Sunken liners. Costa Concordia (Costa Concordia) - the last cruise of the mediterranean liner

Not so long ago, one of the most expensive and unprecedented projects in history was completed, which cost 600 million euros, more than 500 people from 24 countries around the world were involved - lifting the cruise liner Costa Concordia., Partly sunken near the shores of Tuscany (Gilo Island).

Such an operation is almost unprecedented. Cases when such a number of forces were used, you can recalculate on your fingers. However, neither risks associated with the lifting liner nor its high costs did not lay the confidence of engineers in the fact that the rise is necessary.

Costa Concordia crash history

On January 13, 2012, the liner went on the course of the route 7 Night Winter Mediterranean, which involves exit from the port of Civitaveccia to Savona, the last cruise suggested a liner at the Barcelona ports, Marseille and several other Italian ports.

January 13, 2012, 22:00 Seth ship was near the island of Gielo (Tuscany, Italy), most of Passengers at this time dinner in the restaurant. It was then that Costa Concordia appeared on the reef, as a result of which she got a hole about 30 meters. The rescue operation began.

From this point on, differences begins between the participants of the events - passengers and the personnel of the liner. It is worth noting that all data can be interpreted from the position of individual people, with the positions of these many (if not to say that almost everyone has its own), but the essence, nevertheless, one. As they tell the victims in the crash, after the collision, the ship was tilted, causing a panic from most passengers, the reaction of the captain of the ship did not make himself wait for a long time and the loudsight were announced about the problems with the liner generator.

Despite the fact that the events will continue to develop not for the better, the captain of the vessel continues to adhere to this point of view. Despite this, the evacuation continues and passengers are massively going near the boats. As many passengers say, it was not possible to organize a calm load on the boat of the liner's staff. According to the investigation, which was held later, it turned out that the captain of the ship is Cettino, left the vessel among the first.

After loading on the boat and the descent on the water, the staff and passengers were transported to the shore, where the victim was rendered to the first suture assistance. It is worth noting help local residentswhich provided passengers with warm things, food and allocated places for overnight. Passengers occupied schools, church and hotels.

Victims of Cruise Liner Cruise Liner Concordia

On the morning of January 14, 2012 Costa Concordia went on the right side, touching the bottom. The search engines of missing are organized.

At the time of January 17, the number of victims was 11 people, as well as 25 people were listed in the missing lists. By the beginning of February, search engines in the flooded part of the ship were stopped due to risk for scuba wheels conducting search and rescue work. And by the end of March, data on the 30 dead and two missing missions were obtained.

Causes of the accident passenger liner and the punishment of the perpetrators

As the result found out, the cause of the accident was the collision of the liner with the reef, among other things, they do not exclude, the technical failure of the equipment of the liner. Outmunted experts the fact that in despite the fact that the liner passes 52 times a year by this route, there was a deviation from the course by 3-4 miles. You can explain like the initial statements by the captain liner Francesco Sketino, who spoke that shifting aside coastline He wanted to greet his acquaintance (former captain of Costa Concordia), who lives on the island. However, in the future, Skettino refused its testimony and moved the blame on the company's manager, which, according to him, insisted that the ship would come closer to the shore.

The decoding of a black box showed that the ship was too close to the shore, the beginning of evacuation took place too late, in addition, the captain did not file a distress signal than delayed the beginning rescue operation. Until July 17, 2013, Skettino was under house arrest under the court order. On the this moment There is a court proposed by the prosecutor - 2697 years in prison.

Liquidation of the consequences and lift of Costa Concordia

Already three days after the crash of the ship, an oil liquid began to flow from the vessel, the experts reassured the public with assurances that it was not fuel. Fuel pumping began, as it was the likelihood that the ship will slip from the cliff. If this happened, more than 2000 tons could be in the sea. Naturally, such a perspective did not cause smiles. However, on March 24, it was announced that the fuel was groaned, and just a month later, a tender was held on the rise and evacuation of the vessel who won the Titan Salvage company.

The lifting plan of the vessel is quite simple, but it demanded significant investments, and the operation itself was associated with a high risk of event failures, which did not speak both the company's engineers and leading experts. In mid-2013, work continues to prepare the lifting of the vessel.

