Costa Concordia disaster

{{location map|Italy , with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, Situation on the bridge Schettino said that, before approaching the island, he turned off the alarm system for Costa Concordias computer navigation system. Situation on deck Passengers were in the dining hall when there was a sudden, loud bang, which a crew member (speaking over the intercom) ascribed to an "electrical failure". The ship lost cabin electrical power shortly after the initial impact. File:Costa-concordia-routes.png|Route leading to disaster compared to route of 14 August 2011 File:Costa Concordia map 13-1-2012 (en) recoloured.png|Timeline of the disaster File:Location of Costa Concordia cruise-ship disaster (13-1-2012)-2.png|Closeup of the disaster ==Rescue==

Evacuation In the first contact, made at 22:12, between the Port of Livorno's harbormaster, a 37-year-old Coast Guard Petty Officer named Alessandro Tosi, and Costa Concordia after the impact on the reef, an unidentified officer on board the cruise ship insisted they were suffering only from an electrical "black-out" from a blown electrical generator. A passenger's video recorded at 22:20 showed panicked passengers in life jackets being told by a crew member that "everything is under control" and that they should return to their cabins. while others, ready to evacuate the vessel, were delayed by crew members up to 45 minutes, as they resisted immediately lowering the lifeboats. At 01:04, an Air Force officer who was lowered on board by helicopter reported that there were still 100 people on board. only to wake and find that they could not open their cabin's door, two decks above the water line, The search for the two still missing bodies continued after the ship was righted on 17 September 2013. On 26 September 2013, unidentified remains were found near the central part of the ship, where they were last seen. The remains were subjected to DNA testing to determine their identity. On 8 October 2013, the family of missing crew member Russel Rebello was informed that a body believed to be his had been found near the third deck at the stern of the ship. Items on the body were reportedly identified as belonging to missing passenger Maria Grazia Trecarichi instead and on 24 October 2013 it was reported that DNA analysis had confirmed it was her body. Additional bone fragments of unknown identity were found in the wreck a few days after the body was found. On 23 October 2013, it was announced that the search for the missing while the wreck was still in the water was completed as far as was technically possible. Depending on the outcome of identification analyses of remains already found, it was stated that further search activities might be conducted in the wreck for the final missing body after it had been removed from the water. On 6 and 7 August 2014, divers found human remains on the wreck which was then moored in the port of Genoa. On 3 November 2014, the final body was discovered in the wreckage of the ship. ==Wreck==

