The most famous maritime disasters in the world. Details of the wreck of the liner “Costa Concordia”

At least 6 people have died in the crash of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground and then sank in the Mediterranean off the coast of Italy.
It is noted that the number of victims may increase, since after the disaster, some passengers jumped overboard in cold water and their fate is still unknown.
Two hours before the crash, the cruise ship was diagnosed with a power failure, but the ship went to sea anyway.
The cruise of the Costa Concordia passenger liner, which sank off the coast of Tuscany on Saturday night, almost caused the death of several thousand tourists from all over the world due to technical problems on the ship, as well as uncoordinated actions of the crew.

A few hours before leaving the port, a malfunction in the electrical system was recorded on the liner, but the captain of the ship decided not to delay the departure of the Costa Concordia and not to conduct additional checks.
The ship came too close to the shore, the underwater relief of this area is a stone ridge of reefs.
One of the main causes of the disaster is the inattention of the command or the error of navigation instruments, due to which giant liner ran into a reef and got a hole - as a result, the board immediately began to take on water and roll.

The ship's crew also failed to organize an urgent evacuation. According to eyewitnesses, Costa Concordia workers delayed the launching of lifeboats. Later, due to a strong roll, it was no longer possible to place people in the boat.
Panic began among the passengers: seeing that it was almost impossible to get into the boats, many in fright began to jump into the icy water, because they were afraid to go to the bottom with the ship.
At that moment, when the ship received a hole, the passengers had just begun their dinner.
- Suddenly we heard a noise, and the ship seemed to be dragged somewhere. The lights went out, dishes and tables began to fall. There was a terrible panic, - says the Italian Luciano Castro.

People in horror themselves got out of the sinking ship, no signals for action were received from the crew of the ship. People rushed in all directions.

- Have you watched Titanic? That's exactly what happened to us, - says 31-year-old Valerie Ananias from Los Angeles. When the ship tilted, she, along with her parents and sister, had to crawl up the corridors between the cabins.
- We crawled in the dark, only the strobe on the life jacket blinked, - recalls Valerie's mother, - We heard the dishes breaking and people being thrown against the walls.
Mara Parmigiani, an escaping church minister from Germany, was given a ticket to the cruise by her husband. The woman set sail for the first time in her life and almost died on the first night on the ship. It was a miracle to be saved. Documents, personal belongings and money were flooded under water.
- The crew only told us to stay in our seats and do nothing. We were told that nothing threatens our lives,” the victim says.

After some time, people were instructed to put on life jackets and move to the rafts. However, the passengers were blocked on the liner - it rolled over on its side, making it impossible for people to approach the boats.
- If it weren't for the boat passing by, which drove up to help, I think we would most likely have died, - says Mara Parmigiani.

Those passengers who did not have enough life jackets and places in the boats jumped overboard into the icy water in desperation.
One of the dead was a 65-year-old man. He had a heart failure.

Local barges that received a rescue signal, as well as helicopters of search services, came to the aid of the victims. Many were picked directly from the open sea.
At the same time, no one counted those rescued ashore. All figures given to the authorities were approximate.

At the time of the disaster, 4240 people were on board, of which 1032 were crew members. Tourists who cruised mediterranean sea, were from Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain and Russia. In total - 3208 people.
Eight people are listed as dead, about 67 were injured, the search for victims continues. Rescuers are looking for at least 70 more people.
108 citizens of the Russian Federation who were on board were rescued. According to the information of the Russian embassy in Rome, nothing threatens their lives.
The names of 102 Russians have been established, Irina Tyurina, spokeswoman for the Russian Union of Tourism Industry, said. Most of them have already been placed in the Rome Hilton hotel, the rest are being taken there. Tourists were left without money, passports, luggage and will soon be without communication: Cell phones gradually dissipate.
Operators send to the Russian consulate copies of documents of vacationers, according to which the Russians will be returned home. Among the personnel of the liner were Russian-speaking. Whether they were citizens of Russia, it turns out.