September 16 at 9 am, an operation on the rise of Costa Concordia was launched. The liner is 290 meters, the roll angle was 70 degrees, and the water level is 20 meters. The planned time of operation ideally - 12 hours. Below is a graphic lifting plan of the liner.

On September 17, after 19 hours, the operation finally ended successfully, it was possible to bring the vessel to the horizontal position. According to the results of the operation, Franco Gorelaki, Vice-President of Arnival Corporation reported that everything went perfectly, and most importantly, it was not observed by harming the ecology. However, despite the fact that the rise has completed successfully, the specialists do not consider properly relax and remind that this is not the end. In the spring, the liner will have to be transported to the shipyard, where the Costa Concordia disassemble.

Secrets of sunken ships

Sunken ships were always surrounded by halo. There are many stories and legends about them, and the treasure hunters are trying to find treasures that went under water with ships. But even if it is known accurate place Shipwrecks, it is impossible to get to the sunken ship. In our review, little-known and very entertaining facts about sunken ships.

Fight at the island of Samar

During the battle with the island of SAMAR, the American destroyer attacked the Japanese fleet and in unequal battle caused so much harm that before he was flooded, all passing by Japanese ships salted the destroyer.

2. Treasure Hunter Tommy Thompson

Tommy Thompson Treasure Hunter

In 1987, Tommy Thompson Treasure Hunter found a ship named " Central America", Which sank over a hundred years ago. After the ship was raised from the ship by almost $ 1 billion, Tommy disappeared and no one had ever seen him.

3. Ship-territory

Ship-territory

One of the few things that prevent China's claims to all of the South China Sea is partially sunken ship of the Second World War, which the United States was transferred to the Philippines. Because of this, the Philippines also retain claims to this territory.

4. Flooded Fleet

Floated fleet

Instead of conveying your fleet to the Nazis, the Danes preferred to flood most of their ships.

5. Wollad Voltemeada

Wollad Woltemade

In 1773, Voltead Woltemade, a farmer from the surroundings of Cape Town, went to the horse to save sailors from the side of the sinking vessel. He did the way there and back 6 times, and on the 7th time his horse was too tired and Wollad drowned.

6. Pilotous torpedoes

Pilotous torpedoes

During World War II, the Japanese used the torpedoes manned boring bombers who called Kaiten.

7. Non-optable Sam.

Unprobed by Sam.

Uncomplyed Sam is a cat who officially listed on various ships during World War II. The three of these vessel sank, but the cat survived every time.

8. Ferry "MS Estonia"

Ferry MS Estonia

MS Estonia is a ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994. It was impossible to raise it on the surface, so do not disturb the remains of the dead, the ship was poured with concrete and banned the immersion to the crash site.

9. Collision of trains with a ship

Train Collision with Ship

The only famous clash of the train with the ship, which led to the flooding of the ship, occurred in Newcastle shortly after the opening of the Victoria tunnel.

10. Vesunchik Atkins

Vesunchik Atkins

In 1703, Thomas Atkins demolished the wave from the deck of a sinking ship. He was picked up from the water, but the second wave washed away Thomas from the side of the rescue boat.

11. Submarine "Tenge"

Submarine tenge

"Tang" has become one of the most successful American submarines during World War II. But in the end, she sank from his own torpedo.

12. $ 4 billion on the construction of the ship

$ 4 billion to build a ship

In 1974, the CIA spent almost $ 4 billion to the construction of a ship equipped with almost 5 kilometer primers to raise the stentest Soviet submarine.

13. Swedish ship "Vasa"

Swedish ship Vasa

Wasa, the Swedish ship, which sank in 1628, was built using two two measurement systems (Swedish feet (0.297m) and Amsterdam feet (0.283 m).

14. Karl von Muller

Karl von Muller

Karl von Muller, German captain during World War I always warned the passengers of the ship, which was going to sink, and provided them with enough time to leave the ship.