Looting Numerous reports of the wreck site being infiltrated by looters and souvenir hunters were made following the disaster. Items stolen from the wreck include the ship's bell, cash registers, jewellery, furniture, artwork and various assorted smaller items. Sources at Costa Crociere indicated that the thieves may have gained access to the interior of the ship via entrances cut by search and rescue teams. Securing wreck site and protecting environment of the type relocated away from the Costa Concordia wreck for fear of the threat posed by subsequent engineering work Isola del Giglio lies within the Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals, Salvage On 12 February 2012, was predicted to take from 7 to 10 months, depending on weather and sea conditions. Once in port, the ship would be dismantled and the materials sold as scrap. The salvage plan included the following operations: • Secure the hull to the land using steel cables, to stop it falling deeper • Build a horizontal underwater platform below the ship • Attach sponsons, to the port side of the hull • Bring the hull to vertical, by winching (or parbuckling) the hull onto the platform • Attach sponsons to the starboard side of the hull • Refloat the hull and tanks • Recovery tow to an Italian port Parbuckling :: Preparatory work consisted of building an underwater metal platform and artificial seabed made of sand and cement on the downhill side of the wreck and welding sponsons to the side of the ship above the surface. The operation to right the ship and free it from the rocks began on 16 September 2013 but was delayed by bad weather. Once the ship had been rotated slightly past a critical angle of 24° from its resting position, valves on the sponsons were opened to allow seawater to flood into them and the increasing weight of the water in the sponsons completed the rolling of the ship to the upright position at an accelerated pace, without further need of the strand jacks and cables. The ship was returned to a fully upright position in the early hours of 17 September 2013, shortly before 3:00 a.m. CET. the salvage operation had cost over €600 million ($800 million). The final cost of the salvage came to be $1.2 billion. Images of righting of Costa Concordia File:Costa_Concordia_parbuckling_07.jpg|The operation progresses slowly, at less than 2 degrees per hour. On the right are the port side sponsons. File:Costa_Concordia_parbuckling_09.jpg|Sponsons ready to fill with sea water, nearing 24 degrees of rotation File:Costa_Concordia_parbuckling_11.jpg|The morning after the parbuckling File:Costa_Concordia_parbuckling_18.jpg|After parbuckling and before refloat, September 2013 File: Costa_Concordia_parbuckling_spectral_view_17.jpg|Starboard side of the righted Costa Concordia, showing crush damage from the rock spurs upon which she had rested Refloating and removal Following the conclusion of the righting operation, the ship was kept on the platform while further inspections were made and the starboard sponsons attached. On 10 October 2013 a $30 million option was taken with Dockwise for the use of the world's largest semi-submersible heavy lift vessel, , to transport Costa Concordia as an alternative to conventional towing, but ultimately Costa Concordia was indeed refloated and towed to Genoa in July 2014. In December 2013, invitations were issued by Costa to 12 companies to tender for the dismantling of Costa Concordia, in France, Italy, Norway, Turkey and the UK. On 30 June 2014 the Italian Government endorsed Costa's decision to have the vessel dismantled at Genoa by Italian companies Saipem, Mariotti and San Giorgio. On 1 February 2014 a Spanish diver working on the Costa Concordia wreck died after cutting his leg on a sheet of metal. He was brought to the surface alive by a fellow diver, but later died. This was the only death to occur during the Costa Concordia salvage operation. On 14 July 2014 salvage operators re-floated Costa Concordia off her submerged platform and towed the ship laterally a short distance from the coast. On 23 July 2014, Costa Concordia began her final journey to the Port of Genoa. Scrapping On 27 July 2014, Costa Concordia arrived in Genoa where it was moored against a wharf that had been specially prepared to receive the vessel for dismantling. On 11 May 2015, Costa Concordia was towed to the Superbacino dock in Genoa to remove the upper decks and superstructure. The last of the sponsons were removed in August 2016 and the hull was taken into Genoa drydock No. 4 on 1 September for final dismantling. Final scrapping of the ship was completed on 7 July 2017, with 53,000 tons of material having been recycled. File:Refloating crop.jpg|Wreck refloated, 20 July 2014 File:La-Costa-Concordia-entra-nel-Porto-di-Pra-27-luglio-2014 (cropped).jpg|Wreck departing Giglio for Genoa, 23 July 2014 File:2014 07 27 Arrivo Concordia (14) (cropped).jpg|Wreck arriving at Genoa, 27 July 2014 File:Costa Concordia in fase di ormeggio al terminal VTE (cropped).jpg|Wreck docked near Genoa, Pegli (Porto di Prà), 27 July 2014 File:Genova Riparazioni Navali e Costa Concordia - panoramio (Costa Concordia).jpg|Wreck after being lightened and relocated to the Superbacino dock in Genoa, 28 August 2015 File:Costa Concordia Abwracken.jpg|The wreck, with its superstructure being dismantled, in the Superbacino dock in Genoa, 12 September 2015 File:Costa Concordia scrapping 2017-01-10-17-05-37 (39495820581).jpg|The wreck in its final stage of demolition in drydock No. 4 Genoa, 10 January 2017 File:Genoa (Italy)-Génova (Italia) - 50550421238 (Dry Dock) (Costa Concordia).jpg|The wreck near the end of its final stage of demolition, with keel visible, in drydock No. 4 Genoa, 10 June 2017 Site remediation After the wreck of Costa Concordia was towed away, Costa Crociere put Micoperi in charge of the salvage site remediation. This project is also known as phase WP9. Initially, $85 million was assigned to the project, which was to start at the end of 2014, and take about 15 months for its completion. The main activities included ocean floor cleaning, anchor block removal, grout bag removal, and platform removal. The project continued into May 2018. The entities involved regularly published details of the activity. Ship remnants and artifacts The entirety of Costa Concordia was recycled during her scrapping. The first phase of this effort, which began on 16 October 2014, centered upon the removal of all the furniture and interior structures within the ship, as well as waste found in the secured parts of the ship. ==Loss and compensation==

Passengers and personnel