Was the captain of the Costa Concordia drunk?

Costa Concordia: captain drank alcohol with 'beautiful' woman prior to crash. The captain who steered his 114,000-tonne vessel into rocks off the Italian coast last Friday was drinking wine at dinner with a beautiful woman minutes earlier, a witness has claimed.



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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.

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During Schettino's trial, Costa told the Florence court it had paid out 84 million euros in compensation to passengers, crew and relatives of the 32 dead, according to Italian media reports at the time. But a small percentage of people refused the compensation package and pursued lawsuits.

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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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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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Capsized and partially sank in 2012 off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany. Salvaged in 2014 and subsequently scrapped in Genoa, Italy in 2017.

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The Italian court trying the captain of the Costa Concordia has heard grim details about how the 32 victims of the shipwreck drowned, some after diving or falling into the sea from the capsized cruise liner when lifeboats were no longer accessible.

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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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The helmsman, Jacob Rusli Bin, is one of five Costa Crociere SpA employees who were granted plea bargains in return for mild sentences in a separate proceeding. He was convicted of manslaughter and causing the shipwreck, and was given a sentence of one year and 8 months.

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GIGLIO, Italy — Search crews found five more bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which struck a reef off an Italian island in January, officials said Thursday. The discovery raises to 30 the number of bodies found. Two people remain missing and are presumed dead.

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