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On the night of Friday the 13th, a luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia” with more than 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members on board hit a reef, lists and partially sank off the coast of the island of Giglio, Italy. Six people have already been confirmed dead, including two French passengers and one crew member from Peru. All of them drowned in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea after the crash. 14 people are still missing, and rescuers continue to search for survivors. The accident occurred just a few hours after sailing, and the passengers had not yet had time to conduct a safety briefing, so chaos reigned on the ship during the evacuation. Captain Francesco Schettino was arrested. Among other charges, he is also accused of being one of the first to leave the ship. Collected in this issue are photographs of the sunken Costa Concordia and attempts to find the 14 passengers.

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1. "Costa Concordia" after the crash off the coast of the island of Giglio. 6 passengers drowned, 14 still missing after an Italian liner with 4,200 people on board ran aground. "Costa Concordia" went for a walk along mediterranean sea, but stumbled upon a reef on Friday 13 January. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

2. Passengers with life jackets aboard the Costa Concordia are waiting for the start of the operation. (AP Photo/Courtesy from tourist aboard the ship)

3. The cruise liner "Costa Concordia" tilted, running aground off the coast of the island of Giglio. (AP Photo/Giglionews.it, Giorgio Fanciulli)

4. The Costa Concordia passenger arrived with others at the port of Santo Stefano after the ship wrecked. Some of the passengers jumped into the icy waters as the panic set in. The ship sailed the Mediterranean to Savona with scheduled stops at Civitavecchia, Palermo, Cagliari, Palma, Barcelona and Marseille. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

5. The family from the liner "Costa Concordia" arrived in the bay in Marseille. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

6. Costa Concordia west coast Giglio Islands in Italy. (Reuters/Italian Guardia di Finanza)

7. "Costa Concordia" lies on its side after the crash. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

8. Holes in the ship's hull. (Reuters/Stringer)

9. Firefighters inspect huge boulders sticking out of the hull of the Costa Concordia cruise ship the day after the crash. (AP Photo/Andrea Sinibaldi, Lapresse)

10. "Costa Concordia" surrounded by small ships. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

11. "Costa Concordia" at night in the bay of the Tuscan island of Giglio. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

12. Rescue ship illuminates the sunken liner. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

13. Italian firefighters climb the "Costa Concordia". (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

14. Firemen inspect the semi-submerged ship. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

15. Rescuers check the waters around with "Costa Concordia" after the crash of the ship. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

16. People look at a pile of sun loungers on the tilted deck of the Costa Concordia. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

17. Partially submerged cabins of the Costa Concordia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

18. An Italian fire helicopter picks up passengers from the Costa Concordia. Firefighters worked all Sunday to rescue a crew member with a broken leg 36 hours after the tragedy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

19. Divers inspect the semi-submerged Costa Concordia. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

20. Italian coast guard with a black box from the liner "Costa Concordia". (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

21. The captain of the cruise ship "Costa Concordia" Francesco Schettino (right) put in a police car in Grosseto, Italy. Schettino was arrested on charges of premeditated murder and being one of the first to leave the ship. (Reuters/Enzo Russo/ANSA)

22. "Costa Concordia" off the west coast of the island of Giglio, Italy. (Reuters/Stringer)

Not so long ago, one of the most expensive and unprecedented projects in history, which cost 600 million euros, was completed, more than 500 people from 24 countries around the world were involved - the rise of the cruise liner Costa Concordia, partially sunk off the coast of Tuscany (Giglio Island).

Such an operation is practically unprecedented. Cases where such a quantity of force was used can be counted on the fingers. However, neither the risks associated with lifting the liner nor its high cost shook the confidence of the engineers that it was necessary to carry out the lifting.

History of the crash of the Costa Concordia

On January 13, 2012, the liner followed the course of route 7 Night Winter Mediterranean, which involves leaving the port of Civitavecchia to Savona, last cruise assumed the entry of the liner into the ports of Barcelona, Marseille and several other Italian ports.

January 13, 2012, 22:00 CET the ship was near the island of Giglio (Tuscany, Italy), most of passengers at this time dined in a restaurant. It was then that Costa Concordia ran into a reef, as a result of which it received a hole of about 30 meters. started rescue operation.

