The Costa Concordia disaster began early in 2012. The story captured the attention of many because of the actions of the captain, and the environmental and human impact of such a massive disaster.
The Trevignon, a 300-foot French fishing vessel, is currently towing the stricken Italian Costa Allegra cruise ship toward a small resort island.
The Trevignon, a large French fishing vessel, had a fire in their engine room and can only rely on emergency batteries.

The massive cruise liner is balancing on two rocks and has massive cracks.

Underwater footage taken by a remotely operated vehicle shows crumbling rocks and new deformation of the Concordia wreck.
A shocking video reveals a disturbingly calm Captain Francesco Schettino after the Concordia struck a reef.

The razor-like rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio have taken down more than a dozen ancient ships.

The capsized Concordia is shifting closer to a dangerous drop off as workers scramble to contain contamination.

Heavy weather forced salvage crews to suspend pumping thousands of tonnes of fuel from the wrecked Costa Concordia liner Saturday.
Stories of courage and heroism aboard the stricken luxury cruiser Costa Concordia are beginning to emerge in stark contrast with the behavior of the captain Francesco Schettino.

The long process will involve chains, pulleys and plugging a giant hole and could take several weeks.
In a race against time, rescue divers resumed on Sunday the search of the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner.

SOPA, PIPA and the Costa Concordia disaster.

As the Titanic-like image of the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship continues to haunt the landscape off the Tuscany island of Giglio.

Fears rose of an environmental disaster from a wrecked cruise ship in an area of outstanding natural beauty in Italy on Tuesday.

In case there is any doubt about the size of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia and the scale of the problem rescue crews face... the disaster can be seen from space.

The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia allegedly abandoned ship -- like many captains before him.

The Italian ship apparently hit a reef on Friday, killing at least 3 people, leaving 70 unaccounted for.

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