15. Steamer "Sultansh"

Steamer Sultansh

The shipwreck "Titanic" was not the largest in the United States from the point of view of human victims. In 1865, the steamer "Sultansh", which was transported from the south of the soldiers of Northerners liberated from captivity, sank on the Mississippi River. More than 1,700 people died.

16. Kok in air pocket

Kok in air pocket

Kocyir "Jascon 4" survived after the shipwreck and spent in the air pocket on the sunken ship for 3 days. After that, it was found divers.

17. Cause of death - toilet

Cause of Death - Toilet

The German submarine U-1206 sank during water descent due to a faulty toilet.

18. Wilhelm Gustloff Liner

Liner Wilhelm Gustloff

High sea catastrophe In world history there was a flooding of Wilhelm Gustloff liner as a result of a torpedo attack. More than 9,000 people died.

19. Full history of the death of lost

The full story of the death of lost

Unfortunately, the full history of the death of Wilhelm Gustlofa was lost in history for several reasons, most significant of which is what it happened during World War II, and it was a German ship.

20. Eastern US Coast

Eastern coast of the USA

W. eastern coast The United States has more than 20 sunken German submarines.

21. Submarine "Kursk"

Submarine Kursk

In 2000, the Russian submarine "Kursk" (K-141) sank as a result of which the entire crew died. All attempts of rescue operations (Kursk found lying on a ground at a depth of 108 meters) were not crowned with success.

22. Captain John Paul Jones

Captain John Paul Jones

In 1779, the captain of the United States John Paul Jones refused to surrender to the British. After the fire and vessel originated on his ship and the ship began to sink, Jones was able to moor to the British ship and capture him.

23. Guitarist Moss Hills

Guitarist Moss Hills.

When the cruise ship "Oceanos" began to be sinking in 1991, the crew of the ship did off the duties to save people. SOS signal was transferred to guitarist Moss Hills.

24. Liner "Empress Ireland"

Liner Empress Ireland

Just two years after the death of the "Titanic", the "Empress Ireland" liner sank in the river of St. Lawrence. In this case, more than a thousand people died. But because of the First World War, few people found out about this story.

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In March 2016, researchers from Northern Ireland And Belgium shared with the world with their discovery: it turns out that by analyzing pictures from satellites, you can find places of ancient shipwrecks. Even a nondescript boat underwater is shrouded in a variety of secrets and legends, and therefore he enters and attracts attention that it did not receive "during life."

Each diver dreams among the wreckage of sunken vessels. There is even a separate direction - REC-diving (from English Wreck - "shipwreck"). While scientists analyze snapshots from space and try to identify new locations of sunken ships (and there are no $ 3 million), we will tell about places and courts, go to explore which can already be now, - from tourist attractions to dives requiring long-term training.

Schooner "SweepTakes"

Ontario Lake, Canada

You can see the outlines of this schooner, without even plunging into the water. Built in 1867 in Burlington for the transport of coal, it served less than 20 years and crashed during a storm. The ship "SWEEPSTAKES" was not able to be fixed was later towed to the bay, where he plunged under water. Now he lies at a depth of only 7 meters from the surface of the transparent Lake Ontario in Canada and is the main attraction of the National Marine Park Fata Fairy. You can consider schoonk closer and you can both beginnings-divers, and those who are fond of snorkeling. Such dives are regulated by the schedule, since those who want to look at the ship through a transparent bottom tourist boats Also a lot.

Schooner "Sweepstakes"

But to study the inner premises and swim between the debris will not work. The vessel is 36 meters long from the inside with metal cables and is surrounded by a wire fence to prevent destruction, which is faster under water faster and faster. Despite this, today SWeepstakes is considered one of the best of all the XIX century Schhun.

How to get: By the aircraft from Moscow to Toronto, then the bus to the city of Tobermans, from where expeditions and cruises start.

Ferry "Zenobia"

City of Larnaca, Cyprus

Each tourist resting in Cyprus, travel agents are offered to go on a sea walk with the ability to take a look at the Swedish ferry "Zenobia" in 1980. The boat stops not far from the crash site, where everyone can swim in the mask and flippers. However, you can even see the outline of the vessel even from the aircraft located to Larnaca.

