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Did they find all the bodies on the Costa Concordia?

3 Years After Wreck, Remains Of Final Costa Concordia Victim Are Found : The Two-Way Workers at a salvage yard found remains believed to be of Russel Rebello, the last victim still missing after the cruise ship capsized in January of 2012.



Yes, all 32 victims of the Costa Concordia disaster were eventually recovered, though it took nearly three years to complete the task. The initial search in January 2012 recovered most of the bodies, but several remained missing in the submerged and dangerous parts of the wreckage. In October 2013, after the ship was "righted" through the parbuckling process, the body of the 31st victim, Maria Grazia Trecarichi, was found. The 32nd and final victim, Russel Rebello, an Indian waiter who was hailed as a hero for helping others escape, remained missing until November 2014. His remains were discovered in a cabin by salvage workers as the ship was being dismantled in Genoa, Italy. This final recovery provided much-needed closure to the families and the rescue teams involved. A 33rd casualty is often cited: a Spanish diver who tragically died in 2014 while working on the salvage operation itself.

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Final scrapping of the ship was completed on July 7, 2017, with 53,000 tons of material having been recycled.

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The court heard how some passengers were sucked into a vortex of water rushing into the ship when the Concordia capsized. This happened after the crew told them to go to the other side of the ship where lifeboats were being launched, and the passengers ended up trying to walk down a tilting corridor.

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While the loss of life on the Titanic was much worse than on the Costa Concordia, even the Titanic's poorly planned evacuation may have been less chaotic than the one off the Tuscan coast.

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This is for the 5-year-old Dayana Arlotti from Italy, the youngest victim of the Costa Concordia disaster. She was found one month after the tragedy, together with her William Arlotti.

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Costa Concordia – 2012 If the Titanic is the most famous cruise ship sinking in history, then Costa Concordia would take that title for modern history. The Costa Cruises ship sank after striking an underwater rock off the coast of Tuscany, sailing closer to the island than it should have done.

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The two U.S. victims — the only Americans who died in the accident — were identified as Barbara and Gerald Heil of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Also identified were Christina Mathi Ganz and Norbert Josef Ganz of Muehlheim am Main of Germany, and Giuseppe Girolamo, the crew member.

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GROSSETO, Italy - The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship was convicted and sentenced Wednesday to 16 years and one month in prison for multiple counts of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship in the 2012 disaster that killed 32 people.

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Schettino's first mate Ciro Ambrosio, who was the officer on the bridge and in command of the ship when it went off course, was handed a sentence of one year and 11 months; third officer Silvia Coronica, who was second in command to Ambrosio at the time, received 18 months; and helmsman Jacob Rusli Bin was sentenced to ...

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Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest accused of manslaughter and abandoning ship after he grounded the Costa Concordia on the island of Giglio following the collision, has told investigators that he had not drunk alcohol that night.

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A Country Durham man who was on board the Costa Concordia has spoken about escaping from the stricken vessel. Ian Fraser, who worked as a singer on the cruise ship, described jumping into the freezing water after feeling all other options had run out.

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Francesco Schettino, the former cruise ship captain sentenced to 16 years for steering the Costa Concordia into rocks, was finally jailed Friday after his lengthy appeals process ran out.

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In 2023 thus far, there have been 10 overboard incidents affecting 11 people, according to data compiled by Ross Klein, a social work professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, who runs a cruise safety website. Nine of those eleven people died as a result.

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Before starting his prison sentence, Schettino lived in Meta in the Province of Naples. He is married to Fabiola Russo and has one daughter.

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There is no question of repair: instead the Costa Concordia will be towed to a facility where she can be broken up and smelted down to be recycled and re-used.

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