If you follow cruise industry news, or if you follow the news at all, you’ll probably know plenty about the
Costa Concordia disaster. You’ll recall that the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that could hold over 4,000 passengers, crashed into rocks near the Isola del Giglio, Italy, an accident causing 32 deaths, because its captain,
Francesco Schettino, sailed too close to shore. However, this tragedy happened nearly two years ago, and you probably haven’t heard much about the ship since then. What happened to the Costa Concordia? Do the waters off the coast Giglio now have a permanent shipwreck site, or are they going raise the Costa Concordia and get it out of there? At last, there is some new information on this front, and the plan, by no means guaranteed to be successful, is to remove the ship from its current, tenuous resting place, possibly as soon as this Monday. Below are the most recent updates about the Costa Concordia.
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