Posted on 14 January 2012. Tags: abandon ship, Carnival Corporation, casualties, Costa Cociere, Costa Concordia, cruise deaths, cruise ship hits rocks, cruise ship sinking, deaths at sea, Giglio, grounded, Italian cruising, Italy, life boat drill, life boats, ship rescue, tragedy at sea
This statement is from Carnival Corporation & plc in Miami, FL. Carnival Corporation & plc is the parent company of Costa Cruises. On January 13, 2012, Costa Cruises’ vessel, the Costa Concordia, departed from Civitavecchia, Italy with approximately 3,200…
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Posted on 08 July 2008. Tags: abandon ship, Alaska, cruise accidents, cruise ship grounded, Cruise West, Spirit of Glacier Bay, Spirit of Nantucket
Cruise West is getting a de ja vu experience all over again with one of its ships. Yesterday, the Spirit of Glacier Bay became grounded in Tarr Inlet near Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park. Spirit of Glacier Bay was formerly known as Spirit of Nantucket — the same ship that last November hit debris and began taking on water on an intercoastal waterway near Virginia Beach, Virginia. Read for more details…
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