The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. "Costa Concordia" (Costa Concordia) - cruise ship

On the night of January 14, 2012 in the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Giglio, off the coast Italian region Tuscany. More than 4.2 thousand passengers and crew members were on board the ship. The crash killed 32 people and injured more than 100.

A giant liner with a length of 290 meters with 17 decks, which housed 1.5 thousand cabins, a two-level fitness area with an area of more than two thousand square meters, concert hall, 4D cinema, art Gallery and a small library, as well as a casino, boutiques, restaurants and bars, left on January 13, 2012 from the port of Civitavecchia (Civitavecchia) near Rome on a cruise on mediterranean sea and headed for Savona. A few hours after departure, when passengers were having dinner in restaurants, Costa Concordia ran into a rocky ledge, as a result of which he received a hole on the left side, the length of which was about 70 meters.

Gradually, the ship began to sink into the water. Then the liner is a kilometer north of the scene.

Crew members led by Captain Francesco Schettino told the passengers about 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. Saving people by the fact that many were blocked in the cabins of the liner, and several people fell overboard when the ship ran aground.

There were 111 Russian citizens on the liner. Among the surviving passengers of the ship were 450 French citizens.
Initially, it was reported that three people died as a result of the crash of the liner, but this figure increased every day. Search progress rescue operation due to worsening weather conditions, ship movements and an increase in danger to rescuers. In April 2012, 30 people were officially killed, and two more - an Italian woman and an Indian citizen - were reported missing. The remains of passenger Maria Grazia Trecarica were found inside the ship. The body of another missing person, steward Russell Rebello, an Indian citizen, was found in one of the Costa Concordia cabins only.

Since Costa wreck Concordia originated from its fuel on the coast of Giulio Island, located near the accident site. A number of species of rare fish and marine animals live in the region of this island. In March 2012, divers from the sunken Italian liner.

According to media reports, they acted on the sunken liner Costa Concordia, which plundered the flooded part of the ship. The first item stolen from the Costa Concordia was a ship's bell. Rynda, who weighed several tens of kilograms, was abducted by unknown people on March 15, 2012 from a depth of about eight meters. In addition, looters-scuba divers stole jewelry and watches that were left lying in the shop windows of the liner. Paintings, wall clocks and some furniture were also missing from the ship.

In the fall of 2013, the ship, which had lain on its side aground for more than a year, was installed vertically. A few months later in the bowels of his hull during underwater work.

In 2014, 19 special containers were attached to the liner, from which the water was then pumped out to raise the ship above sea level and level it. After the ship rose from under the water to 18 meters, the cables were unhooked from it, with the help of which they were kept near the shore. At the end of July 2014, the liner was towed to Genoa. The ship was towed. All this time, the liner was accompanied by a whole sea convoy, including, among other things, a French Navy boat and two helicopters.

After arriving at the port of Genoa, work began on dismantling the vessel. In May 2015, the Costa Concordia was towed to the area of the old port of Genoa, and five tugboats sent what was left of cruise ship, towards the fourth dock for final dismantling.

On Italian island Giglio in October 2014, a monument was erected dedicated to the memory of the victims of the disaster on January 13, 2012 and the courage local residents. The memorial "" was created by the architect Giampaolo Talani. The work was donated to the island by Neri from Livorno (Italy) and Smit from Rotterdam (Netherlands).

Immediately after the tragedy, the prosecutor's office Italian city Grosseto, who is investigating the circumstances of the sinking of the Costa Concordia, against the captain of the liner Francesco Schettino, charging him with manslaughter, shipwreck and leaving the ship in danger. Representatives of the shipowner company said that Schettino would deviate from the intended course. The captain gave the command to come as close as possible to the island of Giglio in order to please the chief steward of the ship, a native of those places.

After experts took readings from the black box of the liner, it became clear that the evacuation of passengers from a distressed cruise ship Costa Concordia has begun. The captain of the liner did not send a distress signal (the coast guard itself contacted the ship in distress), which delayed the start of the rescue operation, he is also in maneuvering, managing the current emergency and evacuating the ship. After the crash, Schettino left the sinking liner.

