Costa Concordia
How a reckless decision by the captain of a cruise liner caused the ship to run aground and sink off the Italian island of Giglio. 32 people died in the disaster in 2012.
Costa Concordia hit submerged rocks off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, leaving a fifty-metre-long gash in the hull. More than four thousand passengers and crew were on board. Ian and Janice Donoff were hoping to get away in a lifeboat, but it got stuck as it was being lowered into the sea, so they had to find another way off. Thirty-two people died in the disaster. The captain was later found guilty of manslaughter for needlessly navigating the ship too close to the shore of an island it was sailing past.
Produced and presented by Nick Holland
PHOTO: The Costa Concordia lying aground off Giglio (2012)
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