Have there been tragedies at sea aboard cruise ships? The answer is yes, sometimes things go awry for vacationers on cruise ships. These floating cities average capacity of 3, guests but some are filled with 5, are likely to be at risk for many of the same things that travelers face on any trip…and more.
Costa Concordia : The Costa Concordia was a large cruise ship filled with 3, passengers when it ran aground on a reef off the coast of Italy in Image via wikipedia. The deck ship actually tipped over after it took on water. In one of the most tragic accidents of its kind, 32 passengers were killed, 64 were injured, and one was missing and never found.
In the costliest ship disaster in history, it took over a year and a half to bring the ship upright, after which it was taken to port and dismantled. The accident was caused when the ship Captain Francesco Schettino decided to sail close to the shore to impress local residents. Then the captain committed the ultimate maritime sin: he abandoned ship while passengers were still onboard. Schettino was convicted of manslaughter. RMS Titanic: In probably the most famous cruise ship disaster of all time, this sinking has become legend, books and movies.
Image via documentarytube. In the early morning hours, the ship struck an iceberg in the frigid north Atlantic waters.
Eastland : Only three years after the Titanic tragedy, the S. Eastland rolled over on its side while still docked. At the time, the ship held Western Electric employees celebrating an event. The disaster resulted in deaths. Image via eastlanddisaster. Seabourn Spirit: In November this luxury cruise ship was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Two boats of pirates neared the ship and fired machine guns and hand held rocket propelled grenades. Image via visualitineraries. One crew member was injured by shrapnel. The ship has been renamed the Star Breeze. Image via cruiseshipdeaths. There were passengers aboard of which 30 were killed and 70 injured. Most passengers were asleep at the time of the collision.
The casualties were compounded by a broken PA system and a crew that reportedly focused on saving themselves instead of passengers. Image via Princess Cruises. A grand-class Princess Line cruise ship, Princess is owned by Carnival. Investigation revealed a cigarette left on the deck caused the fire, which took the life of one passenger from smoke inhalation and injured 13 others.
In one part, Francecso Verusio relives the moment when the youngest victim of the disaster, five-year-old Dayana Arlotti, and her father, William, drowned. COP World leaders agree climate change deal but 'deep disappointment' over fossil fuel compromise.
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It also emerged that holidaymaker Maria D'Introno - whose body has yet to be recovered - was told to get out of a lifeboat because it was too full and the tilt of the ship made it impossible to launch safely. She was later seen terrified by the edge of the ship, jumping into the water without a lifejacket despite not being able to swim.
It emerged he had been directed to the right-hand side of the boat to get into a lifeboat and had actually got into one when he decided to give up his place - only to later drown. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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The Concordia, on a week-long Mediterranean cruise, speared a jagged granite reef when, prosecutors allege, Schettino steered the ship too close to Giglio's rocky shores as a favour to a crewman whose relatives lived on the island. Survivors described an evacuation that was so confused and delayed that by the time it got under way, lifeboats on one side of the Concordia could no longer be launched because the vessel was already badly listing. The list of the victims began with a Frenchman, Francis Servel, who "not having found a place on the lifeboat, threw himself into the sea without a life vest", the court official read.
He was "sucked toward the bottom of the whirlpool produced by the final flipping over on the right side of the ship, and then died due to asphyxiation". Shortly after the tragedy, survivors recounted how Servel had given his wife his life vest because she didn't know how to swim, the court heard. The bodies of victims No 31 and 32 were never found, but after a long, futile search of the ship's interior and the nearby waters they were declared dead.
One of them was a middle-aged Italian passenger, Maria Grazia Trecarichi, who with no place on a lifeboat and while waiting to be rescued wearing a life vest, "slid off into the sea because of the progressive tilt of the boat" and presumably drowned, the court official said.
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