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  1. FTSE 100: Carnival sails ahead as blue-chips extend gains
    The Telegraph logo The Telegraph 9 hours ago

    "Recent US macro data have been supportive, i.e. consumer spending / confidence. And the news flow from peers and Carnival executives has also been positive, all pointing to faster than expected recovery in bookings post the Concordia/Allegra issues,"... Full Article at The Telegraph

  2. Pompano firm to begin Concordia salvage within days
    South Florida Sun-Sentinel logo South Florida Sun-Sentinel 2 days ago

    Leading the project will be Pompano Beach-based Titan Salvage, who along with Italian partner Micoperi, was awarded the contract last month to refloat and remove the crippled 114,500-ton ship. The Carnival Corp.-owned Concordia overturned near the... Full Article at South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  3. AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 days ago
    Titan Salvage Managing Director Capt. Richard Habib talks to journalists at the foreign press club in Rome, Friday, May 18, 2012. The head of a U.S.-owned marine salvage company chosen to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the...

    Titan Salvage Managing Director Capt. Richard Habib talks to journalists at the foreign press club in Rome, Friday, May 18, 2012. The head of a U.S.-owned marine salvage company chosen to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the... View Photo »

  4. They're also visiting the island of Giglio to see where the Costa Concordia crashed. People have a fascination with these things.
    SOURCE: Gadling 3 weeks ago
  5. Salvage firm says Costa Concordia wreckage gone by early '13
    WTSP-TV St. Petersburgh 2 days ago

    Alex Cobb won his first start of the season, Matt Joyce hit a grand slam and ... I'll Have Another overtook Bodemeister down the stretch to win the Preakness ... ROME (AP) - The head of a U.S.-owned marine salvage company chosen to remove the wreck of... Full Article at WTSP-TV St. Petersburgh

  6. Costa Concordia to head for scrapyard
    Voice of Russia 2 days ago

    In an unprecedented effort, Italo-American consortium Titan-Micoperi will use pulling machines connected to a custom-built subsea platform to hoist the hull upright in one piece. The first step in the project, which will begin in a few days and... Full Article at Voice of Russia

  7. Costa Concordia cruise wreck getting prepped for towing
    KABC Los Angeles 3 days ago
    The Costa Concordia struck a reef near the Tuscan island of Giglio on Jan. 13, 2012, and capsized.

    (KABC) -- A very ambitious plan is under way to tow away the capsized cruise ship off Italy's coast. The Costa Concordia hit a reef Jan. 13, killing 32 people. The wreck is now on its side on rocky seabed near the port of Giglio island. Now, Florida... Full Article at KABC Los Angeles

  8. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 weeks ago
    The Costa Fascinosa, the new flagship of the Italian passenger fleet and Costa Cruises built at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, leaves Venice on May 06,2012, crossing the sea in front of St. Mark square. A huge public relations exercise marked the...

    The Costa Fascinosa, the new flagship of the Italian passenger fleet and Costa Cruises built at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, leaves Venice on May 06,2012, crossing the sea in front of St. Mark square. A huge public relations exercise marked the... View Photo »

  9. climatic change and environmental emergencies, such as storm surges and oil spills, reinforce the need for constant monitoring of our oceans. We saw this recently with the problems associated with the sinking of the ship Costa Concordia Giglio, and the loss of barrels of toxic substances from a cargo sh...
    SOURCE: Environmental Data Interactive 4 weeks ago
  10. Costa Concordia 3D Google Earth Animation
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 3 months ago
  11. Costa Concordia move could take a year
    United Press International logo United Press International 3 days ago

    Titan Salvage and Micoperi are to re-float the 950-foot Costa Concordia and remove the ship in one piece, which should minimize environmental damage. "We are very pleased to have been chosen to perform this incredible operation to remove the wreck of... Full Article at United Press International

  12. Big Costa: $300m to refloat capsized liner
    The Age logo The Age 3 days ago

    The 114,500-tonne ship, which capsized four months ago and is lying on its side in shallow water metres off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, will be pulled upright by cranes on to a submerged platform, refloated and towed to the mainland for breaking up. Full Article at The Age

  13. $300m plan to right the Concordia
    Sydney Morning Herald logo Sydney Morning Herald 3 days ago
    An oil recovery sea platform is seen next to the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 25, 2012. The captain of the Italian liner Costa Concordia said he was told by managers to take his ship close to shore on the night it ran aground and capsized, but the company denied having any prior knowledge of the manoeuvre.