Information about the liner:

Costa Concordia- the Concordia class cruise ship was built in 2005 at the Fincantieri Sestri Ponente shipyard in Italy and since 2006 has sailed under the Italian flag between the ports of the Mediterranean Sea. The twin ships are Carnival Splendour, Costa Pacifica, Costa Favolosa, Costa Fascinosa and Costa Serena.

The length of the vessel is 290 meters, the number of passengers: 3,700, crew: 1,100 people.
The ship has 14 passenger decks, 1500 cabins, a three-level theatre, a shopping gallery, 13 bars, cafes, 5 restaurants, 4 swimming pools, a beauty salon, a fitness center, Turkish baths and sauna.

An Italian company was wrecked off the coast of Italy. Although what happened did not biggest disaster at sea in terms of the number of victims, but the very fact that the new ship, a multi-deck liner equipped with everything necessary equipment, sank in a matter of hours near the shore, it became with a strong blow in the cruise industry. But the saddest thing was that what happened was not the result of a combination of circumstances or influence adverse factors, but was caused solely by the human factor.

The Costa Concordia liner was built at the Italian Fincantieri shipyard in Genoa. The laying of the ship took place on January 19, 2004, and the ship went on its maiden voyage on July 14, 2006. The ship was built by order of Costa Crociere (Costa Cruises), which is part of the cruise corporation Carnival Corporation & plc.

The liner had 17 decks. The passenger capacity of the ship was 3780 people, the crew was 1100 people. The liner belonged to the Concordia class and the ships of the same type were Costa Serena (2007), Carnival Splendor (2008), Costa Pacifica (2009), Costa Favolosa (2011), Costa Fascinosa (2012). Differences of ships of this class from others in the design of the ship, extended wellness area and spa area.

On the evening of January 13, the Costa Concordia left Civitavecchia (a port located near Rome) on a Mediterranean cruise bound for Savona. At the time of the crash that occurred in the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Giglio, off the coast Italian region Tuscany, there were 4252 people on board the liner: 3229 passengers and 1023 crew members.

The crew members, led by Captain Francesco Schettino, did not immediately inform the passengers of what had happened. Panic broke out on board. The evacuation of people from the liner continued throughout the night. It was attended by Coast Guard vessels and lifeboats and a helicopter was also involved. The rescue of people was complicated by the fact that many were blocked in the cabins of the liner, and several people fell overboard when the ship ran aground. As a result of the tragedy, 32 people died. On January 14, the ship almost completely sank.

The investigation of the disaster did not take long, but its results shocked no less than the death of a cruise ship. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the infinity of the universe": this expression of Einstein best describes what happened.

Responsibility for the sinking of the ship was assigned to the ex-captain of Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino, who was one of the first to leave the sinking ship. During the judicial investigation, he admitted that the cause of the crash was the unauthorized deviation of the ship from the course. As the reasons why he allowed the route change, he.

“I approached Giglio in order to please the crew member, Antonello Tievoli, who hails from the island. And also to welcome the former captain of the Costa Concordia, Mario Palombo, also a native of these places,” said Schettino.

In 2013-2014, the ship was lifted, after which it was delivered in a floating dock to Genoa for subsequent disposal.

In the autumn of 2014, the authorities of the Italian region of Tuscany, off the coast of which the Costa Concordia liner crashed, stated that the region had suffered serious damage and estimated it at a sum. And to the remains of the ship's hull, located in the port of Genoa, were. At the same time, the cost of the rescue operation, as well as the lifting and towing of the ship, cost more than €1.2 billion.

By the fall of 2016, Costa Concordia was completely scrapped.

And two years ago, in February 2015, an end was put to the fate of Francesco Schettino. And although the prosecutor's office, which offered to sentence the ex-captain of Costa Concordia to 2697 years, softened the requirements to a quarter of a century in prison, as a result, the ex-captain of Costa Concordia received only

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

The final liquidation of the consequences of the crash will consist of 10 stages and will require several years.

First, let's tell you about how the cruise ship crashed. liner Costa Concordia.

