How disaster can strike, even 100 years after the Titanic
Costa Concordia is the largest and most luxury vessel from the family of Costa Cruises. The ship is the symbol of the largest cruise company is Europe. Costa Concordia is really amazing ship with length of 290.00 meters and beam of 36.00 meters. The cruise ship is having 114,500 gross tonnage and capacity for 3,700 passengers and 1,100 crew members.
How could this have happened? What about all the advanced navigational equipment on today's ships? And especially, shouldn't hazards in the Mediterran be well mapped by now?
Besides the loss of life and economic damage in reef collisions, environmental damage can be catastrophic. I don't have an answer but it's worth pondering in the Titanic year: why has aviation, with such fragile craft and so many more things that can go wrong, improved its safety record so much more successfully than shipping?
These short facts are revealing in front of you the majesty of the cruise ship. Costa Concordia is the bijou of the cruise shipping in Europe. The vessel is sailing under the flag of Italy and proves the words for high quality and reliability. Many people claim that the ship was built around the largest on-board spa center of the world, instead of the opposite.
This is quite expected if you know that Costa Concordia is having the largest spa center
ever built on board of cruise ship. The Samsara Spa is large, luxury and fully equipped to give the visitors ability to have calm and relaxing time on board. But in spite of its size spa center is not the only one entertainment on board. Together with Samsara Spa guests have access to sport facilities, 4 pools, 7 restaurants and 13 bars.
The night life is quite amazing with the luxury bars, lounges and dance-clubs. And after getting nice time in some of the clubs you can get a walk under the stars in some of the public parks, which are open 24 hours a day. The cinema on board is one of the highest rated attractions, because having the largest screen ever installed on board of cruise ship. Many people prefer watching movies under the stars in the large facility instead of having drinks in the bars during the night. If you prefer the parties, definitely should visit the Havana bar, which is situated on the open air and give you great time in the hot summer nights.
The cruise ship is giving the guests amazing entertainments and places where kinds and children can enjoy themselves and leave their parents on the ship's life. The children center is having Grand Prix Simulator, Virtual world, Squok Club with PlayStation Entertainment, games, roundabouts and cradles. The kids will have happy time, while the parents will enjoy their vacancy on board. The cruise ship is having also large number of sport facilities with more than 2,000 square meters fields for tennis, soccer, basketball and volleyball. The fitness hall is part from the spa center and has good equipment to keep your form during the holiday you have. Costa Concordia is known as the European green-ship having nice parks and trees, which will make you feeling that you are in the most luxury resort.
Details of the grounding of the Mediterranean cruise ship Costa Concordia are still unclear, but it appears that the vessel struck a reef, killing at least six people, some of whom panicked and jumped overboard before the ship could be completely evacuated -- this only three months before the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic.
How could this have happened? What about all the advanced navigational equipment on today's ships? And especially, shouldn't hazards in the Mediterran be well mapped by now?
While the public's mind has been on icebergs (even though few passenger ships regularly travel the North Atlantic now), marine safety pros have been concerned about reefs. To quote from a document issued by a member of a voluntary research group, the Forensic Naval Architecture Committee, last fall, on the Titanic:
Q. Long tears down the side like the Titanic cannot happen again, right?
Q. Long tears down the side like the Titanic cannot happen again, right?
A. The solution to icebergs was radar. Unfortunately, pinnacle rocks and reefs don't show up on radar and can rip holes down the length of a ship. In 1998 Monarch of the Seas hit a reef with extensive holing down the length of the ship. Fortunately, there was a nearby beach to put her bow onto to avoid the risk of sinking. [Monarch incident background is available here. The complete report is here [pdf].]Naval architects are once again pushing the boundaries of big -- 80,000 gross tons volume used to be a big ship but now considered moderate size in comparison to the 225,000 gross ton Allure of the Seas. There are still surprises out there -- nobody thought the outside of a cruise ship could catch on fire but it did on the Star Princess [pdf].
No lives were lost about the Monarch of the Seas, but another ship, the MS Sea Diamond, sank near the island of Santorini, also in the Mediterranean, leaving two passengers missing and presumed dead.
Besides the loss of life and economic damage in reef collisions, environmental damage can be catastrophic. I don't have an answer but it's worth pondering in the Titanic year: why has aviation, with such fragile craft and so many more things that can go wrong, improved its safety record so much more successfully than shipping? 
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