    Costa Concordia ... "This is the largest ship removal by weight in history." Photo: Reuters AN ''UNPRECEDENTED'' operation to refloat and remove the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship will be the most ambitious effort of its kind ever attempted and will... Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald

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  1. Titan Salvage Managing Director Capt. Richard Habib talks to journalists at the foreign press club in Rome, Friday, May 18, 2012. The head of a U.S.-owned marine salvage company chosen to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the waters off Tuscany is predicting the...
  2. The Costa Fascinosa, the new flagship of the Italian passenger fleet and Costa Cruises built at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, leaves Venice on May 06,2012, crossing the sea in front of St. Mark square. A huge public relations exercise marked the entry into service of the 114,500...
  3. A crew member of the Costa Fascinosa, the new flagship of the Italian passenger fleet and Costa Cruises built at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, speaks during the unveiling of the ship to the public in Venice on May 5, 2012. A huge public relations exercise marked the entry into...
  4. A employee of the Costa Fascinosa, the new flagship of the Italian passenger fleet and Costa Cruises built at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, walks in a corridor of the ship, in Venice on May 5, 2012. A huge public relations exercise marked the entry into service of the 114,500 tonne...
  5. Pierluigi Foschi, Chief Executive Officer of Costa Cruises, delivers a speech during the unveiling to the public of the Costa Fascinosa, the new flagship of the Italian passenger fleet and Costa Cruises built at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, in Venice on May 5, 2012. A huge public...
  6. A picture taken on May 5, 2012 shows the Coast Fascinosa, the new flagship of the Italian passenger fleet Costa Cruises built at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, during its unveiling to the public in Venice. A huge public relations exercise marked the entry into service of the 114,500...
  7. A deck of the new flagship of the Italian passenger and Costa Cruises, built by Fincantieri in Marghera, Costa Fascinosa, as the ship was delivered on May 5, 2012 in Venice, from where she will leave for her first cruise on May 6. A huge public relations exercise marked the entry into...
  8. An interior view of the euro 510-million ($670-million) Costa Fascinosa cruise ship, that with a capacity of 3,800 passengers is now the largest Italian-flagged cruise ship, is seen on the occasion of its unveiling in Venice, Italy, Saturday, May 5, 2012. Italian cruise line Costa...
  9. Costa Group CEO Pier Luigi Foschi, second from left, meets the media on the occasion of the unveiling of the euro 510-million ($670-million) Costa Fascinosa, that with a capacity of 3,800 passengers is now the largest Italian-flagged cruise ship, in Venice, Italy, Saturday, May 5, 2012.