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

According to the captain, the cruise liner ran into rocks that were not indicated on the navigation chart. 32 people died, two are missing.

People waiting to be evacuated from a sinking ship, January 14, 2012. Some of them are now dead. (Photo by AP Photo | Courtesy a tourist aboard the ship):

Later, the Costa Concordia sank almost completely into the Mediterranean Sea. January 24, 2012. (Photo by AP Photo | Italian Navy GOS):

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.

The prosecutor's office claimed that it was the actions of the captain with the corresponding name Francesco Schettino that led to the wreck of the ship, and also accuses him of fleeing the ship long before the end of the evacuation, leaving his passengers behind. (Photo by Reuters | Enzo Russo | ANSA):

Let's compare the Titanic and the Costa Concordia according to technical characteristics:

Rescuers at the ship, January 19, 2012. To get into some compartments, it was necessary to install explosive charges on the ship's hull, which made the necessary holes. (Photo by Gregorio Borgia | Reuters):

By the way, among the maritime disasters that occurred in peacetime, the Titanic ranks third in terms of the number of victims - 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.

Chairs recovered from the Costa Concordia, (AP Photo | Pier Paolo Cito):

The Costa Concordia had 1,500 cabins, the world's largest maritime wellness center, four swimming pools, five spas, five restaurants, 13 bars, a cinema, a disco and an internet cafe. Let's look inside the sunken cruise ship, January 19, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Centro subacquei dei Carabinieri):

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. Panic reigned.

Scuba divers inspect the interior of the wreck of the Costa Concordia on January 24, 2012. (AP Photo | Italian Navy)

This is how the Costa Concordia cruise ship remained off the coast of Tuscany in Italy on February 11, 2012. (Photo by Reuters | Giampiero Sposito):

In this disaster, 32 people died, two more were not found. Their names are engraved on the memorial plaque. Italy, January 13, 2013. (Photo by AP Photo | Gregorio Borgia):

The specialists were able to start pumping out diesel fuel from the tanks of the vessel only a month later: both because of the search for people, and because of weather conditions. And although a large-scale ecological catastrophe was avoided, the damage protected area Italy was nevertheless inflicted. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte | AFP | Getty Images):

The complete liquidation of the consequences of the crash will consist of 10 stages and will require several years. (Photo by AP Photo | Pier Paolo Cito):

How the cruise ship Costa Concordia was raised

The next stage in the aftermath of the crash was the recovery of the cruise ship Costa Concordia.

View near the island of Giglio off the coast of Tuscany in Italy, September 16, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Tony Gentile):

Here, at the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, work is being completed on the installation of equipment before bringing the ship into a vertical position. This operation is truly unique. Previously, engineers had never had to work with such large ships.

The purpose of this operation was to remove the ship from the rocks, lift it up and put it upright with the help of an underwater platform and cranes. Containers on the sides (below in the photo) will allow the entire structure to remain on the surface. (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):

The largest and most expensive maritime rescue operation in history is worth about 250 million euros, and the damage to the owners amounted to 1.5 billion euros. Italy, August 26, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Alessandro Bianchi):

The main danger of this operation was that during the first maneuvers, the ship's hull, which had serious damage, could break. (Photo by AP Photo | Gregorio Borgia):

After raising the sunken rescuers, the restaurant and the deck on the starboard side are most interested in - most likely, they will try to find the bodies of two missing people there - waiter Kevin Rebello and passenger Maria Grazia Trecariki.

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.

