Costa Concordia

Deep Sea and Foreign Going

by Rose George  · 4 Sep 2013  · 402pp  · 98,760 words

other people’s danger, and a sharp guilty delight at being safe abed. No ship can protect itself against the sea. When the cruise ship Costa Concordia was holed in 2012 by a rock off the coast of Italy and toppled, a headline read ‘Big ships still sink’, as if this was

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still expect our captains to be heroes. In 2011, Italian cruise-ship captain Francesco Schettino was widely and violently vilified for leaving the cruise ship Costa Concordia when there were still hundreds of passengers aboard. Not only had he not stayed on his ship, let alone not gone down with it, but

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Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

by Elizabeth Becker  · 16 Apr 2013  · 570pp  · 158,139 words

world. Without global enforcement of basic rules, cruise ships are a major polluter of the seas and pose serious risks. The dramatic capsizing of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian coast in 2012 killed at least 32 people and raised questions about the safety of these mammoth ships. To make

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industry is both admired and reviled today and why it is considered a harbinger of where mass tourism is headed. The 2012 disaster of the Costa Concordia, an Italian cruise ship, brought some of these issues to light. The pilot ran the ship aground off Italy’s coast, capsizing it, killing 32

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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

by Richard Branson  · 8 Sep 2014  · 315pp  · 99,065 words

’s billionaire chairman and CEO Micky Arison when his cruise lines suffered two major accidents in the space of a year. When his ship the Costa Concordia ran aground on a little Italian island (that it should not have been anywhere near) killing thirty-two and seriously disrupting the lives of thousands

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team he owns). Amazingly, even after the lambasting he took for failing to make his way to Italy as soon as he heard of the Costa Concordia disaster, it seems he isn’t one to learn from his mistakes. Almost a year later another of Arison’s huge cruise ships – the ironically

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Lonely Planet Florence & Tuscany

by Lonely Planet, Virginia Maxwell and Nicola Williams  · 1 Dec 2013  · 874pp  · 154,810 words

Elba, Giglio (population 1500), the second-largest Tuscan island, is 21 km sq and was in the spotlight most as the place where cruise ship Costa Concordia met its tragic end in 2012. The wreckage was still being dismantled and removed in summer 2013. Then there is pinprick Pianosa, a haven of

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is already functional and, if Florentines are lucky, Line 2 could be complete by the end of 2014. Ecological disaster was narrowly averted after the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground on rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio in January 2012. The clean-up operation to salvage all 114,500 tonnes

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina  · 19 Aug 2019

Congress held hearings on this problem, lawmakers discovered that nearly a third of the reported sexual assaults on these ships were against minors. When the Costa Concordia, another cruise ship owned by Carnival, infamously capsized off the coast of Italy in 2012, investigators uncovered reports of prostitution and Mafia-stashed drugs on

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News, April 4, 2014; Jonathan Brown and Michael Day, “Cruise Ship Limps In—but Costa’s Nightmare Goes On,” Independent, March 2, 2012; Michael Day, “Costa Concordia: Shipment of Mob Drugs Was Hidden Aboard Cruise Liner When It Hit Rocks off Italian Coast, Investigators Say,” Independent Online, March 30, 2015; Richard Foot

Venice: A New History

by Thomas F. Madden  · 24 Oct 2012  · 466pp  · 146,982 words

cite the danger to Venetian buildings and waters should an accident occur. These warnings were given greater credence after January 2012 when the cruise liner Costa Concordia struck rocks and partially capsized off the coast of Tuscany. Activists insist that something similar could happen in Venice and that the results would be

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey  · 15 Nov 2011  · 1,205pp  · 308,891 words

enough. Italy, as I said, and as the Italians say, is rich despite its government. An Italian commentator remarked that his country was like the Costa Concordia, run aground in 2012 by Captain Francesco Schettino, a beautiful ship with an irresponsible idiot in charge. In India before 1991 under the License Raj

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A Book for Her

by Bridget Christie  · 1 Jul 2015  · 252pp  · 85,441 words

,750 migrants have perished in the Mediterranean. The Foreign Office said it will not support future search and rescue operations because they encourage migration. The Costa Concordia cruise-ship disaster resulted in the loss of thirty-two lives, many of whom were white Europeans. Will the Foreign Office support search and rescue

The Finance Book: Understand the Numbers Even if You're Not a Finance Professional

by Stuart Warner and Si Hussain  · 20 Apr 2017  · 439pp  · 79,447 words

, such as the Smiler ride safety failure at Alton Towers in 2015. Physical damage or destruction of an asset, e.g. the grounding of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2012. Technological advances that make using existing assets uncompetitive or obsolete. The list is not exhaustive. Illustration Take the example of the