The 172-meter cargo ferry was never able to complete his first swimming from Sweden to Syria: not far from Cyprus, he began to roll into the left side and eventually gradually plunged on the bottom. According to one version, it happened due to the fault of the onboard computers. However, oddly enough, some people converge in the opinion that the ferry was flooded deliberately to get insurance.

The ship sank along with all the cargo value of 200 million pounds, which remained practically intact. And it is not surprising that already a couple of dozen years here, those who wish to explore the inner premises of the vessel and scattered along the bottom of the freight cars, among which there are even blue "Lada".

And if you get into the engine room or immerse yourself to the left side, lying at a depth of 42 meters, without serious training, it is impossible to get to the right side of the power and beginners with minimal immersion experience. Just need to fall to a depth of 18 meters. Yes, at dive, it is really "just". Those who are not going to dive can go to Zenobia on a tourist submarine with the portholes. Cost - from 70 euros per maritime walk to 250 per special REC-immersion.

How to get: Airplane from Moscow to Larnaca. Cruises to the vessel are also organized from Limassol.

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Passenger steamer "Baron Gautsch"

Rovinj city, Croatia

Built as a passenger, this vessel was used during World War II for the transport of ammunition and refugee transportation. The tragedy happened in 1914, when the "Baron Gauch" blew up on Mine. Of the 336 passengers managed to save less than half, and the bodies of the fallen are found over 100 years after the catastrophe. Now the place of the crash has the status of military burial, and therefore it is forbidden to immerse themselves to him. Only a few dive clubs are licensed.

The steamer rests in a vertical position at a depth of 40 meters near the coast of the Croatian city of Rovinj. The cost of immersion will be 45 euros if there are 40 dives in the logbook.

How to get: Airplane from Moscow to the city of Pula, then by bus to the city of Rovinj.

Underwater Cemetery of the Japanese Fleet

Chuch Islands (Other Truck Name), Micronesia

See the world's largest underwater cemetery military equipment You can in Micronesia. Until 1944, Japanese military bases were located in the area of \u200b\u200bTruk Islands, which during World War II were completely destroyed by American bombers. And now at the bottom of the lagoon you can see the variety of fleet of the country ascending sun: tankers, cruisers, submarines, destroyers.

The possibility of dive is greatly simplified due to the fact that the ships rest on the shallow water, so the diver without serious experience can go to the study of fragments. Or even see entire vessels - some of them are completely preserved.

Just at a depth of 9 meters you can see the nose of one of the most large ships. It is better to do it in winter and spring, the rest of the rain and high waves make somewhat hammer diving. Cost - from $ 3195 for a week cruise on the lagoon.

How to get: By aircraft from Moscow through Honolulu to Guam, from there by plane to the islands of Chuch. Cruises start from the city of Vo on.

Passenger-cargo ship "Yongala"

City of Er, Australia

Rack diving, and at the same time to see the most famous Marine Park of the world in the Australian state of Queensland. In 1911, near the city of Er during the transition from Melbourne to Cairns, heavy storm And as a result, the 110-meter Australian vessel "Yongala" was crashed. None of 122 passengers survived. Now the steamer rests at a depth of 30 meters (some sections at a depth of 16 meters) and is one of them the largest sunken historical ships. The vessel was made to the register of the historical values \u200b\u200bof Queensland, which means that it is impossible to visit its inner premises.

However, divers from all over the world does not stop. The housing of the steamer lying near the Large protected UNESCO Barrier Reefa, hurt corals and became a challenge of various marine inhabitants. Here you can admire the groups and skates, octopus, turtles, barrags and giant Australian quaranks. The cost of such an adventure begins from 160 dollars for a one-day walk with two dives.

How to get: The aircraft from Moscow with a change in Sydney to the town of Townsville, then by bus to the city of Er.

Frigate 365 (otherwise "CAPTAIN KEITH TIBBETTS")

Cayman Islands, United Kingdom

Not always the story of sunken ships is connected with the catastrophes and the death of passengers. At the bottom of the seas and oceans, there are many ships flooded specifically to create artificial reefs or for the sake of experiments. One of these and is a military frigate 365. This vessel was built in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, and after the collapse of the USSR, the Navy was transferred to the Navy. The ship turned out to be nobody necessary and after 10 years was acquired by the Government of the Cayman Islands and flooded in order to clarify the weak points of the courts during the crash.

