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Who was the last body found on the Costa Concordia?

ROME ? The last missing person from the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia was finally accounted for on Monday when workers dismantling the hulk found the remains of Russel Rebello, a waiter on the ship.



The last body recovered from the wreck of the Costa Concordia was that of Russel Rebello, a 33-year-old waiter from India. His remains were discovered in November 2014, nearly three years after the ship ran asunder off the coast of Giglio, Italy, in January 2012. His body was found by salvage workers as they were dismantling the vessel in the port of Genoa. Rebello was hailed as a hero; survivors reported that he stayed behind to help passengers into lifeboats and even gave up his own life jacket to save another person. He was the final of the 32 victims to be accounted for, bringing a somber sense of closure to the families and the international community. His discovery was a technically difficult feat, as his remains were located in a cabin on the eighth deck that had been submerged and crushed under the weight of the ship's debris for years.

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Almost three years after the sinking of the luxury liner, the Costa Concordia, the body of the last person unaccounted for, namely Indian waiter Russel Rebello, was found today.

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Russel Rebello, an Indian waiter, is the last person still missing from the disaster on 13 January 2012. Thirty one others are known to have died during or after the chaotic evacuation of the vessel.

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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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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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A handful of surviving passengers of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship filed a lawsuit against the cruise line on Friday, the same day the company offered each of the hundreds who'd been aboard the vessel a lump sum of 11,000 euros ($14,400).

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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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GROSSETO, Italy – The Italian court trying the captain of the Costa Concordia heard grim details Wednesday 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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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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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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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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On 1 February 2014 a Spanish diver working on the Costa Concordia wreck died after cutting his leg on a sheet of metal. He was brought to the surface alive by a fellow diver, but later died. This was the only death to occur during the Costa Concordia salvage operation.

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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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The Concordia was slightly larger (952 feet to the Titanic's 883 feet) and both had a top speed of 23 knots. Both had issues with their christening, and believers in superstition might attribute the ships' tragedies to it.

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Cruise ships are designed to be incredibly safe and reliable, so thankfully they don't sink very often. In fact, the last major cruise ship sinking was in 2012 when the Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Italy.

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The sinking of RMS Titanic in April 1912 remains the worst, and the most infamous, cruise ship disaster in history. The sinking of the biggest passenger ship ever built at the time resulted in the death of more than 1,500 of the 2,208 people onboard.

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On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Tuscany after hitting a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Francesco Schettino, the captain of the cruise liner, was jailed for 16 years for multiple manslaughter after the disaster that left 32 people dead.

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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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The last body missing following the crash of the vessel was discovered today. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Files/Reuters. Almost three years after the sinking of the luxury liner, the Costa Concordia, the body of the last person unaccounted for, namely Indian waiter Russel Rebello, was found today.

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