From this moment, disagreements begin between the participants in the events - the passengers and the personnel of the liner. It is worth noting that all data can be interpreted from the perspective of individuals, and there are many of these positions (if not to say that almost everyone has their own), but the essence is still the same. According to the victims of the crash, after the collision, the ship tilted, causing panic among most of the passengers, the reaction of the ship's captain was not long in coming, and problems with the liner's generator were announced over the speakerphone.

Despite the fact that further events will develop not in better side, the ship's captain continues to hold this view. Despite this, the evacuation continues and passengers gather en masse near the boats. As many passengers note, the liner personnel failed to organize a smooth loading onto the boats. According to the investigation, which was carried out later, it turned out that the captain of the ship, Schettino, left the ship among the first.

After loading onto boats and launching, the personnel and passengers were transported to the shore, where the victims were given first aid. Worth noting help local residents, which provided passengers with warm clothes, food and allocated places for the night. Passengers occupied schools, churches and hotels.

Victims of the Costa Concordia cruise ship crash

On the morning of January 14, 2012 Costa Concordia lay down on the starboard side, touching the bottom. The search for missing persons is organized.

At the time of January 17, the number of victims was 11 people, as well as 25 people were listed as missing. By the beginning of February, search work was stopped in the flooded part of the ship due to the risk to scuba divers conducting search and rescue operations. And by the end of March, data were received on 30 dead and two missing.

Causes of the accident of a passenger liner and punishment of those responsible

As the investigation found out, the cause of the accident was a collision of the liner with a reef, among other things, they do not exclude, as well, a technical failure of the liner's equipment. The experts were outraged by the fact that despite the fact that the liner passes this route 52 times a year, there was a deviation from the course by 3-4 miles. This can be explained by the initial statements of the captain of the liner Francesco Schettino, who said that having shifted to the side coastline he wanted to greet his friend former captain Costa Concordia), who lives on the island. However, in the future, Schettino retracted his testimony and shifted the blame to the company manager, who, according to him, insisted that the ship come closer to the shore.

Deciphering the black box showed that the ship was too close to the shore, the start of the evacuation was too late, in addition, the captain did not give a distress signal, which delayed the start of the rescue operation. Until July 17, 2013, Schettino was under house arrest by court order. On this moment there is a trial, the term proposed by the prosecutor - 2697 years in prison.

Cleanup and rise of Costa Concordia

Already three days after the crash of the ship, an oily liquid began to flow from the ship, experts reassured the public with assurances that it was not fuel. The pumping of fuel began, as there was a possibility that the ship would slide off the cliff. If this happened, more than 2,000 tons could end up at sea. Naturally, no one smiled at such a prospect. However, already on March 24, it was announced that the fuel was pumped out, and literally a month later a tender was held to raise and evacuate the vessel, which was won by Titan Salvage.

The plan for lifting the ship is quite simple, but it required significant investments, and the operation itself was associated with a high risk of failure of the event, which both the company's engineers and leading experts spoke about more than once. In mid-2013, work continues to prepare for the lifting of the vessel.

On September 16, at 9 am, the operation to lift the Costa Concordia was launched. The length of the liner is 290 meters, the angle of heel was 70 degrees, and the water level was 20 meters. The planned operation time is ideally 12 hours. Below is a graphic plan for lifting the liner.

On September 17, after 19 hours, the operation was finally completed successfully, it was possible to bring the ship to a horizontal position. As a result of the operation, Franco Porcelachi, Vice President of ARNIVAL CORPORATION, reported that everything went perfectly, and most importantly, no environmental damage was noticed. However, despite the fact that the rise was completed successfully, experts do not consider it necessary to relax and remind that this is not the end. In the spring, the liner will have to be transported to the shipyard, where the Costa Concordia will be dismantled.

"Mikhail Lermontov"

On February 16, 1986, the ship "Mikhail Lermontov" sank: the Soviet cruise ship sank off the coast of New Zealand. The people on board - 408 passengers, a significant part of them of retirement age, 330 crew members and a New Zealand pilot - were rescued by the Tarihiko tanker and the Arahura ferry that approached the place of the wreck. One person died in the crash: Pavel Zaglyadimov, an engineer of refrigeration units, who worked in a compartment that was flooded immediately after the collision. We decided to recall seven shipwrecked cruise ships.