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  1. They're also visiting the island of Giglio to see where the Costa Concordia crashed. People have a fascination with these things.
    SOURCE: Gadling 3 weeks ago
  2. climatic change and environmental emergencies, such as storm surges and oil spills, reinforce the need for constant monitoring of our oceans. We saw this recently with the problems associated with the sinking of the ship Costa Concordia Giglio, and the loss of barrels of toxic substances from a cargo sh...
    SOURCE: Environmental Data Interactive 4 weeks ago
  3. Removal of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship from the Tuscany coastline is one of the largest undertakings of its kind – this is a massive and complex operation which the entire world will be watching.
    SOURCE: PR Newswire 4 weeks ago
  4. The plan to upright the capsized craft; then slowly tow it to a port near Rome could take more than a year to complete ... Because of the magnitude of this project, unlike other salvage operations – and because the cruise ship is so close to land, – the Costa Concordia requires special attention to the ...
    SOURCE: PR Newswire 4 weeks ago
  5. The Costa Concordia is a massive, international assignment that will involve hundreds of personnel including naval architects and engineers, highly experienced salvage masters and a variety of specialists such as environmental consultants
    SOURCE: Street Insider 4 weeks ago
  6. We never thought a cruise ship would run aground and people would die and they're pretty safe vessels, yet we see the Costa Concordia running aground (off the Italian coast)
    SOURCE: North Shore News 1 month ago
  7. Today we received confirmation that our parents, Gerald and Barbara Heil, have been positively identified as two of the five missing passengers recovered from the Costa Concordia several weeks ago. We will now be able to move forward and bring them home to rest.
    SOURCE: CBS2 Chicago 1 month ago
  8. Five bodies recovered from the Costa Concordia have been identified
    SOURCE: KARE | Minneapolis & St. Paul 1 month ago
  9. More Costa Concordia victims identified
    SOURCE: American Banking and Market News 1 month ago
  10. We identified the last five bodies recovered after the sinking of the Costa Concordia
    SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph 1 month ago
  11. Le navire Oasis of the Sea , ici en photo, est plus grand (360 mètres) que la Tour Eiffel et le Costa Concordia (290 mètres)
    SOURCE: The Huffington Post 1 month ago
  12. I like to think that if the Captain of the Costa Concordia had been British he would have behaved with the same distinction as Edward Smith.
    SOURCE: Globe and Mail 1 month ago
  13. The media tend to lose interest in cruise safety a few days after the latest accident ... But to prevent the next Costa Concordia from taking place, not to mention the routine abuses to cruise workers and the ocean ecosystem, cruise passengers must demand accountability and sweeping industrywide change....
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 1 month ago
  14. But as we saw, cruise-liners also have difficulty surviving a breach in the hull ... If fact, the [Costa Concordia] sank much quicker and in a more dangerous way than the Titanic, because it capsized.
    SOURCE: Deutsche Welle 1 month ago
  15. Resolve Marine Group is among the contenders to lead the salvage and recovery operations for the Costa Concordia
    SOURCE: Street Insider 1 month ago
  16. This example is in stark contrast to what occurred earlier this year when the captain of the Costa Concordia went AWOL and failed to act with manly propriety and self-sacrifice when his ship foundered — a sad sign of our times, as men today prefer to shirk responsibility rather than sacrifice for those ...
    SOURCE: Lifenews.com 1 month ago
  17. With this Costa Concordia I think what they're doing in a way is making the same mistake they made back in 1912. They're thinking that because of modern technology they can do this, they can do that.
    SOURCE: Hamilton Spectator 1 month ago
  18. If the Costa Concordia tragedy or something similar happened this Sunday, we would definitely be forced to pull Titanic. There are occasions when we could risk losing or alienating viewers by showing something inappropriate at the time of an international tragedy
    SOURCE: Independent.ie 1 month ago
  19. What's new is the impact of the Costa Concordia tragedy on absolutely every corner of cruising I can think of for the time being ... That's not something we certainly want to write about or cover or hear about — but the trend as a result of that is the emphasis on safety and security.
    SOURCE: Deseret News 2 months ago
  20. The reliability and expertise of our company are shown by the professionalism with which we manage projects like this one ... I wish to reiterate that the Costa Concordia incident was a one-off extraordinary event, extremely serious but unrepeatable, and I wish to express our condolences to the families...
    SOURCE: Cruise Diva 2 months ago
  21. After the tragic incident involving the Costa Concordia we took immediate action to guarantee the least possible environmental impact and protect the environment of Giglio and the island’s economy and tourism industry, working productively and in full cooperation with the Emergency Commissioner’s Office...
    SOURCE: Cruise Diva 2 months ago
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  24. laser systems that measure millimetric shifts in the Costa Concordia shipwreck and 24-hour surveillance by the Italian coast guard and police
    SOURCE: Cruise Diva 2 months ago
  25. One of the hallmarks of our industry ... is that we treat every tragedy like the Costa Concordia as a profound reminder of our duty to put ourselves under a microscope so we can continuously improve our practices, procedures and performance.
    SOURCE: Business Wire 2 months ago

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