Months after its deadly shipwreck, the cruise liner will float again.
“The company is not only going to refund everybody but they will offer a 30% discount on future cruises if they want to stay loyal to the company,” a Costa Cruises spokesperson said.
Was it human error or an instruction from Costa Cruises that led to the Jan. 13 shipwreck?
Shortly after the ship hit a rock, a female crew member asked Costa Concordia passengers to return to their rooms where they “will be seated and tranquil.” Within hours, several of the ship’s passengers would be dead.
One of the cruise ship’s entertainers returned to his cabin to retrieve his precious instrument, and it cost him his life.
Gerald and Barbara Heil, from White Bear Lake, Minn., are the two Americans missing of 25 passengers and crew members still unaccounted for.
The cruise-ship catastrophe faces two separate obstacles: finding the remaining passengers and deciding how to prosecute the ship’s captain.
From the courageous to the cowardly, survivors of the Italian cruise ship disaster are telling their stories.