On January 17, 2012, the Italian court decided to place the captain of the liner Francesco Schettino under house arrest, but on July 5, 2012, he was released from house arrest, provided that he could not leave the city of Meta di Sorrento in the province of Naples, where his house is located.

For his part, Schettino decided to sue the shipowner Costa Crociere, which fired him in July 2012, demanding his reinstatement. The trial for his dismissal began in the Italian town of Torre Annunziana in the province of Naples. Schettino considered that he was dismissed unfairly, despite the fact that the reason for the dismissal was not only an internal disciplinary investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy, but also violations of it, witnessed by the passengers of the liner employment contract and the Code of Navigation, for example, drinking alcohol an hour before the tragedy.

In the summer of 2013, the Italian Ministry of Transport by Captain Francesco Schettino.

judgment over former captain Costa Concordia has begun. Initially, there were five other people in the dock in addition to Schettino: the senior assistant to the captain Ciro Ambrosio, the ship's officer Silvia Coronica, the helmsman Jacob Rusli Bean, the director of the onboard hotel Manrico Giampedroni and the coordinator of the crisis center of the shipowner Costa Crociere Roberto Ferrarini. However, as part of the preliminary hearings, they entered into an agreement with the investigation to admit their guilt in exchange for a reduced sentence.

A court in Italy found five employees of Costa Crociere, the owner of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, of manslaughter. Ferrarini was sentenced to two years and ten months, Giampedroni received two and a half years, the other defendants, except Schettino, from a year and eight months to a year and 11 months in prison.

The ship operator Costa Crociere was worth a million euros for the mistakes and violations of the rules made by the company's employees during the accident.

On February 11, 2015, the court of first instance of the Italian city of Grosseto Francesco Schettino to 16 years and one month in prison. The ex-captain was also banned for life from holding any public office, and he will not be able to work in his profession for five years. The verdict was confirmed on 31 May 2016 by the Florence Court of Appeal.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

In the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Giglio in 2012, on January 13, a terrible tragedy occurred - the disaster of a large cruise ship Costa Concordia. At that time there were 4200 people on it.

Ship "Costa Concordia"

The liner was built in the middle of summer 2006. This is one of the largest modern ships of the Costa Cruises company, which ranks first in Europe in terms of passenger (cruise) transportation. 114500 tons - its displacement, passenger capacity - up to 3780 people. The number of cabins on board is 1500.

Vessel dimensions: 290.2 m long, 35.5 m wide. A powerful electric generator is capable of providing energy to an entire city with a population of 50,000. There are four swimming pools, 5 restaurants, 5 spas, 13 bars, a disco, a cinema and an Internet cafe on board.

crash

On January 13, a ship from the port of Civitavecchia headed for Savona. It was an ordinary cruise route - "7 Nights of the Winter Mediterranean". This last cruise planned to call at several ports Italian cities and also to Barcelona and Marseille.

At 10 pm in the area of the island of Giglio, when most of the passengers were having dinner at a restaurant, the ship ran into a huge stone reef. He received a large hole (length - 53 m, width up to 7.3 m) and began to sink. Compartments from the third to the eighth were flooded (5 in total). The eighth house was the engine room. In this regard, control over engines and electronic equipment was lost.

The ship ran aground just 150 meters from locality- the village of Giglio Porto. This is how the Costa Concordia sank.

The ship was designed to be unsinkable if only two compartments were damaged. By the morning of January 14, the ship sank and, having touched the bottom, lay on the starboard side.

In total, at the time of the disaster, there were 3,216 passengers (from 62 countries) and 1,023 crew members on the ship. Among them were Russians (108 people) and Ukrainians (45 citizens). None of them were hurt. Only of the three Russians (crew members) after the disaster, two ended up in the hospital. On board were three more citizens from Kazakhstan and Belarus.