Today, the frigate, split into two parts, lies on the sandy day Caribbean At a depth of 27 meters. The high aluminum content in the housing will help him remain a favorite object for Rack diving - because of this, he is very slow rust. Yes, and an attractive price of $ 65 for one dive (though, not including equipment) also leaves submariners indifferent.

How to get: By the aircraft from Moscow to Miami, then the aircraft to the island of Cayman is a marriage, from where dive cruises are organized.

Dry cargo "ss thistlegorm"

Red Sea, Egypt

An alternative to the traditional, "seal", rest on Egyptian beaches can be Rack diving. Moreover, the bottom of the Red Sea is littered with ships that sunk, hitting the storm, strong wind, faced dangerous currents or stumbled upon reefs. And transparency and comfortable water temperature round year Add glasses in favor of dives.

Perhaps the most attractive vessel for divers is the British military cargo ship "Tystlegorm". Built in 1940, he already across the German aviation in Suez Channel. The whole provisional for the British army, which transported the ship - firearms, motorcycles, jeeps, soldiers' ammunition, went to the bottom and to this day is in the trums of the ship. According to Egyptian laws, these artifacts are strictly prohibited from the bottom of the sea. Immersion at "Tystallm" will cost $ 80.

How to get: Airplane from Moscow to Sharm el-Sheikh. Excursions with dives are also organized from Hurghada.

Cruise liner "Andrea Doria"

Massachusetts, United States

The story with sunken in 1956 after a collision with the "Stockholm" ship "Andrea Doria" is considered one of the most successful rescue operations. Of the 1076 passengers who were on board, only those who suffered in a collision were killed - 46 people.

Not only is the immersion on the ship - the pleasure is not cheap (about 3,500 dollars), so the presence of the required amount does not guarantee you through this steamer. Yes, and not every professional diver will dare to dive into the ship, taking into account all the circumstances: a depth of 75 meters, water temperature within 6 degrees and strong ocean flows. Additional complexity - to get to the vessel is possible only in a limited period of time - in the summer months.

However, the true lovers of swimming among the wreckage does not stop - the first divers went to explore the liner on the same day after the catastrophe. Since then, at least 17 professional divers laundered to Doria: someone is entangled in the wiring, others got lost in the ships maze.

Experienced divers admit that the magic "Everest shipwrecks", as "Andrea Doria" called, disappeared. If 30 years ago it was still possible to dive between the decks and find porcelain dishes in the luxury cabins, then every year the vessel collapses and loses its integrity. If it does not stop you, you can contact one of the private companies that organize expeditions to the ship.

How to get: Airplane from Moscow to Boston, from there in the organized expedition.

Steamer "Lenin"

Balaklava city, Russia

You can watch the sunken ships and without issuing a visa. Over the past few years, Crimean divers found at the bottom of the Black Sea in the Balaclava district, a submarine cemetery, on which wooden sailboats, submarines, ancient gallery and other vessels are resting at different depths. Among them, the very bloody history is allocated a steamer "Lenin". The tragic vessel was even dubbed the Black Sea "Titanic" by the number of human lives on the bottom.

Built in Danzig in 1909 as a cargo-passenger vessel, the motor ship performed its functions up to the beginning of World War II. In July 1941, as part of Conv, he left Sevastopol in Yalta, but in the area of \u200b\u200bCara Sarych "Lenin" blew up on his own, Soviet, mines and sank in a few minutes. The boats from other vessels saved around the six hundred people, the exact number of dead is unknown - according to some calculations, the number of victims reaches 2000.

Soon after the catastrophe, the Military Tribunal of the Black Sea Fleet sentenced Lenin's Lotsmana Lieutenant I. I. whistled to the highest punishment - shooting. In the 90s, when the case materials about the feast of the steamer were declassified, it was rehabilitated posthumously.