"MIKHAIL LERMONTOV"

The ship "Mikhail Lermontov" was built at the shipyard of the German port of Wismar in 1972 and was put into operation in 1973. Its purpose was to serve regular cruise lines. In the same year, on May 28, the ship "Mikhail Lermontov" set off on its first voyage along the Bremerhaven-London-Havre-New York route, becoming the first Soviet passenger ship to visit a foreign American port in the last 25 years.

On five passenger decks, connected by ladders and elevators, there were 239 cabins, which could accommodate 550 passengers with all amenities. The crew consisted of 350 people and was located on the lower decks. At the service of passengers there was a music salon with a stage, a restaurant, five bars, a beauty salon, a hairdresser, a casino, a library, a winter garden, shops, tennis courts.

In your last flight the liner departed from the port of Leningrad on Friday, November 22, 1985. Having reached New Zealand Wellington, after a short stay, on February 16, 1986, in Shakespeare Bay off the coast of New Zealand, at 17 hours 38 minutes local time, at a speed of about 15 knots, the ship twice hit the bottom of a rocky shoal in the area of Cape Jackson and received an extensive hole in port side below the waterline. A distress signal was sent and received by Wellington radio. The Arahura ferry, heading from Picton through the Cook Strait, and the Tarihiko tanker, which took on board 356 passengers and crew members, headed for the liner in distress. In addition to the tanker and the ferry, small fishing vessels took part in rescuing passengers and crew and rushing to help.

After the death of the ship, there were many different rumors about the hidden causes of the disaster. Officially, the senior assistant to the captain, Sergei Stepanishchev, was recognized as the culprit of the disaster, as the senior officer who was on the bridge at the time of the collision. At the same time, the court took into account the illegal actions of a New Zealand citizen, pilot Donald Jemison, who indicated the wrong course. Attempts to raise the liner sunken at a depth were not made. There is an opinion that the Soviet liner interfered with Western competitors: the USSR Ministry of the Passenger Fleet sold tickets at reduced prices by reducing costs. Our sea vessels used Soviet fuel, which was much cheaper than Western. In England, tickets for a Soviet liner were sold at a price of $70 per day. A ten-day boat tour cost $700.

The remains of the ship are still at a depth of 25-30 meters and are popular place diving.

"ADMIRAL NAKHIMOV"

The Soviet passenger ship was wrecked on August 31, 1986, 15 km from Novorossiysk, 4 km from the coast. Until that day, "Admiral Nakhimov" had been making cruise voyages along the Crimean-Caucasian line for 29 years.

The ship was built in 1925 in Germany and bore the name "Berlin" Until 1939, "Berlin" made regular flights across the Atlantic, between the ports of Bremerhaven and New York. During the Second World War, the ship sank, but was raised, repaired and sold to the USSR in 1957. Over time, "Admiral Nakhimov" gained popularity in the country. The newlyweds have a fashion to make honeymoon travel on the Admiral Nakhimov. Vouchers for this ship were sold out six months before the start of the cruise.

On the day of the tragedy, along with the crew, there were 1243 people on the ship, including the head of the KGB department for Odessa region Major General A. Krikunov and his family, who arrived at the ship's departure from Novorossiysk. At 22:00, having taken passengers on board, the ship went to sea, moving towards Sochi. At this time, the Pyotr Vasev, a cargo ship-dry cargo ship, of a larger displacement, entered the Tsemess Bay, following a course of 36 degrees at a speed of 11.5 knots. The ships approached on intersecting courses. The total speed of their movement was over 23 knots, or 43 kilometers per hour. Dispatchers suggested that Viktor Tkachenko, the captain of the dry-cargo ship "Pyotr Vasev" passenger liner"Admiral Nakhimov", to which he agreed. After that, both ships negotiated among themselves, specifying the details of the maneuver. However, at 23.12, Pyotr Vasev crashed with its bow at a right angle into the starboard side of the steamer, cutting a hole in it 8 by 10 meters. The liner went to the bottom in just 8 minutes. From the sinking ship, the sailors managed to throw off most of the inflatable life rafts, which became the only means of salvation for drowning people. At the crash site, about 1000 people were floundering on the surface of the water at the same time, many objects and debris floated. The wind and current began to carry the injured people directly to the dry cargo ship, and after a while several dozen people floated on both sides.

