The death of the concordia. Costa Concordia (Costa Concordia) - the last cruise of the liner in the Mediterranean Sea

On November 21, 1916, the Britannic, an Olympic-class ship, and the twin brother of the famous Titanic, sank.

White company star line”began production of Olympic-class liners in 1910. The first of the three twin brothers was the Olympic liner. It was considered the largest ship in the world and surpassed all competitors who previously held this title. The next in this class were Titanic and Britannic, which amazed with their luxury and size. However, the Olympic is the only one of the three liners that did not crash, unlike its "brothers".

We decided to recall the largest shipwrecks:

The Titanic was the second Olympic-class liner and was considered even more luxurious than its predecessor and the largest passenger liner in the world. In May 1911, it was launched for the first time. And on April 10, 1912, he went to his first and last flight. Famed as the safest and most unsinkable, the Titanic collided with an iceberg on April 14, 1912. More than 1,400 people died in this disaster. 712 people were saved. This was a real shock to the whole world.

2. Britannic

The Britannic was the third and last ship of the Olympic class. After the crash of the Titanic, the main goal of the creators of the new liner was to increase the level of safety. What did they achieve with new system davits.

The liner was launched on February 26, 1914, but with the imminent outbreak of the First World War, the Britannic was converted into a hospital ship. November 12, 1916 he went to the 6th voyage to the Mediterranean. November 21, the liner sailed between the island of Kea and mainland Greece where mines were laid by a German submarine. The ship was blown up on the bow from the starboard side. While the crew was trying to buy at least some time, an emergency evacuation began. 9 people died on board, and another 21 people died during the launch of the boats. Nevertheless, the rescue operation on the Britannica was considered one of the most successful in the history of navigation.

3. Lusitania

"Lusitania" - British passenger liner, first launched on June 7, 1906. The construction of the Lusitania and various costs were provided by the British government, on the condition that, in case of emergency, the liner would be converted into an armed cruiser. However, when the First World War began. True, the Lusitania did not fit as an armed cruiser, therefore it served as the main high-speed passenger ship. On May 7, 1915, while in the submarine war zone designated by the Kaiser government, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine. 1198 people died, no more than 700 were saved. After this disaster public opinion many countries were set against Germany.

4. "Andrea Doria"

"Andrea Doria" - Italian transatlantic liner, first launched on June 16, 1951. It was not like any of its predecessors previously built, and was particularly safe. That is why after the July 26, 1956 collision with the Stockholm liner off the coast of New York, not a single person was left on the sunken liner. This is the most successful rescue operation in history.

5. Doña Paz

Doña Paz - Filipino passenger ferry, built in 1963 in Japan. December 20, 1987 the ship went on its last voyage. Already in the evening of the same day, the ferry collided with the tanker "Vector". The number of victims is about 4375 people. This is the largest maritime disaster in peacetime.

6. Lancastria

Lancastria is an ocean passenger liner built in 1920. After the outbreak of the Second World War, it was used as a military vessel. During the evacuation of troops from Norway on June 17, while off the coast of France, 10 bombs dropped by enemy aircraft hit the Lancastria. On board were 4,500 soldiers and 200 crew members. Only about 700 people were saved.

Friday night the 13th luxurious a 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)

On January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia left the port of Civitavecchia for Savona. The last cruise called for a few Italian cities as well as Barcelona and Marseille. Late in the evening, near the Italian village of Giglio Porto on the island of Giglio (Tuscany region), the ship ran into a stone reef and, having received a huge hole, began to sink. The operation to rescue passengers began with a delay, because. no request for help was received from the Costa Concordia (Captain Francesco Schettino, instead of starting the evacuation and issuing a distress signal, announced 15 minutes after the collision that the ship had just a slight problem with the generator). The coast guard itself contacted the ship in distress, after which the evacuation of passengers and crew members to the shore began.

Divers inspect the sunken Costa Concordia. In mid-March 2012, information appeared in the media about the theft of the ship's bell, despite the protection of the area.

A lifeguard descends from a helicopter aboard the tumbled ship Costa Concordia. The photo was taken near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy on January 18, 2012.

