Costa Concordia - The Modern Day Titanic Disaster

Meera Dolasia
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:43:28 -0800

On January 13th, just two hours after luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia left the Italian port of for , the final destination of its seven-day journey, it struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the shore of the . The impact created a 160-foot long gash in her hull, causing water to gush in at an alarming speed.