Today, divers from all over the world are ready to go on studies of the sunken ship, but will be discharged to such units. Not only is the steamer lies at a depth of 94 meters and the immersion requires serious physical fitness, and the water here heats up to a maximum of 8 degrees. But those who are solved, do not remain indifferent: almost 95 meters long on the vessel can be penetrated into almost all the premises, and through the hole in the left board you can get into the engine room. You can only carry out such immersion through the offices involved in technical diving.

How to get: Airplane from Moscow to Sevastopol, then by bus to Balaklava.

Passenger steamer "Titanic"

Newfindland Island, Canada

No matter how incredibly it sounded, but it is also possible to swim among the wreckage of the legendary "Titanic". It took more than a hundred years from the moment, as in 1912, after a collision with the drifting iceberg, the largest passenger ship of the beginning of the 20th century went to the bottom. The catastrophe claimed the lives of more than one and a half thousand people, and now many historians speak out against dives to this ship, explaining their discontent with the clearing and garbage that expeditions are accompanied. Not to mention the disrespect for the memory of the dead - there were cases when people concluded a marriage on the sunken "Titanic."

All these ethical prohibitions are not at all embarrassing those who want to touch the legend. The expeditions lasting for two weeks take place every few years, and the company engaged in their organization takes almost 60 thousand dollars for its services.

Flights to "Titanic" Celdysh vessel. Previously, it was used in research and research purposes, and now transports tourists and scientists to the death of the liner.

"Titanic"

The steamer rests at the foremost depth of 3750 meters, so the immersion on it passes on the deep-water devices "Peace". Up to three people can be inside the Batiscopa, and one of them is a pilot. The rest of the space is filled with wires, connections and parts of the camcorder. At about 12 o'clock, 7 of which divers are carried out at the bottom, and the remaining 5 are needed for descent and lifting. When examined, it can be seen that the feed is completely broken, the captain's bridge is destroyed, the ship itself is broken into two parts, and the remnants of furniture, dishes, shoes and other personal belongings are scattered around. The organizers argue that during their expeditions since 1998 no artifact was raised from the bottom of the ocean. Scientists say that "Titanic" will not live to its next, 150-year anniversary.

How to get: Airplane from Moscow to Saint Jones Airport (about. Newfoundland, Canada).

The Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia failed after hitting the reef at the Jilo Island on January 13, 2012, as a result of which 32 passengers and crew member were killed. 613 days after the disaster began work on the raising of the vessel. A comprehensive rescue operation "Parbuckling" became the largest and most expensive in history: its cost was $ 800 million, and long months went to prepare. In fact, the operation ranked 19 hours, and after its completion, the liner took a vertical position for joyful cries of the crowd of the crowd.

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1. View of Costa Concordia, after the ship was stranded and fell on the side near the coast of Isola del Gilo, January 14, 2012.

Costa Concordia sunken on January 13 last year at the Italian Island of Gielo. The ship, on board which there were several thousand people, rushed to the reef due to the fact that the captain of the ship Francesco Sketino decided to come closer to the shore to greet his acquaintance.

During the crash of the liner, 30 people were killed, two more people are missing. More than 4 thousand people were evacuated, among them there are victims.

Costa Concordia has become the largest passenger ship in history, fascinated.

The Italian press published the records of black boxes of the sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia, which were previously considered not existing due to the allegedly disconnected at the moment of the flight of the recorders. Negotiations serve convincing proof of guilt in the captain of the Captain of Liner Francesco Skettino and indicate that after a collision with reef among crew members, the real panic reigned.

The data of the recorders showed that Skettino removed the ship from the autopilot and took control of control at 21:39, that is, six minutes before the collision, which happened at 21:45.

At 09:56, the captain called the officer's duty officer of the Salvation service and recognized his guilt: "I got. Listen, I'm dying. Do not say anything to me". After a few more minutes, he called back the same officer, but he had already tried to shift responsibility on the younger officer: "It's all Palcombo. He told me: "Swatch let's be closer, closer." Well, I sailed closer, taped feed reef. And I just wanted to please him, it's just a catastrophe. "

Next, the captain actually ceased to take part in the management of the ship, tightening the time of the beginning of the evacuation of passengers. As a result, it began when the vessel was already much filled with water, and the orders were given to the evacuation of non-Sketin, but his colleagues.