The captain of the port of Novorossiysk was immediately informed about the collision of the ships, who sent port fleet tugs, offshore and small passenger boats to the crash site. Total, by official version, as a result of the disaster, 423 passengers and crew members died. However, not all the dead were found and raised to the surface. 64 people remained forever under water.

ANDREA DORIA

Italian transatlantic liner, first launched on June 16, 1951 and distinguished by special safety, sank on July 26, 1956 11 hours after a collision with the Stockholm liner off the coast of New York. Andrea Doria was not just a liner. He personified the revival of the Italian merchant marine after the Second World War. With a gross tonnage of 29,100 gross tonnage and a length of 212 meters and a beam of 27.5 meters, the vessel was one of the largest and fastest ships in the world. The premises of the liner were decorated with works of art. Each classroom has a cinema hall and a swimming pool with a recreation area.

July 25, 1956 "Andrea Doria" with 1134 passengers and 500 crew members on board, moving in the fog at a speed of 21.8 knots, was approaching the lighthouse on Nantucket Island. Almost the entire route was completed. The speed was higher than the maximum allowed in such weather conditions. At the same time, the 12,000-ton Swedish liner Stockholm was about to sail from New York. He was to pass within one mile of the lightship Nantucket, and then change course north to the coast of Scandinavia. However, in thick fog, a collision could not be avoided. On the bridges of both ships, they saw each other's lights almost simultaneously: "Stockholm" broke through 7 decks, and from the impact of "Andrea Doria" heeled heavily to the left, turned sharply, exposing the propellers, and continuing to go at full speed, dragged the Swedish ship behind him.

According to the emergency order, each of the 1250 passengers and 575 crew members were to sit in lifeboats, only 8 people and the captain had to remain on the liner to control eight winches, which lowered all sixteen boats. The accident occurred on a busy section of the route, so help arrived quickly. When the roll of the Andrea Doria increased by 8 degrees, boats from the Stockholm, Ile de France, the Private William Thomas military transport, the Cape Ann fruit carrier and other responding ships approached the ship. The rescue of the passengers of the Andrea Doria was the most successful rescue operation in the history of shipwrecks: it was possible to save all the passengers of the liner.

The Italian liner is still lying at a depth of 72 meters, 40 miles from american island Nantucket. In addition to art objects, there were safes with passengers' money and jewelry on the ship. However, all attempts to raise the ship were unsuccessful. Over the past ten years, more than 15 divers have died here.

"COSTA CONCORDIA"

The liner "Concordia" in 2006 was in 10th place in the TOP-10 largest cruise ships in the world. Its length was 290 meters, which is comparable to three football fields. The ship was wrecked on January 13, 2012 near Italian island Giglio off the coast of the Tuscany region, having veered off course and approached the shore. At full speed, the liner pierced the bottom of coastal cliffs and tilted about 20 degrees. As a result of the impact, a long hole of 50 meters was formed on the hull. Almost instantly, the engine room was flooded and control over the engines and electronic systems was lost.

The last cruise called at the ports of several Italian cities as well as Barcelona and Marseille. On board the ship were 3216 passengers from 62 countries and 1023 crew members. During the crash of the liner, 32 people died, more than 4 thousand people were evacuated. The captain of the Concordia, Francesco Schettino, was arrested. According to the prosecution, he brought the cruise ship too close to the coast. If found guilty, the captain faces up to 20 years in prison. Francesco Schettino himself denies the accusations against him, arguing that the rock that the liner ran into was not on the sea charts.

613 days after the disaster, work began on lifting the vessel. The rescue operation was the largest and most expensive in history: it cost $ 800 million, and it took many months to prepare. On September 17, 2013, the ship was brought to a vertical position using rollers and 36 steel cables and a special platform built at a depth of 30 m.