Many took pictures against the backdrop of the sunken huge liner. Young people decided not only to act against his background, but also to wallow initially in the mud. They also picked up a very unusual music for the first wedding dance, asking for help from the wedding dance studio “You are with me”. A selection of musical compositions has become for them one of the best gifts. In addition, in the studio they took several lessons from a professional teacher with a high dance qualification. The newlyweds really wanted the main event in their lives to be remembered not only by them, but also by all those invited to this event.

A scuba diver inspects the ship's hull.

Firefighters, standing at the lighthouse, inspect the cruise liner.

Italian firefighters climb onto a cruise ship that wrecked on January 13, 2012 off the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea.

Firefighters work on the sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia.

Rescuers at the stranded ship. The photo was taken off the coast of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy.

The Italian Andra Faccioli, using a laser scanner, is conducting the necessary research on the ship Costa Concordia lying on its side. The liner, costing about $500 million, could carry more than 4,200 passengers and crew members.

The lifeguard climbs the Costa Condordia.

Firefighters work on the surviving side of the sunken cruise ship.

A soldier walks past a photo of a missing passenger on a ship that has run aground off the west coast of Italy.

Scuba divers pull out of the water a man who was a passenger of the Costa Concordia.

Divers are inspecting the interior of the liner.

A scuba diver makes his way through floating pieces of furniture inside the Costa Concordia ship.

Rescue operation off the coast Italian island Giglio.

The wreck of the liner at the bottom of the sea.

Costa Concordia at the bottom. The course of the search and rescue operation was suspended several times due to the deterioration of weather conditions, the movement of the vessel and the growing danger to rescuers.

A pile of chairs on the deck of a sunken cruise ship.

A diver inspects a submerged passenger ship.

A scuba diver at the anchor of a ship that has run aground.

Rescuers examine the sunken liner.

Photo of the Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the west coast of Italy.

View of the sunken ship from the shore.

The liner had 13 passenger decks, each of which was named after a locality. For example, in the hold - Holland, Sweden and Belgium, and in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe klotik (a rounded trim with protruding edges on the top of the mast or flagpole) - Poland.

At 10 pm CET, when most of the passengers were having dinner at a restaurant, the ship hit a rocky reef. As a result of hitting the ground along the port side below the waterline, the ship received a hole about 70 meters long and began to sink.

Rescuers inspect huge boulders protruding from the hull of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. The photo was taken the day after the crash.

The captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, admitted during the investigation that he decided to bring the ship closer to the coast of Giglio in order to greet the person living on the island. former captain ship. On the ill-fated evening, January 13, 2012, the command to turn was given to Schettino belatedly and the ship ran into a sandbank.

By the morning of January 14, 2012, the ship lay on the starboard side, touching the bottom.

The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia was 291 meters long and 38 meters wide.

At the time of the disaster, there were 3,216 passengers from 62 countries and 1,023 crew members on board.

A rescue operation was organized, most of the passengers and crew were brought ashore.

Italian investigators, having “talked” with the ship’s black box, found out that the ship approached the shore too close, and the captain started the evacuation too late, did not send a distress signal, which significantly delayed the start of the rescue operation. It was also established that Schettino was one of the first to leave the ship (almost a day before the end of the evacuation of all passengers).

The fate of foreigners was immediately taken up by native embassies and consulates. The Filipinos were taken away, a helicopter flew for the Japanese, three Czechs were immediately taken away from the scene.

But 42 citizens Russian Federation of the passengers of the Costa Concordia cruise liner, they spent a long time in a small Italian town without money, documents and clothes - everything was left on board the liner. Not a single representative of the Russian Embassy and travel company didn't take care of them.

Employees of the Russian Foreign Ministry offered people without money, documents and things to get to Barcelona on their own, where their cruise was supposed to end.

Rescuers at the crash site.

An Italian fire helicopter picks up passengers from the Costa Concordia.

According to eyewitnesses, the ship's crew was confused and could not organize an evacuation for a long time, panic and chaos reigned on board. The liner strongly deviated from the course, which is strictly prohibited, and the reef that Costa Concordia ran into is marked on all possible maps.

Divers inspect the semi-submerged ship.

Most of the passengers were taken to the island of Giglio itself. locals assisted wrecked, brought them food, drink, shared warm clothes, placing them in the local church and school.