The goal of the operation was to achieve zero roll, and this goal has been achieved. (Photo by Vicenzo Pinto | AFP | Getty Images):

600 days on its side on the reefs turned out to be fatal for the Costa Concordia cruise liner, the hull is hopelessly deformed, but now there are no inaccessible zones on it. September 19, 2013. (Photo by Vicenzo Pinto | AFP | Getty Images):

Costa Concordia in an upright position, September 17, 2013. The mangled side of the ship. (Photo by Vicenzo Pinto | AFP | Getty Images):

Off the coast of the island of Giglio, a ship anchored on a platform that will help it survive the winter storm season will remain idle until at least the end of next spring. Then Costa Concordia will be towed to one of the nearest ports for further disposal. (Photo by Vicenzo Pinto | AFP | Getty Images):

The starboard side was severely damaged. September 17, 2013. (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):

The ship Costa Concordia, raised from the day, on September 17, 2013. The mangled right side is visible in the photo. See also: (Photo by Andreas Solaro | AFP | Getty Images):

In one second, a cruise can turn from a fantastic idyll into a nightmarish ordeal. Since 1980, 16 cruise liners have sunk in the world, since 1973 - 99 have run aground, since 1990 there have been fires on 79 ships, and various other accidents on 73. Since 2000, there have been more than 100 accidents, after which the ship was left to drift on the high seas, without power, listing, almost capsizing, and many other accidents that posed a risk to the lives of passengers. Here are the worst cruise ship disasters of the past 100 years.

1. For 100 years now, on April 14, 1912, the luxury liner Titanic sank off the coast. Nova Scotia, during its first flight. Unsinkable Titanic went to sea on April 10 and 4 days later met with his death in the form of an iceberg, killing 1513 passengers and crew members. But although negligence and pride led to disaster, you should not blame the captain for everything and cruise company. In recent astrological studies, it was found that in 1912 the Moon approached the Earth at a record close distance in 1400 years, which led to increased currents, which brought a large number of icebergs.

2. During a cruise on the St. Lawrence River, a Canadian passenger liner The Irish Empress collided with the Norwegian coal carrier Storstad and sank 14 minutes later at a depth of more than 40 meters. This disaster claimed 1,012 lives and was the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history.

3. The Laconia left Southampton on December 19, 1963 for an 11-day Christmas cruise on Canary Islands and took on board 1022 people. On December 22, the steward saw smoke coming from under the door of the hair salon. The cabin was completely engulfed in flames, and the fire immediately spread into the corridor to the common cabins. The steward tried to put out the fire with fire extinguishers, but the fire spread too quickly. 128 people died.

4. Security service before Italian ship"Achille Lauro" October 10, 1985 in the harbor of the port of Said, after the Egyptian authorities forbade him to go to the Israeli port of Ashdod. On October 7, 1985, four Palestinian Liberation Front terrorists led by Yusuf Majid al-Mulki and Abu Abbas hijacked a ship with 450 passengers. The terrorists killed one hostage - 69-year-old American Jew Leon Klinghoffer, an invalid, chained to a wheelchair. He was shot and thrown overboard in front of his wife Marilyn.

5. Tugs move the damaged ocean liner"Queen Elizabeth 2" in drydock in Boston on August 12, 1992, after the ship ran aground during a cruise. No harm done.

6. The bow visor of the ferry "Estonia" is raised from the bottom of the sea near the island of Ute in the Baltic Sea. The ship sank on the night of 27/28 September 1994, killing 852 of the 989 passengers and crew on board.

7. Aerial view of the Italian cruise ship "Achille Lauro" during a fire in the Indian Ocean. The Achille Lauro had already been captured by terrorists ten years earlier. Now, 30 miles east of the Horn of Africa, a fire has broken out on a ship, resulting in the death of 2 people.

8. Cruise ship "Norwegian Dream" at anchor in the south-east of England, after a collision with the Panamanian cargo ship "Ever Decent" on August 24, 1999. There were 2,400 people on the liner, of which only three received injuries of varying severity.

9. Rescue helicopter over the cruise ship "Seabreeze" in distress on December 17, 2000, 320 kilometers off the coast of Virginia. The Coast Guard managed to evacuate all 34 crew members before the relentless waves Atlantic Ocean dragged a 200-meter vessel to the bottom.

10. Cruise liner "Aurora" in the port of Southampton, England On November 8, 2003, all 500 passengers had an acute indigestion. Greece refused to help, and when the ship arrived in Gibraltar, Spain closed its borders until the ship left.