Sea Diamond

The cruise ship Sea Diamond was shipwrecked on April 5, 2007 near Greek island Santorini. The ship was owned by Louis Hellenic Cruise Lines. Sea Diamond hit and hit the reef volcanic origin. The vessel, commissioned in 1986, was 142.9 m long and 24.7 m wide. Sea Diamond accommodated 1.5 thousand people, but at that time there were about 1.1 thousand people on board . All of them were evacuated with the exception of two people: the French, a daughter and a father, who are considered missing. On April 6, 2007, the ship sank at a depth of 200 m.

The Titanic The Britannic was the twin of the Titanic. It was the third and last Olympic-class ship ordered by White Star Line. The liners were supposed to be named after ancient Greek characters: Olympians, titans and giants. But, according to legend, the titans and giants died in the battle with the Olympians, and calling the new ship "Gigantic" would be as impudent as in the case of the "Titanic". Therefore, the ship was named the Britannic. Due to the Titanic disaster, changes were made to the design.

During the First World War, the Britannic was used as a hospital ship. On November 21, 1916, the liner was blown up by mines laid by the German submarine U73 under the command of Gustav Ziss in the Kea channel - between the island of Kea and mainland Greece. An evacuation was carried out. After some time, the ship capsized to starboard and sank 55 minutes after the explosion.

In addition to the crew, there were 3.3 thousand wounded on board. The crash killed 30 people. Most of them died in two lifeboats, which were pulled in by the still-rotating propeller.

Through the bitter-salty water, the decks of ships sunk at a shallow depth appear. Like ghosts from a parallel world, they plunged into oblivion and now frighten random witnesses from the depths.

At low tide, they approach the very surface, where the foot of a careless swimmer can touch the rusty and slimy side of the dead.

When the tide comes in, the sea hides the trophy, carrying it into the abyss of waves, under the weight of the higher waters. There, where everything is covered with the darkness of the depths: the wreckage of ships, and sunken cities, and octopuses, and storms, and boxes of gold...

Ship Cemetery in Trud Bay

Destroyers, patrol boats, submarines, landing ships - a total of 42 objects in a flooded and semi-flooded state. The main attraction of the Russky Island in the pictures from space.

Most of them are decommissioned ships of the Pacific Fleet. Many have been waiting for their fate since the mid-1970s, and have already lost all hope of recycling under normal conditions. These days, Truda Bay has become a popular stand-up paddleboarding destination, thanks to its magnificent and intimidating views of the rusty backbones of ships lying underwater.

The remains of the "Phoenix" and BEKA-1 on Black Sea coast near Odessa

Sunken ship in Copenhagen harbor

"Island dead ships» off the coast of Australia

Carrier-based fighter F6F "Hellcat", shot down over the lagoon of the Pacific atoll

The legendary "Maud" (Maud) - the expedition ship of R. Amundsen, jammed with ice off the Arctic coast of Canada

The sunken schooner on Lake Huron already mentioned in the previous review. This time - aerial view

Cruiser "Murmansk", which flew into the rocks of Hammerfest. The most heroic representative of the entire collection of lost ships

The former flagship of the Northern Fleet, the KRL Murmansk served for 36 years, leaving over 240,000 nautical miles behind. In 1989, the old cruiser was removed from the active fleet and laid up; sold for metal three years later.

In December 1994, while being towed to India, the old warrior fell off the tow ropes. Death on the stinking beach of Alang seemed unworthy of the flagship of the Federation Council. Like a samurai who chose seppuku, the cruiser preferred to fall with his chest on sharp rocks.

He spent a long 15 years off the coast of Norway, turning into a local attraction for those who want to gawk at a Soviet warship. However, the fears of Norwegian environmentalists took over - in 2010, work began on the cutting of "Murmansk" in an impromptu drained "lagoon". To date, there are no traces left of him.

The Costa Concordia, one of the ten largest cruise ships in the world, crashed on January 13, 2012. In September 2013, off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio, a unique operation was successfully completed to raise a 300-meter sunken giant weighing 114,000 tons.

We have already discussed it with you. But on Wednesday, the Costa Concordia liner began its last trip- the ship went to the port of Genoa, where it is being dismantled.