7. Captain Cruise Liner Francesco Sketino sits at a police car in Grosseto, Italy, January 14, 2012. Skettino was arrested on charges of intentional murder.

According to the part of the accusation, Captain Skettino led the Costa Concordia cruise liner too close to the coast of the Gielo Island and planted the ship on the rock. If the captain's confession is guilty, he faces up to 20 years in prison. Francesco Sketino himself rejects charges against him, claiming that the rock, which was lit by the liner, was absent on marine maps. Protecting the captain during the hearings once again suggested a court to recognize guilt, within which Schtttino agrees to a three-year prison sentence, if the court decides that it is only partially guilty of the tragedy. According to forecasts, the fate of the captain is unlikely to decide until October.

8. Rescuers work near the Costa Costa Cruise Ship, lying on the side of the coast of the Tuscan Island of Gilo.

9. Rescuers work at the crash seat of the Costa Concordia liner.

According to numerous testimonies confirmed by video recordings, the Costa Concordia crew simply failed the rescue operation. Captain Sketino, according to "Westa", instead of the beginning of the evacuation and supply of a disaster signal, 15 minutes after the collision announced that the vessel was simply small problems with the generator. After half an hour, the passengers had already stood around the boats, while they were still hung, and the captain again reported trouble with the generator. Only closer to 11 o'clock when the roll reached 30 degrees, there were seven short and one long beep, meaning that the passengers need to leave the ship. Panic began, crush. Captain Sketino, according to the investigation, left the vessel in one of the first and not sending a disaster signal. The coast guard itself was contacted by the shore guard. Only then, in the downtime, a real rescue operation began. Those who did not get into the boat (four times did not have time to drain on the water, obviously, because of too much rolls), they filmed with helicopters when they clung to the handrails of the lighter on board liner. Some woven to the shore, which was very close.

10. Transportation of furniture extracted from the sunken liner.

Most passengers were delivered to the island of Gilo. The inhabitants of the island provided the victims of the crash, brought them food, drinking, warm things, placed them in the local church, school and other buildings.

On January 14-15, two newlyweds were discovered on the liner South KoreaAnd one Italian is a member of the crew.

11. Diver inspects the hull of the vessel.

12. Divers inside Costa Concordia liner.

On board the Costa Concordia raised cruise lifted lifts, we found values, the total value of which is more than € 10 million. Money and decorations that passengers of a sinking liner in a hurry did not have time to pick up with them, kept in the bank and jewelry boutiques located on board the ship, as well as in cells in passenger cabins.

13. Wheel liner under water.

14. Diver inspects the vessel.

15. Divers work inside the liner.

On board the sunken liner were about six thousand works of art. The greatest value of them is a rare collection of Japanese engravings of the XVIII-XIX centuries, in particular the work of Katsusiki hocus. The liner was also the Bohemian glass of the XIX century and other antiques, decorated the interior, decorations from liner jewelry stores and numerous values \u200b\u200bthat were left by passengers who left the ship. In this regard, the fears were expressed that these values \u200b\u200bcould be the production of "treasure hunters"

16. Inside the Costa Concordia liner.

17. Preparation for the operation to remove half a million gallons of fuel from the Costa Concordia liner, January 28, 2012.

On January 16, an oil liquid began to flow from the vessel. It has not yet been fuel, according to the employees of the Italian Ministry ambientBut if the ship slipped off the cliffs and broke, then two thousand three hundred tons of fuel could get into the sea. Therefore, they spent fuel pumping.

18. Costa Concordia off the coast of Gilo.

19. Relatives of shipwreck victims relate to a memorial plaque with the names of 32 killed a year after the catastrophe at the Tuscan Isola del Gilo Island, Italy, January 13, 2013.

21. Specialists collect spilled fuel near the liner Costa Concordia, January 25, 2012.

22. Workers with the help of massive steel tanks are trying to return the Costa Concordia liner to vertical position, January 11, 2013.