11. Cruise liner "Sea Diamond" during the evacuation of passengers near the island of Santorini, Greece, April 5, 2007. The Greek Coast Guard conducted a large-scale operation to evacuate 1,200 passengers of the ship after it ran aground and then sank.

12. Life rafts from the Canadian cruise ship "Explorer", which sank after colliding with an iceberg in Antarctic waters on November 23, 2007. 100 passengers and 54 crew members were rescued.

13. The cruise ship "Ecstasy" in the port of Miami on July 21, 2008. 60 people were injured as a result of a fire that formed in the ship's laundry room on July 20. The flames were extinguished and no evacuation was required.

14. Workers begin pumping diesel fuel from the ship "Costa Concordia" near the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea on January 24, 2012. More than 4,000 people were on board at the time of the crash, of which 25 are now officially considered dead.

15. The Costa Allegra is being towed through a pirate-infested area. Indian Ocean after a February 27 fire destroyed the air conditioning system, power supply and damaged engines. There were over 1,000 people on board.

The Costa Concordia is a sea cruise liner owned by the Costa Grocere company headquartered in Genoa. Made cruise voyages in the Mediterranean. Crashed near the island of Giglio off the Italian coast on January 13, 2012. The cause of the disaster was a collision with a reef. As a result, the ship received a hole and sank. In this case, 32 people died. The rest of the passengers and crew members escaped. The total damage from the tragedy amounted to 1.5 billion euros.

Timeline of the sinking of the Costa Concordia

The liner departed from the berth in the port of Civitavecchia on January 13, 2012 at 18:57. It was a cruise called "The Smell of Citrus" in the Mediterranean. There were 4229 people on board the ship, including 3216 passengers and 1013 crew members. In accordance with the route, the ship was supposed to call at the following ports: Savona, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cagliari, Palermo and return to Civitavecchia.

Out on the open sea, the liner reached a speed of 16 knots. At 2104 hours, on the orders of Captain Francesco Schettino, the ship deviated from its usual course, reduced speed to 15.5 knots and headed for the island of Giglio. There, in the village of Giglio Porto, he lived former captain ship, and Schettino decided to greet him, that is, to pay tribute.

The acting captain did this repeatedly, and everything worked out. But in this case, the Costa Concordia approached the shore a little closer than before. It turned out to be only 160 meters to the rocks, and the captain ordered the helmsman to take to the right. But he misunderstood the order and turned the steering wheel to the left. As a result, at 21:45, the liner, at a speed of 15.8 knots, ran into one of the smallest reefs, which was 96 meters from the shore. The depth in this place was 8 meters.

Map with the route of the "Costa Concordia" in the Mediterranean Sea (the place of the tragedy is indicated by a red circle)

As a result, the ship received a hole on the left side of the hull 72 meters long. She hit compartments 4 to 8. In this place were the main electric engines and a diesel generator. A few seconds after the impact, they failed. Compartments 4, 5, 6, 7 were flooded within a short period of time. Pumps and electrical panels were also submerged. Compartment 8 was partially flooded.

Already at 21:49 it became clear that the ship was sinking. But the captain and his assistants decided to save the liner on their own. At 9:54 p.m., the passengers, who were alarmed by the lack of electricity, were told that nothing terrible had happened - just temporary problems with electrical generators. The same information was repeated at 22:05.

At 22:17, the captain reported to the coast guard that 2 compartments were flooded on the ship, but the ship was still buoyant. At 22:24, the liner began to tilt to starboard, although the hole was on the port side. At 22:26, the engineering service informed the captain that the entire engine compartment and adjacent rooms were flooded with water. At the same time, the ignorant passengers began to worry. But it was only at 10:36 p.m. that the passengers were told that the ship emergency situation. Everyone needs to remain calm and unquestioningly comply with the requirements of the crew.

At 2243 hours the command was given to put on life jackets, and at 2254 hours Captain Francesco Schettino ordered the ship to be abandoned. The latter continued to roll to the right side until it lay down on the bottom. Thus, for more than an hour after the crash, passengers were kept in complete ignorance, and people did not know what to do.

