Captain Of The Cruise Ship That Sank In Italy

The captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino takes place for his trial on July 9 2013 in Grosseto.

Captain of the cruise ship that sank in italy. Born 14 November 1960 is an Italian former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when it struck an underwater rock and capsized with the deaths of 32 passengers and crew off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012. Schettino allowed back on stricken vessel amid manslaughter probe. Construction and maiden voyage.

In Italy coastguard rescue teams are continuing to search the wreckage of the cruise ship that sank off the coast of Tuscany. Captain Francesco Schettino was on. The captain of the cruise ship that sank off Italys coast leaving some 39 people dead or missing was ordered to return aboard from a lifeboat to oversee his ships evacuation.

Francesco Schettino the captain of the Costa Concordia returned on Thursday to the stricken cruise ship more than two years after leaving it in. Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. A profile of 52-year-old Italian cruise liner captain Francesco Schettino jailed for manslaughter for his role in the Costa Concordia maritime disaster in January 2012.

More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. By Stacy Meichtry. Costa Concordia Captain Schettino Chicken of the Seas.

By Jim Walker on January 16 2012. Enzo RussoEPA The captain of a doomed luxury liner that struck a reef off the. The behavior of the ships captain Francesco Schettino has deeply.

Captain Francesco Schettino was at the command of the cruise liner in January 2012 when it hit rocks off the coast of Tuscany and sank killing 32 people. But not on the Costa Concordia. According to the harbor masters office the.