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New titanic sinks

Sunday, 15 January 2012 11:17 Written by kate Gibson

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Costa Concordia: new titanic sinks

On Friday night more than 4,000 people were evacuated from Costa Concordia, when this new titanic ran aground off the coast of Tuscany. It has been confirmed that a Peruvian crew member and two French passengers are dead. Also 38 people of the ship were still missing. Here is the album of this gigantic accident.

The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans after it ran aground off the coast of Isola del Giglio island, Italy, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats early Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012
Passengers wear life-vests on board the Costa Concordia as they wait to be evacuated in this photo supplied a passenger.
Passengers are seen in a rescue boat after their cruise ship ran aground in Italy.
Members of emergency services carry an injured passenger to a waiting ambulance after the person was evacuated from the cruise ship.
Emergency services workers take a stretchered injured passenger to a waiting ambulance after the person was evacuated from the ship.
Yet another injured passenger is transported to an ambulance by emergency services in the wake of the cruise ship crash early Saturday morning.
A police officer holds a baby wrapped in a blanket as evacuated passengers arrive on a ferry in Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. Passengers were forced to abandon their cruise ship after the hull was gashed and the boat began taking in water
Passengers from the stricken cruise ship wear life-vests and blankets as they wait to disembark.
The cruise ship, seen off the Italian coast, appears to have tipped over after it ran aground.
A close-up view of the huge gash in the hull of the cruise ship after it ran aground.
A large rock is embedded in the hull of the ship.
dazed passengers are treated in Savona.
The cruise ship that ran aground is seen off the west coast of Italy as a helicopter hovers above to try and find passengers
The Costa Concordia after the evacuation off the Itaiian coast had been completed. Tonight Captain Francesco Schettino was being quizzed by police
Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground and keeled over off the Italian coast near the island of Giglio in Tuscany, Italy, last night
Italian Coast Guard personnel recover the black box from the Costa Condordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy
Waiting game: Hundreds of passengers in life jackets are pictured on board the Costa Concordia on Friday night as they wait to be rescued from the stricken vessel
Screams: Rescue workers heard this South Korean man and his wife screaming and took 90 minutes to free them. The 29-year-old is pictured getting off a ferry to safety
Danger: Italian firefighters' scuba divers approach the Costa Concordia as they prepare to enter it to track down survivors and any of the 40 missing people
The Concordia's grounding should serve as a wake-up call to the shipping industry and those who regulate it, the maritime professionals' union Nautilus International said
Passengers spoke of having to crawl along near vertical hallways and stairwells to escape the ship as it began to take on more and more water