The critical situation was reported to the coastal services, and they sent a helicopter and 2 tugboats to the ship in distress. The coast guard, fire brigade, carabinieri, tax police, state police, aeronautics, that is, all those who had a sufficient staff of people and floating equipment, joined in the rescue.

One of the cartoons that appeared a lot after the shipwreck. The captain sits in an inflatable boat and shouts into a bullhorn: "I repeat, women and children first!"

The team lowered anchors into the water to somehow fix the sinking ship, and a large-scale rescue operation began. People removed from the board were taken to the local church. But a large number of rescued created a critical situation on the island, as there were not enough medical supplies.

After midnight, the Costa Concordia turned its hull almost 90 degrees. Those who remained on board began to jump into the sea. Rescuers, sitting in boats, picked up people right in the water. And at this time, the people remaining on the ship began to die. director died hotel services Lorenzo Barabbas. He slipped on the flooded aft deck, fell into the water and choked. Four passengers died in the elevator shafts. Another 9 passengers and 4 crew members drowned by falling into the water. They were sucked in by a whirlwind of water that arose at the moment when the ship finally lay down on the starboard side.

At 2:30 a.m., there were about 200 more people on board. They were rescued by helicopters and boats. At 4:20 a.m., there were about 30 people on the ship. Fully evacuation was completed at 4 hours 46 minutes, and the rescuers began to leave the scene of the tragedy. A total of 32 people died and 110 were injured of varying severity. A total of 3,190 passengers and 1,007 crew members were rescued. 3 dead were immediately identified - 2 passengers and 1 crew member.

The search for the missing took a long period of time. They were searched for by divers. At 3 pm on January 17, the bodies of 3 men and 1 woman were found. And on January 21, they found a female body in the stern of the ship. The body of another woman, wearing a life jacket, was found on January 22 at the stern. After that, more bodies were found, and the last to be found was an Indian citizen on November 3, 2014.

Environmental impact

The Costa Concordia had 2,400 tons of fuel oil. But, fortunately, the leak was small. Fuel began to be downloaded on January 24, 2012, and on March 24 this work was completed. They lasted longer than planned due to unfavorable weather conditions. In addition, the danger was lubricating oils, nitrogen, acetylene, liquid enamel, sodium hypochlorite. All these harmful components were collected.

Captain of the Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino and the police

Punishment of the guilty

On February 11, 2015, the court sentenced Captain Francesco Schettino to 16 years in prison, followed by a 5-year ban on any maritime activity. Heavy fines were imposed on the company that owned the ship. In compensation to passengers alone, Costa Grocere paid 85 million euros.

The sunken "Costa Concordia" has become a familiar sight for vacationers

Climbing the Costa Concordia

"Costa Concordia" was not just big, but huge ship. It was one of the ten largest cruise ships in the world. It had 15 decks, 14 elevators, 1450 cabins, 5 restaurants, 4 swimming pools. After flooding, the current moved it to the underwater plain, and the ship's hull disappeared under the water even more. The ship was lifted by the American company Titan Salvage and the Italian Misoperi. Preparatory work began on May 29, 2012. In April 2013, the first 2 caissons were installed on the left side. Then their number increased to 30, 15 on each side.

In September 2013, the ship's straightening operation began. When it was straightened, they found the remains of 2 missing people. The Costa Concordia finally left the accident site on July 23, 2014. The ship was transported to Genoa, that is, a distance of 200 nautical miles. The journey there took 4 days. average speed 2.5 miles per hour. On Sunday, July 27, at dawn, the ship arrived in Genoa. Demolition began on May 12, 2015. Full disposal of the vessel should take 22 months.

Raised for transportation "Costa Concordia"

Mystical component

A diver died while working on the sunken ship on February 1, 2014. He became the 33rd victim associated with the ill-fated ship. And 100 years before the tragedy in 1912, the same huge liner called the Titanic. It is noteworthy that the 12th year in all centuries was characterized by major maritime disasters. I wonder if a maritime-related tragedy will happen in 2112?