Cruise ship runs aground in Italy - BBC World News coverage - January 14, 2012

Three people are confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy.

The Costa Concordia hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island of Giglio and listed about 20 degrees, after which people tried to reach land in lifeboats or by swimming.

Rescue teams have been going from cabin to cabin, searching for survivors.

Italians, Germans, French and British were among the 3,200 passengers. There were also 1,000 crew on board.

Helicopters evacuated the last 50 people on the deck who were in a "worsening" situation.

Three people were confirmed dead, Italian coast guard officials said on Saturday morning - fewer than the six or eight deaths reported by Italian media earlier.

The Costa Concordia had sailed earlier on Friday from Civitavecchia port near Rome for a Mediterranean cruise, due to dock in Marseille after calling at ports in Sicily, Sardinia and Spain.

One thousand passengers were Italian, with 500 Germans and 160 French.

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[Trulyloyale]

Carnival = US trash , typical anglosaxon attitude in running off their responsabilities and mistakes blaming others x their own shame .....something seen so many times in history !

[Trulyloyale]

( sinking of Crown Princess sailing Florida's waters , wimpy american commander who sounded terrified and in panic making the announcement to evacuate the ship , July 2006 ) ??!! XDD

Typical americans ;-)

[Trulyloyale]

No wonder , what else from the country of Katrina and the "stunning " rescueing of quaked Haitians with battleships and battallions of armed Marines in place of nedicals, tents & food ??!!

What else from these wimpy americans who occasionally try to blame pthers with pathetic arrogance and at same time own and manage not only trashy Carnival, but also Royal Caribbean ( the sinking of Explorer of the Seas ) and Princess Cruises subsidiary of Carnival

[Trulyloyale]

lack of lifeboats some of which out of order ( as customable on ships from speaking English countries,since April 15th, 1912 .....) , embarrassing disorganization , bloody mess and panic on the whole ship , lots of lies to cover up their criminal indifference x passengers safety .....

Wow , impressive action by american Carnival that brought to bottom that Costa Cruises Line known as the best in the world when it was ALL ITALIAN ( holy truth ) !!

[Trulyloyale]

@ClarksonsinUSA when Carnival disgracelly acquired Costa Cruises Line on 1998 it was probably trusting that a nutsy captain and a worldwide lowpayed crappy crew could have pulled away all the typical american trash & incapability in doing things at Top level they brought to ...;-))

We can see on Concordia the result of such a typical skillfull american running of cruise business viewable on all Carnival trashy ships around the world :

farcical inhability by untrained 1000 members of crew

[SonofBrunhilde]

As if there is a difference? FUCKING DICKHEAD.

[ClarksonsinUSA]

@sguaraus1984 the bases are still there for now , because we are still babysitting Europe!!

What was Carnival thinking,hiring Italians to run the ship?????The entire captains staff, Italiano... ;)

[ClarksonsinUSA]

@sguaraus1984 what was Carnival thinking when they hired an all Italian captains crew..  ;)

[sguaraus1984]

Costa Crociere exists from 1946 and never had any accident, from 1997 it was bought by Carnival Corporation with headquarter in Miami (USA),

Costa Crociere is an american company, not italian.

[sguaraus1984]

@platvis379 Naples, obvious!