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Costa offers $14,460 per person for ruined cruise (AP)

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:23:30 +0000

AP – Costa Crociere SpA is offering uninjured passengers euro11,000 ($14,460) apiece to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany when the captain deviated from his route.

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Italian islanders ache for cruise victims (AP)

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:57:18 +0000

AP – Natives of the tiny Italian island of Giglio come from hardy stock whose distant ancestors were accustomed to surviving ruthless raids by pirates and where today many eke out a living from often perilous seas.

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Italian divers find body in cruise ship corridor (AP)

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:55:56 +0000

AP – The body of a woman wearing a life vest was recovered by Italian coast guard divers Saturday from a narrow underwater corridor of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, raising the death toll to 12 in the week-old accident that has sent some light fuel spilling into the Mediterranean off Tuscany.

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Italian cruise ship may be slipping off reef as search and rescue continues for 21 missing passengers

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:31:39 +0000

The cruise captain who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 people on board did not relay correct information either to the company or crew after the ship hit rocks, the cruise ship owner’s CEO said Friday as the search resumed for 21 missing passengers.

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3 victims named from stricken Italian cruise ship (AP)

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:05:45 +0000

AP – Divers restarted the search Thursday for 21 people still missing after a cruise ship crashed into the rocky Tuscan coast, but a forecast of rough seas added uncertainty to the operation and to plans to begin pumping fuel from the stranded vessel.

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German woman is alive, cruise ship missing at 21 (AP)

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:35:54 +0000

AP – Officials say a German woman who was listed among the missing from the cruise ship grounding off Italy has been located alive in Germany, bringing the number of people still unaccounted for to 21.

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Hungarian cruise ship victim was crew violinist (AP)

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:20:56 +0000

AP – Hungary’s foreign ministry says one of the bodies recovered from the wreck of the cruise ship that ran aground off Tuscany was a Hungarian man, a musician working aboard the ship.

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Italians name 28 missing cruise passengers, crew (AP)

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:06:51 +0000

AP – Italian rescue workers suspended operations Wednesday after a stricken cruise ship shifted slightly on the rocks near the Tuscan coast, creating deep concerns about the safety of divers and firefighters searching for the 22 people still missing.

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Audio: Cruise captain pleaded not to reboard ship (AP)

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:12:03 +0000

AP – The captain of a grounded cruise ship is heard in a recording making excuses as an Italian coast guard official repeatedly orders him to get back on his crippled ship.

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Missing raised to 29 in Italian cruise disaster (AP)

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:37:14 +0000

AP – Italy’s cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis Monday, as rough seas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters off Tuscany that are part of a protected sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales.

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