Rescue operations, assistance of local residents

According to the testimonies of numerous witnesses (there are confirmations on video recordings), the crew of the Costa Concordia ship failed the rescue operation. The captain of the Schettino liner himself, instead of giving the necessary distress signal and starting the evacuation, announced to the passengers only 15 minutes after the accident that the ship had only minor problems with the generator (at that time there were indeed problems with energy).

Only when closer to 11 o'clock the ship's list increased greatly (30 degrees), beeps sounded, which meant that the passengers should leave the ship. Of course, panic began, a stampede.

The captain himself (according to the investigation) was one of the first to leave the ship, without even sending any signal about this terrible disaster. Thanks to the actions of the coast guard, which contacted the ship, a rescue operation began late at night.

Passengers who did not have time to get into the boats were lifted from the side rails (they clung to them) by helicopters. Four boats did not have time to launch. There was a very strong roll. Some passengers were able to swim to shore on their own.

Subsequently, during the search for missing people, naval sailors began to punch holes in the walls of the ship with explosions in order to break through to the remaining air bags, which could contain survivors.

Search and rescue operations had to be stopped several times due to adverse weather conditions and ship movements.

At the beginning of February 2012, the search was announced to be stopped, but only in the flooded parts of the ship, due to the great risk to scuba divers. And searches on the seabed (within 18 sq. km), as well as in the remaining not flooded premises of the vessel, continued.

The inhabitants of the island, in turn, helped the victims by placing them in a school, local church and other buildings. Provided them medical care brought food, warm clothes.

Victims, dead and injured

According to daily reports on January 14, it was known about the death of three people.
On January 15, the bodies of two more dead passengers(Italian and Spanish).

By January 16, there were already 6 dead. And 16 people at that time were listed as missing. The next day, the list of missing people grew to 29 people (including 4 crew members). The confusion in the figures of the summary was explained by the fact that most those saved were foreigners who did not speak Italian.

By the end of March 2012, a total of 30 bodies had been found. Two more people were still missing. The remains of the most recent missing person were discovered during search operations only in November 2013.

Invasion of tourists

"Costa Concordia" has increased the flow of tourists to the scene of the tragedy.

More than six months after the disaster tiny island filled with a huge number of tourists. In nearby San Stefano, 15 kilometers from the site of the tragedy, tour operators were doing business selling tickets for 10 euros. Tourists got the opportunity to look at the half-sank liner from a special ferry, which passed just a few meters from the Concordia.

The mayor of the village of Giglio, Sergio Ortelli, noted that in fact there was a significant increase in the number of tourists. They came to see the giant ship that fell on its side and take pictures of it as a keepsake.

Investigative work on the incident, results

The investigation found that the ship approached much closer (10 times) to the shore than it was planned by the route, and at a higher speed.

The entire campaign to eliminate the consequences of the shipwreck lasted more than two years. The damage estimated by the authorities of the island of Giglio amounted to 125-189 million euros.

The main defendant is the captain of the wrecked liner Francesco Schettino. He was found guilty of unintentional murder of people (32 people) and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Shipping experts are perplexed and wonder how such a modern and well-equipped vessel as the Costa Concordia could run aground in such well-studied sea areas.

The experts had two questions. Namely, how it happened that the Costa Concordia deviated from the planned route (by 3-4 nautical miles) and for what reason she capsized so soon.

This ship has been cruising this route 52 times per year.
The main assumptions about the causes of what happened are the human factor and a technical failure or a combination of these two factors.

It is also possible that the ship's crew simply strayed off course. Therefore, the liner "Costa Concordia" was dangerously close to the coast.

There were also versions that there were malfunctions in the ship's navigation equipment.
Power outages could also occur on board.

But the most important thing is that there was a crash in the Mediterranean Sea huge liner"Costa Concordia", learned in the world only a day after the incident. The greatest indignation and bewilderment was caused by the behavior of the captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, and the crew subordinate to him.

According to the testimonies of the passengers, some members of the crew did not even let people into the lifeboats at first, but eventually climbed into them themselves. And the captain escaped from the sinking ship, leaving all the passengers behind.