Hi all! Vladimir Raichev is in touch, as you can hear me, reception-reception. I'm in a great mood, I'm on vacation, I devote my free time to the blog. Today I have prepared another top catastrophe for you. Maritime disasters Air crashes happen no less often, so our meeting today will be dedicated to them.

But first, imagine what a person who goes on a cruise experiences? Sea, sun, expensive liner. Have you already felt it for yourself? Agree that this is a real idyll.

All the disasters that are told about have turned cruises from a fantastic idyll into a real nightmare. Over the past 100 years, the world has become aware of many tragedies on the water, which will haunt the memory and consciousness of people for a long time to come. Like, for example, the crash of the Swedish warship Vasa.

The story of the Titanic is probably known to everyone. It was a luxury liner. It sank on its maiden voyage off the coast Nova Scotia. Then, as a result of a collision with an iceberg, more than 1,500 people died.

One of the most majestic ships never made it to its destination. For a long time it was believed that the reason for the death of the liner lies in the negligence of the crew and the captain, and even tighter in their pride. Today the situation has changed a little.

New research is being done. According to one of them, the cause of the crash was the strengthening of the current, which brought huge icebergs. According to scientists, at that time the Moon approached the Earth as close as possible in 1000 years, which contributed to a change in the course.

In general, I already wrote about the many reasons for the sinking of the Titanic in my article.

Disaster of the Empress of Ireland

This happened in 1914. In the history of Canada, a terrible tragedy at sea was the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. This liner sank as a result of a collision with a coal carrier. There was a collision on the St. Lawrence River. The crash happened in 14 minutes.

As a result of this disaster, the Empress sank to a depth of more than 40 meters. More than 1000 people died. Despite the number of victims, this story is unknown to most people. Everything happened so fast that most of the passengers did not even realize what had happened.

The story of the sinking of the Lusitania

During World War I, the tragedy of the Lusitania occurred in 1915. The sinking of the Lusitania is considered one of the most mysterious events associated with the history of the First World War.

The reason was the torpedoing by a German submarine. That was the first official version, which had many omissions and obvious inaccuracies. Many of the researchers on this issue say that ammunition was placed on board.

This is also confirmed by one of the passengers, a Canadian professor who was on board. After the torpedo was blown up, a second explosion was heard. It was explosive ammunition. For many, everything about the Lusitania has become a dirty story.

Tragedy of Laconia

The Laconia liner went on an 11-day Christmas cruise in December 1963. There were over 1,000 people on board. On December 22, a fire broke out on the ship. It started in the booth of a hairdressing salon.

Stuart, who noticed the smoke, was trying to put out the fire, which was spreading rapidly and dynamically. From the corridor, the fire spread to the common cabins. More than 120 people died because of this incident.

Disasters with ships and liners that happen in Lately, are less significant in terms of the number of victims. However, they also deserve our attention. Thanks to modern technical development, it is possible to avoid casualties and adverse consequences as much as possible.

For example, we can take the ship "Norwegian Dream", which collided with a cargo ship. It happened in 1999. The number of passengers who were on board reached 2400 thousand.

Only 3 people received minor injuries. The evacuation of passengers took place as soon as possible, which made it possible to avoid the appearance of victims.

One of the latest tragedies known to the whole world was the story of the Costa Concordia liner. There were approximately 4,200 people on board. Due to disorganization, as well as insufficient training of the ship's crew, 17 people died. 15 people were never found. More than 80 people were injured.

But despite the fact that human casualties in water disasters have recently become minimal, the costs from them are not decreasing. Why are there costs, this is all a matter of gain, imagine what kind of stress a person receives during a crash.

In my understanding, the expectation of an imminent death is a huge blow to the human psyche, which can hardly be compared with anything.

That's all for today, subscribe to blog updates, I have something to tell you about. Share the article with your friends in social networks, I am sure that they will also be interested in reading about disasters on the water. Take care of yourself, until we meet again, bye-bye.

Exactly 6 years ago, confirming the infamy of Friday the 13th, a huge cruise liner Costa Concordia (Costa Concordia), carrying more than 4,200 people, crashed near the island of Giglio off the coast of Tuscany in Italy.

