Costa Concordia disaster Wikipedia
Table Of Content Peacetime disasters Museums keep Titanic's memory alive Around 100 cruise passengers injured after ship gets caught in rough weather How the Wreck of a Cruise Liner Changed an Italian Island Thousands of artifacts have been salvaged Videos showed the Carnival Sunshine cabins and hallways flooding and ceilings leaking While still a tragic event in which 46 passengers and crew lost their lives, the sinking of the Andrea Doria demonstrated the impact that safety improvements had made to ships since the sinking of the Titanic. She sank in 1927 off the coast of Brazil when a propeller shaft broke and damaged the hull of the ship. She sank slowly, but there was some confusion on board which meant that 314 people died of the 1,252 passengers and crew on the ship. Due to the size of the explosion and the speed of listing, only six lifeboats could be launched, and in total 1,198 passengers and crew lost their lives, with 764 survivors. In the last 50 years, there have b...