Costa Concordia now

The operation to raise the ship was carried out in several stages. These works are the most expensive in the history of such operations, their cost is about 250 million euros. For the owners of the vessel, the damage amounted to approximately 1.5 billion euros. In August 2013, a unique operation began. It took less than a day. The ship was safely keeled.

The goal of the whole operation was, first of all, to achieve a minimum roll (zero). This has been successfully achieved. For 600 days on the reefs, the hull of the liner was badly damaged. However, the rise of the Costa Concordia ended successfully.

At the end of July 2014, work began on towing the ship to the port of Genoa. Three days later, the ship was brought to the intended port. Work on dismantling the hull will take almost 2 years.

On the night of January 13-14, 2012, the giant cruise ship Costa Concordia crashed in the Mediterranean Sea near the Italian island of Giglio in Tuscany. There were 4,200 people on board. For some, the incident was reminiscent of the famous Titanic, which sank almost exactly 100 years earlier, on the night of April 14-15, 1912.

The captain of the cruise ship said that the liner hit rocks that were not marked on the navigation chart, as a result of which he received a hole. Unfortunately, not everyone managed to escape that night, several people died.

Surprisingly, on modern Titanic There were also not enough boats for all the passengers. In addition, the crew could not launch them correctly so that they did not fall upside down or at an angle, which quickly took on water. Some people who were unable to wait for rescue decided to take matters into their own hands and swim to the shore.

So there was a crash of one of the 10 largest cruise ships in the world, which gradually went deeper and deeper into the water until it sank to the very bottom. Only now he lay there for a short time, since it was decided to pull the 300-meter giant ashore.

Photographer from Germany Jonathan Danko Kielkowski was able to get inside the ship returned from the depths of the sea and take these amazing, rare pictures for us.

When the liner emerged from the water, it looked like this.

All the numerous premises of the Costa Concordia were in complete ruin, as if the ship had been at the bottom for decades.

Costa Concordia is the largest wreck in history.

The construction of the ship, which received serial number 6122, was carried out by the Italian shipyard Fincantieri for three years, and on September 2, 2005, it was launched for the first time. As it should be according to tradition, the "newborn" ship was going to be "christened" by breaking a bottle of champagne on board. However, the bottle did not break, which is a very bad omen for a ship.

Experts investigating the wreck of the liner wondered why the ship decided to deviate from the route it usually followed and so dangerously approached the shore.

Explaining this fact, the captain of the liner, Francesco Schettino, admitted that on the day of the tragedy he went ashore to greet the former captain, who lived on Giglio.

The territory of the cruise ship was huge. On 15 decks there were 4 pools, 1450 cabins, 5 restaurants, a casino, a 2000 square meter fitness center and other entertainment.

The total amount of damage is estimated at 1.5 billion euros.

To raise the Costa Concordia, the shipowner also had to pay a considerable amount, which, according to media reports, should have been at least 600 million euros.

One of the cabins of the ship raised from the seabed.

Destroyed concert hall.

There is no trace of the former luxury.

On the night of January 14, 2012 in the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Giglio, off the coast of the Italian region of Tuscany. More than 4.2 thousand passengers and crew members were on board the vessel. The crash killed 32 people and injured more than 100.

A giant liner 290 meters long with 17 decks, which housed 1.5 thousand cabins, a two-level fitness area with an area of more than two thousand square meters, a concert hall, a 4D cinema, an art gallery and a small library, as well as casinos, boutiques, restaurants and bars , left the port of Civitavecchia (Civitavecchia) near Rome on January 13, 2012 on a Mediterranean cruise and headed for Savona. A few hours after departure, when passengers were having dinner in restaurants, Costa Concordia ran into a rocky ledge, as a result of which it received a hole on the left side, the length of which was about 70 meters.

Gradually, the ship began to sink into the water. Then the liner is a kilometer north of the scene.