The name of the ship in literal translation means the coast of peace (consent, harmony). Costa Concordia was the largest ship in the Costa Crociere company, and in 2006 was in 10th place in the Top 10 largest cruise ships in the world.

The cruise liner Costa Concordia was built at the Italian shipyard Fincantieri in Sestri Ponente (a suburb of Genoa) in 2006 by order of Costa Crociere. At that time, in the world rankings, it was the 10th largest passenger ship and the largest for Costa. "Costa Concordia" became the lead ship in a series of six units.

Initially, Costa, founded by entrepreneur Giacomo Costa back in 1854, was Italian, but in 1997 it became international, and in 2000 it was acquired by the American cruise consortium Carnival. However, the company's ships continued to sail under the Italian flag, and their command staff was still predominantly Italian.

The contract for the construction of the ship was signed on January 19, 2002. The contract value was 450 million euros. Launching took place on September 2, 2005, the acceptance certificate was signed on June 30, 2006. At the Costa Concordia's christening ceremony seven days later, Czech supermodel Eva Herzigova acted as godmother. It is symbolic that the bottle of champagne thrown on board by the Czech diva did not break, which was considered a bad omen..

Costa Concordia had 13 decks; maximum length the vessel was 290.2 m, beam - 35.5 m, draft - 8.2 m, gross tonnage - 114,147 gross tonnage. Combined diesel-electric power point included 6 diesel generators with a total capacity of 102,780 hp. and two electric motors with a capacity of 21 MW each. Max speed was equal to 23 knots, operational - 19.6 knots.

One and a half thousand comfortable cabins of different classes (from 16.7 to 44.8 sq.m) could accommodate 3,780 passengers. All cabins were equipped with TV, telephone, air conditioning, private bathroom and toilet. In addition, there were 14 elevators, 4 swimming pools, 5 restaurants, 13 bars, a theater, a two-level fitness center, a casino, a Formula 1 simulator. The ship's own crew consisted of 1100 people.

The Costa Concordia set off on its maiden voyage on July 14, 2006 and operated for several years on cruise lines in the Western Mediterranean. On the evening of January 13, 2012, the ship left the port of Civitavecchia and headed for Savona. It was a typical 7 Nights Winter Mediterranean cruise. At about 21:30 in the area of ​​the island of Giglio, when most of passengers dined in a restaurant, the liner hits a stone reef with its left side and gets an underwater hole 53 m long (from the 52nd frame to the 125th). Five compartments, from the third to the eighth, quickly fill with water, the main engines stop. "Costa Concordia" manages to pass by inertia a little more than a kilometer and turns her nose to the harbor of Giglio. Then, under the influence of the wind, she drifts and at about 10 pm she runs aground in the immediate vicinity of the coast. The vessel, designed to maintain buoyancy only when two compartments are flooded, begins to sink with a roll to starboard.

The crash of the liner seemed inexplicable. General bewilderment can be understood: "Costa Concordia" walked past the island of Giglio once a week, that is, 52 times a year, and how did she manage to run into a stone reef? Why did the liner deviate from its course by 3-4 miles?

Subsequently, the captain of the cruise ship, Francesco Schettino, admitted that he decided to bring the ship closer to the island of Giglio and greet the former captain of the Costa Concordia, who lived there, his good friend. He had already done this several times on previous flights, but on that ill-fated Friday he hesitated with the turn, and the liner ripped the board against the stones. The court recognized this version as the most likely, although Schettino later changed his testimony. In particular, he claimed that he was forced to change course by the manager of the Carnival company, but this statement was not supported by the facts.

At the time of the disaster, there were 3,216 passengers from 62 countries and 1,023 crew members on board. Among the passengers were 108 Russians, 45 citizens of Ukraine, 7 citizens of Moldova, 3 - Kazakhstan and 3 - Belarus. In addition, three of our compatriots were members of the liner's crew.

The rescue operation was badly organized. Instead of immediately starting the evacuation of passengers, the captain of the liner was silent for 15 minutes, and then announced to the passengers that the ship had only minor problems with the generator. And only almost an hour after the accident, when the ship listed 30 degrees, an emergency alarm sounded. The landing of people in the boats was accompanied by panic and stampede. Only the proximity of the coast made it possible to avoid a huge number of victims.

