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  1. After years of studies, protests and legal debates, the Italian government has announced that large cruise ships and other massive vessels will no longer be able to enter Venice's large canal, preventing tens of thousands of tourists a day from disembarking in the heart of the famous city on the

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  1. Italian Captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty today for causing the fatal shipwreck of the Costa Concordia and sentenced to 16 years in prison, according to a three-judge panel. The verdict came after a 19-month-long trial in which Schettino, who had been accused of causing the Jan. 13, 2012

  2. Prosecutors in an Italian court released video today purportedly showing captain Francesco Schettino boarding a lifeboat before passengers of the Costa Concordia – a 2012 accident that resulted in 32 deaths. The cruise liner was navigating through shallow waters on Jan. 13, 2012 when it slammed

  3. The captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia made his first court appearance today in Italy and testified that he steered the cruise ship closer to shore so he could "pay homage to the island." Captain Francesco Schettino's decision led to the death of 32 passengers on board when the ship got too

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  5. After 2.5 years — and nearly $1 billion so far — the giant wreck of the Costa Concordia was lifted off the seabed today and refloated for its final journey to the scrapyard. “The weather is good. Everyone’s ready off shore,” said Nick Sloane, the...

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  7.   The captain of the South Korean ferry that sank with hundreds of high school students aboard is under criminal investigation for his actions, but it’s not clear whether he broke any laws by being one of the first people off the crippled boat. While...

  8. The wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise liner has been pulled upright after a 19-hour, first-of-its-kind engineering feat to salvage the ship that slammed into a reef near Giglio Island 20 months ago. ''The parbuckling operation has been successfully completed," the project's organizers said in

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