Crew members led by Captain Francesco Schettino told the passengers about what had happened. Panic broke out on board.
The evacuation of people from the liner continued throughout the night. Coast guard vessels and lifeboats took part in it, and a helicopter was also involved. Saving people by the fact that many were blocked in the cabins of the liner, and several people fell overboard when the ship ran aground.

There were 111 Russian citizens on the liner. Among the surviving passengers of the ship were 450 French citizens.
Initially, it was reported that three people died as a result of the crash of the liner, but this figure increased every day. The course of the search and rescue operation due to deteriorating weather conditions, ship movements and an increase in danger to rescuers. In April 2012, 30 people were officially killed, and two more - an Italian woman and an Indian citizen - were reported missing. The remains of passenger Maria Grazia Trecarica were found inside the ship. The body of another missing person, steward Russell Rebello, an Indian citizen, was found in one of the Costa Concordia cabins only.

Since the crash of the Costa Concordia, it has fueled the coast of Giulio Island, located near the crash site. A number of species of rare fish and marine animals live in the region of this island. In March 2012, divers from the sunken Italian liner.

In the fall of 2013, the ship, which had lain on its side aground for more than a year, was installed vertically. A few months later in the bowels of his hull during underwater work.

After arriving at the port of Genoa, work began on dismantling the vessel. In May 2015, the Costa Concordia was towed to the area of the old port of Genoa, and five tugs sent what was left of the cruise ship towards the fourth dock for final dismantling.

On the Italian island of Giglio in October 2014, a monument was erected in memory of the victims of the disaster on January 13, 2012 and the courage of local residents. The memorial "" was created by the architect Giampaolo Talani. The work was donated to the island by Neri from Livorno (Italy) and Smit from Rotterdam (Netherlands).

Immediately after the tragedy, the prosecutor's office of the Italian city of Grosseto, investigating the circumstances of the crash of Costa Concordia, against the captain of the liner Francesco Schettino, charged him with unintentional murder, shipwreck and leaving the ship in danger. Representatives of the shipowner company said that Schettino would deviate from the intended course. The captain gave the command to come as close as possible to the island of Giglio in order to please the chief steward of the ship, a native of those places.

After specialists took readings from the black box of the liner, it became clear that the evacuation of passengers from the distressed cruise ship Costa Concordia had begun. The captain of the liner did not send a distress signal (the coast guard itself contacted the ship in distress), which delayed the start of the rescue operation, he is also in maneuvering, managing the current emergency and evacuating the ship. After the crash, Schettino left the sinking liner.

For his part, Schettino decided to sue the shipowner Costa Crociere, which fired him in July 2012, demanding his reinstatement. The trial for his dismissal began in the Italian town of Torre Annunziana in the province of Naples. Schettino considered that he was dismissed unfairly, despite the fact that the reason for the dismissal was not only an internal disciplinary investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy, but also the violations of the employment contract and the Code of Navigation witnessed by the passengers of the liner, for example, drinking alcohol an hour before the tragedy.

In the summer of 2013, the Italian Ministry of Transport by Captain Francesco Schettino.

The trial of the former captain of the Costa Concordia has begun. Initially, there were five other people in the dock in addition to Schettino: the senior assistant to the captain Ciro Ambrosio, the ship's officer Silvia Coronica, the helmsman Jacob Rusli Bean, the director of the onboard hotel Manrico Giampedroni and the coordinator of the crisis center of the shipowner Costa Crociere Roberto Ferrarini. However, as part of the preliminary hearings, they entered into an agreement with the investigation to admit their guilt in exchange for a reduced sentence.

The ship operator Costa Crociere was worth a million euros for the mistakes and violations of the rules made by the company's employees during the accident.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

The wreck of ships... Such an incident is always shrouded in a halo of secrets, myths and legends. The famous shipwrecks are the black pages of history, which can be read only by looking into sea depths. Sadly, majestic giant liners very often become victims of the raging waters of the seas and oceans.

The most famous shipwrecks became public knowledge. To date, there are many secret lists that name the most impressive ship disasters in the history of mankind. Below are just a few of those that have entered world history.