How it was …

2. Confirming the notoriety of Friday the 13th, the huge cruise ship Costa Concordia (Costa Concordia), carrying more than 4,200 people, crashed on January 13, 2012 near the island of Giglio off the coast of Tuscany in Italy. (Photo by AP Photo | Giuseppe Modesti):

3. Freeze frame from the video as passengers leave the sinking ship, January 14, 2012. (Photo by Reuters | Guardia Costiera):

4. According to the captain, the cruise liner ran into rocks that were not indicated on the navigation chart. 32 people died, two are missing. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):

5. Later, the liner almost completely sank into the Mediterranean Sea. A scuba diver inspects the hull of the sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia six days later, January 19, 2012. (Photo by Reuters | Centro subacquei dei Carabinieri):

6. Damage and traces of raid on the reef are visible. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):

7. Under water, inside the ship is complete chaos, January 24, 2012. (Photo by AP Photo | Italian Navy GOS):

8. The Italian Titanic, the Costa Concordia cruise liner that sank in Italy, has been in trouble since its launch in 2005, when, according to an old maritime tradition, a bottle was supposed to be broken on the side of the ship. But the bottle didn't break. In 2008, the €450 million Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed into a pier off the coast of Naples, Italy. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):

9. 2013 At the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, work is underway to install equipment before bringing the ship into an upright position. This operation is truly unique. Previously, engineers had never had to work with such big ships. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):

10. The purpose of this operation was to remove the ship from the stones, raise and put it upright with the help of an underwater platform and cranes. Containers on the sides (below in the photo) allowed the entire structure to remain on the surface, September 15, 2013. (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):

11. The largest and most expensive maritime rescue operation in history costs about 250 million euros, and damage to owners amounted to 1.5 billion euros. The unique operation to raise a sunken ship off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio took less than a day - 19 hours. The ship was successfully keeled on September 17, 2013. (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):

12. The next phase of the operation began in July 2014. On Wednesday, the Costa Concordia liner began its last journey - the ship went to the port of Genoa, where it is being dismantled, July 22, 2014. (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):

An interesting fact: the Titanic sank on the night of April 13-14, 1912, and the Costa Concordia sank on the night of January 13-14, 2012, i.e. between these crashes is almost exactly 100 years of difference.

It is interesting to compare the "Titanic" and "Costa Concordia" according to the declared characteristics:

13. Damaged part of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, July 13, 2014. (Photo by Reuters | Alessandro Bianchi):

14. Let's look inside. The picture was taken on February 27, 2014. (Photo by Reuters | Carabinieri Police):

15. The Costa Concordia had 1,500 cabins, the world's largest seaside wellness center, four swimming pools, five spas, five restaurants, 13 bars, a cinema, a disco and an internet cafe. (Photo by Reuters/Carabinieri Police):

16. Among maritime disasters that occurred in peacetime, in terms of the number of victims, the Titanic ranks third - 1,513 people. The Doña Paz ferry, which collided with an oil tanker in 1987, remains in the lead. More than 4,000 people died in the clash and ensuing fire.

17. Inside the liner, time has stopped. Someone's suitcases. (Photo by Reuters | Carabinieri Police):

18. According to the passengers, when the ship had already received a hole, the crew, dressed in life jackets, persuaded the passengers to return to the cabins, assuring that nothing terrible was happening. (Photo by Reuters | Carabinieri Police):

19. For five days, Costa Concordia will have to overcome approximately 370 kilometers in tow, the ship will move at a speed of 2 knots, July 14, 2014. (Photo by Reuters | Alessandro Bianchi):

20. Preparatory work is underway before the last trip of the Costa Concordia liner, July 14, 2014. (Photo by Vincenzo Pinto | AFP | Getty Images):

25. (Photo by AP Photo | Gregorio Borgia):

27. This is the last trip of the Costa Concordia. In Genoa, a complex dismantling operation will take place, it will be divided into four phases, it will last 22 months. (Photo by AP Photo | Courtesy of the Italian Civil Protection Department):

Let's remember a few ships with interesting history: here's an example, but here's the story, as well as find out the secret. And here The original article is on the website InfoGlaz.rf Link to the article from which this copy is made -