What do the Facebook IPO and the crash of the Costa Concordia cruise ship have in common? Proximity to danger. The Costa Concordia hit the rocky shoals off the Tuscan island of Giglio because of a small misjudgment in a routine practice. Italian cr ...
Read More 1st February, 2012 | MarketWatch Oil now leaking from stricken Carnival cruise shipCHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Oil has begun leaking from the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that foundered off the Italian coast last month, killing at least 17 and leaving another dozen or so missing, the Associated Press reports. Choppy seas are batt ...
Read More 1st February, 2012 | USATODAY.com Travel - Top Stories Oil spreading from Italy shipwreckA thin film of oil spread from the Costa Concordia cruise ship as waves battered its wreckage.
Read More 30th January, 2012 | The Wall Street Journal Tuscan Region Fears Damage to Tourism
Residents of the island of Giglio held a strategy meeting Monday as fears mounted about threats to the environment and their prized tourism industry from the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship lying off the coast.
Read More 27th January, 2012 | ABC News Radio Costa Offers $14,460 Per SurvivorAlmost two weeks after the Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed off the coast of Italy, leaving at least 16 people dead and 19 missing, Costa Cruises is offering uninjured passengers $14,460, or euro11,000 each to compensate for mental trauma and lost ...
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