Engineers have never ever had to move such a large ship, sunken so close to the shore. Costa Concordia weighs more than 114 thousand tons, and in length, the vessel is comparable to three football fields.

23. Welders work on the Sosta Concordia liner, July 15, 2013. The case of the liner was compressed by 3 meters under its own weight.

If the liner was still turned over, then the effects for the environment would be catastrophic. Reef in the protected zone at the island of Gilo would be destroyed, and the vessel itself would take deeply under the water.

26. The staff of the American company Titan and the Italian company MICOPERI leads work on the airliner of Costa Concordia, September 15, 2013. Rescue operation "Parbuckling" is designed to raise a liner with a series of cables and hydraulic machines.

By mid-2013, the liner was still lying on board at the shore, attracting many tourists. Work was carried out on the preparation of it to the lifting: from the coastal of the diving, the platform is asked to the opposite board, volumetric square tanks were suspended, which after filling the water should have been supplied to Kil.30. The beginning of the final stage of the operation on the liner of the Costa Concordia liner, September 16, 2013.33. September 16, 2013 at 9:00 began operations to raise the vessel. In the photo taken on this day: the Costa Concordia liner is vertical for the first time since January 2012.36. The right side of Costa Concordia, September 17, 2013.

37. The Costa Concordia liner is vertical after a rescue operation, September 17, 2013.

The 19-hour surgery of the vessel ended. The vessel was given in a vertical position using rollers and 36 steel cables and a special platform built at a depth of 30 m.

38. The Costa Concordia liner after a large-scale operation returned to a vertical position under applause and joyful cries of local residents, September 17, 2013.

In the vertical position of Concordia will remain in front of the island of Gilo at least until spring when the vessel is departed into one of the nearest ports. The lifting of the vessel cost 600 million US dollars.

Through the bitter and salty water, the decks of sunken on the shallow depths of the ships appear. As if ghosts from the parallel world, they plunged into non-existence and now scare random witnesses from the depths.

In the clock, they approach the surface itself, where the leg of a careless swimmer can hurt a rusty and slugboard of the dead man.

When the tide comes, the sea hides the trophy by carrying it into the beams of the waves, under the severity of the waters. There, where everything is covered with a darkness of depth: and wreckage of ships, and plunged cities, both octopus, and storms, and gold boxes ...

Cemetery of ships in labor bay

The destroyers, guardianships, submarines, landing ships are just 42 objects in a flooded and half-hearted state. The main attraction of Russian island in pictures from space.

Most of them are written off the ships of the Pacific Fleet. Many are waiting for their participation from the mid-1970s., And have already lost all hope for disposal under normal conditions. Nowadays the Bay of Labor has become popular Moz For sapsert rods due to their magnificent and frightening types of rusty ridges of ships under water.

The remains of "Phoenix" and Beka-1 on Black Sea coast in the Odessa district

Sunken ship in Copenhagen harbor

"Island dead ships»Out of the coast of Australia

F6F deck fighter "Hallekt", shot down above the Lagoon Pacific Atoll

The legendary "mod" (MAUD) - the expedition ship R. Amundsen, shuddered by ice from the Arctic coast of Canada

Already mentioned in the previous review sunken schooner on Lake Huron. This time - aerial view

The cruiser "Murmansk", having flown on the rocks of Hammerfest. The most heroic representative of the entire collection of dead ships

The former flagship of the Northern Fleet, Klob "Murmansk" served 36 years, leaving behind the feed over 240 thousand nautical miles. In 1989, the old cruiser was excluded from the acting composition of the fleet and put into sucks; Three years later, sold for metal.

In December 1994, during towing to India, the old warrior was broken with towing cables. Death on the deadly beach of Alanga appeared unworthy flagship SF. As if samurai, who chosen Seppuk, the cruiser preferred to a breast on sharp rocks.

He spent from the coast of Norway for many 15 years, turning into a local attraction for those who wish to stand on the Soviet combat ship. However, the concerns of Norwegian ecologists took up - in 2010, work began on the cutting "Murmansk" in the improvised drained "lagoon". To date, it has not been left behind him.