guys thank you so much for watching my name is Jake follow us on Twitter Instagram and snapchat and thank you very much for watching [Music] you

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Channel: Bright Sun Films

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Keywords: Costa Concordia, Costa Cruise Lines, Carnival Cruise lines, the fun ships, cruise ship, giglio, italy, family cruise, family, kids, clean, cruise ship disaster, pool, slide, january 13th, 2012, listing, francesco schettino, captain, abandon ship, abandoned, urbex, creepy, ocean, costa pacifica, carnival dream, italian coast guard, ABC news, CNN news, documentary, sinking, costa sinks, cruise ship crash, cruise ship sinking, salvage, 2017, 2018, lifeboat, ship sinking, shp crash, grounding, ship

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Length: 17min 48sec (1068 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 26 2018

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Captain said he slipped and fell into the lifeboat...wonder if he used the same excuse to his wife about his mistress.

👍︎︎ 135 👤︎︎ u/net_sum_zero 📅︎︎ Jan 27 2018 🗫︎ replies

Coast guard dude was rather pissed there with good reason, disgracefully cowardly behavior on the parts of the bridge crew and the captain in particular.

👍︎︎ 143 👤︎︎ u/SessileRaptor 📅︎︎ Jan 27 2018 🗫︎ replies

I worked on cruise ships when this happened. I also worked with someone who was on it when it happened in the kids club. Most of the parents did not collect their kids and got off the ship without them. Youth staff took them to a life raft and the parents were already on shore.

👍︎︎ 82 👤︎︎ u/bugenhagen15 📅︎︎ Jan 27 2018 🗫︎ replies

I enjoyed this video, thanks for putting it together.

I always wondered some of the details of what the crew and captain were up to during this ordeal. I can’t believe his responses when being told to return to the ship.

👍︎︎ 27 👤︎︎ u/jfrancasi 📅︎︎ Jan 27 2018 🗫︎ replies

16 years in prison hardly seems fair when 32 lives were lost

👍︎︎ 55 👤︎︎ u/sothisisallthereis 📅︎︎ Jan 27 2018 🗫︎ replies

The song The Ballad of Costa Concordia by Car Seat Headrest is really a great song.

👍︎︎ 12 👤︎︎ u/libsmak 📅︎︎ Jan 27 2018 🗫︎ replies

I don't think it's right to label this human error. Error would mean that they tried to do it right but made mistakes carrying it out. What happened in this case was that the captain deliberately directed the ship too close to the shoals and rocks around an infamously unsafe island that's a long known hazard to navigation in an attempt to stroke his own ego in front of the passengers. It shouldn't be excused as an error to intentionally hazard your ship in such a fashion but rather regarded as a malicious act.

👍︎︎ 35 👤︎︎ u/blbd 📅︎︎ Jan 27 2018 🗫︎ replies

"Unfathomable"

"Unimaginable"

"Unfathomable"

"Unimaginable"

The guy is trying really hard to be dramatic. Dude, just tell the story.

👍︎︎ 26 👤︎︎ u/caseycoold 📅︎︎ Jan 27 2018 🗫︎ replies

Why is this tagged as "Aviation Accident"?

👍︎︎ 4 👤︎︎ u/stephen1547 📅︎︎ Jan 28 2018 🗫︎ replies