Captain Schettino, according to investigators, was one of the first to leave the ship without sending a distress signal. The Coast Guard found out about the crash of the liner belatedly and joined the evacuation of people only late at night. The active phase of the rescue operation continued until morning. Some passengers were transported ashore by helicopters.

Passengers who ended up on the island of Giglio were accommodated in a local church, school and other premises where there was at least a little free space. Local residents helped the victims of the crash as best they could, brought them food, blankets, warm clothes. Meanwhile, rescuers did not stop working, trying to find people inside the ship, including in the underwater part in the resulting air bags. Their efforts were not unsuccessful: on January 14-15, two newlyweds from South Korea and one Italian - a member of the crew of the liner.

The victims of the disaster were 32 people. The search for bodies continued for a long time - the remains of the most recent missing were discovered only in November 2013. On February 1, 2014, another person was added to the mournful list - a diver died in an accident during work to raise the ship.

The Costa Concordia remained at the wreck for two years and became a tourist attraction. A stream of tourists rushed to the island of Giglio. In the nearby town of San Stefano, located on the mainland, tour operators did business selling tickets for excursions to the site of the tragedy. However, the inhabitants of the island were not pleased with the ship's hull, which became a grave. In addition, they feared that fuel and sewage would begin to flow out of the liner. Therefore, they threatened the Costa Crociere company with a lawsuit if the half-sunk ship was not removed in a timely manner.

On board the sunken liner were about six thousand works of art. The most valuable of them is a rare collection of Japanese engravings of the 18th-19th centuries, in particular, the work of Katsushika Hokusai. The Costa Concordia also had 19th-century Bohemian glass, antiques, jewelry from the ship's jewelry stores, valuables and money left by passengers in the cabins. Therefore, the forces of the Coast Guard and the Carabinieri guarded the ship from the encroachments of marauders. However, the Italian media reported back in March 2012 that the ship's bell was stolen.

Pumping out of 2300 tons of fuel, oil and sewage was completed on March 24, 2012. A month later, it was announced that the American company Titan Salvage had won the tender for the lifting and evacuation of the vessel. Initially, the operation was expected to take seven to ten months. In fact, it turned out much more, since a large amount of preparatory work was required. An underwater platform was built under the bottom of the ship, special counterweight pontoons were mounted on the port side, which, after filling with water, were supposed to put the liner on even keel.

The 19-hour operation to straighten and lift the liner was carried out on September 16-17, 2013. The ship was set on an even keel with the help of 36 steel cables and counterweight pontoons. Then a platform with similar pontoons was brought to the starboard side. After draining all the pontoons, the skeleton of the Costa Concordia floated to the surface.

It is believed that the work performed has become the most expensive in history rescue operations. Their cost was about 250 million euros.

The Costa Concordia remained off the island of Giglio for another 10 months, and only at the end of July 2014 was it towed for disposal to the shipyard in Sestri Ponente, where the ship was built 8 years ago. It was assumed that the work on cutting the hull into metal would take 22 months and end in the spring of 2016.

The main and, in fact, the only culprit of the disaster, the court recognized the captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino. He was accused of negligence, inadvertently killing 32 people, and leaving his ship before all passengers were evacuated. However, Schettino denied many of the charges brought against him, showing miracles of resourcefulness. In particular, he argued that it was not he who was to blame for the deaths, but the unsatisfactory security system of the liner. He tried to shift the blame for the collision with the reef to the Filipino helmsman, who, allegedly due to poor knowledge of the language, carried out the commands too slowly ... He explained his flight at the very beginning of the evacuation in court as follows: “I didn’t even have a life jacket, because I gave it to one of the passengers. I tried to get the vest out of the lifeboat where they usually lie. The ship suddenly lists somewhere at 60-70 degrees. I stumbled and got into one of lifeboats. That's why I was there."

Tests for alcohol and drugs gave a negative result, but Schettino, according to people who knew him, even when sober was distinguished by indiscipline and recklessness unusual for his age (51). One of his colleagues said: “He would even drive a bus like a Ferrari!

On February 12, 2015, the Grosseto City Court found Schettino guilty and sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

The total damage from the death of the Costa Concordia for the ship-owning company amounted to approximately 1.5 billion euros. And this, of course, without taking into account reputational losses.