![]() On 13 January 2012, under the command of Captain Francesco Schettino, Costa Concordia departed Civitavecchia, the port for Rome, Italy, on a seven-night cruise. She also had aboard a Grand Prix motor racing simulator and an internet café. Entertainment options included a three-level theatre, casino, a futuristic disco, a children's area equipped with video games and a basketball court. There were thirteen bars, including a cigar and cognac bar and a coffee and chocolate bar. There were also five on-board restaurants, with Club Concordia and Samsara taking reservations-only dining. The ship had four swimming pools, two with retractable roofs, five Jacuzzis, five spas, and a poolside movie theatre on the main pool deck. Costa Concordia had one of the world's largest exercise facility areas at sea, the Samsara Spa, a two-level, 6,000 m 2 (64,600 sq ft) fitness center, with gym, a thalassotherapy pool, sauna, Turkish bath and a solarium. Deck 1 was the lowest: Ĭosta Concordia was outfitted with approximately 1,500 cabins 505 with private balconies, and 55 with direct access to the Samsara Spa, which were considered Spa staterooms 58 suites had private balconies and 12 had direct access to the spa. Her design service speed was 19.6 knots (36 km/h 23 mph), but during sea trials, she achieved a speed of 23 knots (43 km/h 26 mph).Ĭosta Concordia had 13 public decks, each named after a European state. The ship was propelled by two 21-megawatt electric motors coupled to fixed-pitch propellers. These main generators provided power for all shipboard consumers from propulsion motors to hotel functions such as lighting and air conditioning. She had a Diesel-electric power plant consisting of six 12-cylinder Wärtsilä 12V46C four-stroke medium-speed Diesel generating sets with a combined output of 76.6 MW (102,780 hp). The name Concordia was intended to express the wish for "continuing harmony, unity, and peace between European nations". It cost €450 million (£372 million, US$570 million) to build. The ship was delivered to Costa on 30 June 2006. At the vessel's launch at Sestri Ponente on 2 September 2005, the champagne bottle, released by model Eva Herzigová, failed to break when swung against the hull the first time, an inauspicious omen in maritime superstition. Ĭosta Concordia in Piraeus, Greece, on 30 November 2006Ĭosta Concordia was ordered in 2004 by Carnival Corporation from Fincantieri and built in the Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa, as yard number 6122. The wreck was salvaged three years after the incident and then towed to the port of Genoa, where scrapping operations began. Francesco Schettino, the ship's captain at that time, was subsequently found guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident, and abandoning his ship. The evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours, and of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died. As water flooded in and the ship listed, she drifted back towards the island and grounded near shore, then rolled onto her starboard side, lying in an unsteady position on a rocky underwater ledge. ![]() This tore open a 50 m (160 ft) gash on the port side of her hull, which soon flooded parts of the engine room, cutting power from the engines and ship services. ![]() On 13 January 2012 at 21:45, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio. When the 114,137- ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service, they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130,000 GT Dream-class cruise ships. She was the first of her class, followed by sister ships Costa Serena, Costa Pacifica, Costa Favolosa and Costa Fascinosa, and Carnival Splendor built for Carnival Cruise Line. ![]()
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