Costa Concordia News

Who Took The Costa Concordia's Bell?

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

ROME -- Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into the disappearance of the bell from the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia. Franco Gab...

Wrecked Cruise Ship Moves In Rough Seas

AP | Posted 04.11.2012

ROME -- Italian officials say rough seas have increased movements of the crippled Costa Concordia and are thwarting the start of fuel removal a month ...

France Opens Investigation Into Costa Concordia Tragedy

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

PARIS -- The Paris prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into the grounding off the Italian coast of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ...

Rough Sea Stalls Fuel Removal From Costa Concordia

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD and FULVIO PAOLUCCI | Posted 03.29.2012

GIGLIO, Italy — Rough seas off Italy's Tuscan coast forced a delay in the planned Saturday start of the operation to remove a half-million gallo...

Twice The Size Of The Titanic, What Will Happen With The Costa Concordia?

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2012

By Gilbert Kreijger AMSTERDAM, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Twice the size of the Titanic and three times the length of a soccer pitch, the crui...

LOOK: Dramatic New Photos Show Costa Concordia Hours After Disaster

Posted 03.27.2012

New photos have surfaced showing the Costa Concordia in the immediate hours after the cruise liner ran aground off the coast of Italy's Isola del Gigl...

Official: Finding More Survivors Would Be Miracle

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 03.26.2012

ROME — Search efforts aboard the capsized Costa Concordia resumed Wednesday, even as the official overseeing the operation acknowledged for the ...

Divers Find Another Body In Costa Concordia Wreck

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD and FULVIO PAOLOCCI | Posted 03.25.2012

GIGLIO, Italy — A barge carrying a crane and other equipment hitched itself to the toppled Costa Concordia on Tuesday, signaling the start of pr...

Divers Find Woman's Body In Stricken Ship

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO and TRISHA THOMAS | Posted 03.22.2012

GIGLIO, Italy — Divers plumbing the capsized Costa Concordia's murky depths pulled out the body of a woman in a life vest Saturday, while scuba-...

25-Year-Old Blond 'Mystery Woman' Defends Cruise Ship Captain

Posted 01.20.2012

Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of Italy last week, is not a well-liked man. According ...

Concordia Search Resumes Above Waterline After Ship Shifts

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 03.21.2012

ROME — The cruise captain who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 people on board did not relay correct information eit...