Ships that have been wrecked

For many, the first thing that comes to mind is a story that shocked the whole world with its tragedy. It eclipsed every other shipwreck. This is the story of the "Titanic" ... Although this story has grown over time with a lot of conjecture and conjecture, everyone is still interested in learning about what really happened. The crew were so blinded by the majesty of their ship and its superiority over other ships that for a time everyone became overconfident.

Possible causes of the tragedy

At that time, many said that a ship had finally been built that could not be sunk. But reality turned out to be unpredictable. One night, the ship was moving at full speed along its route, and only at the very last moment the sailors were able to notice the top of a huge ice block rising above the surface of the water. Urgent attempts were made to move the ship aside, but it was too late: the ship was wrecked. Almost at full speed, the Titanic hit an iceberg with its starboard side.

The ship breaks in half

Gradually, the lower tiers in the forward compartment of the ship begin to flood. Almost half of the vessel is filled cold water Atlantic Ocean. A counterweight is created on the ship, as a result of which it is half immersed in water. The body can not withstand the monstrous load and breaks in half. Both parts of the broken ship lose power and sink. Eyewitnesses of the tragedy recall that terrible day with trepidation, but still some facts remain in the shadows. For example, class discrimination passengers.

Could more have been saved?

Some witnesses claim that individual lifeboats were only half full of passengers. Only a few people sat in them, who set sail as soon as possible, in fear that the boat would overflow and sink. In the end, saved where fewer passengers than it could. However, do not forget that heroic deeds also took place that night. Many risked their lives to help others escape. Be that as it may, this disaster has become a symbol of arrogance.

complicated story

Another, no less tragic collision occurred with the steamer "Admiral Nakhimov". It became the big sensation of the twentieth century. The warm day of August began with the arrival of a cruise liner at the port. The city of Novorossiysk said goodbye to passengers who were soon to go on an exciting trip. Around the same time, a ship called "Pyotr Vasev" was planning to enter the port. The crews of both ships were warned about each other and had to act carefully, no one had any idea that the ships would soon crash.

Who is guilty and does it make sense to find out now?

As a result of short negotiations, it was decided to disperse on the right sides at the exit from the port. However, something went wrong, namely, it failed automatic system course placement. Technique is imperfect, this should never be forgotten. Shipwrecks are clear evidence of this. When it was noticed that the ship was moving at full speed directly towards the Admiral Nakhimov, the situation almost completely got out of control.

Dry cargo ship "Pyotr Vasev" crashed into passenger liner and made a hole eight by ten meters in size in its side. in eight minutes. Some of the circumstances under which the ship was wrecked raised questions among many. Why did a passenger ship sink to the bottom like a stone, if, according to the rules, it must have sufficient buoyancy to survive on the surface of the water for at least an hour after the crash? In addition, information was received that the captain had complied with the order of the port dispatcher and changed the route of the vessel. There will be many gaps and white spots in this story.

However, the most inconsolable fact is the death of almost half a thousand people. Perhaps the scale of the disaster would not have been so terrible if it had been possible to launch lifeboats. But what could be done in just eight minutes? It takes at least half an hour to organize the boarding of people in one boat. And this is under favorable conditions.

In the case when the crash of the ship "Nakhimov" took place, there was neither time nor factors allowing people to escape in boats. Time after the disaster, it becomes increasingly difficult to find out the true circumstances of the crash. Surely the true facts lie in the depths of the water, so it makes no sense to speculate, because time, like human lives, cannot be returned back.

These are just two stories, but they are not the only ones. The following list of the most famous shipwrecks will show that wrecks largest liners- far from uncommon.

SS America.
"Pioneer of the World"
"Mediterranean sky".
MB Captayannis.
BOS 400.
Fort Shevchenko.
"Evangelia".
"SS Maheno".
"Santa Maria".
"Dimitrios".
"Olympia".

The ships were built over the years, solemnly left their native ports against the wind and eventually sank, ran aground, leaving only fragments and piles of iron in memory of themselves.