Francesco Schettino

Costa survivors attend 1st hearing on shipwreck

Participants acknowledged that the search for truth and justice will be a long one.

Eight more bodies found as Costa mystery remains unsolved

The officers and executives from Costa Cruises, the stricken vessel's operator, join the ship's captain Francesco Schettino and first officer Ciro Ambrosio who are being formally investigated.

Italy shipwreck captain tests negative for drugs

The results showed Schettino had consumed neither alcohol nor drugs, according to details of the tests released by consumers' association Codacons, which has presented a class action suit against the ship's owners.

I made a judgement error: Costa captain

Within a quarter of a nautical mile of the coast, in water he believed to be deep enough to be safe, he saw foam breaking on what appeared to be a submerged outcrop and turned sharply, exposing the side of the hull to the sharp rock.

Court refuses to lift house arrest order on Costa captain

The court in Florence rejected two requests: one from prosecutors to jail Schettino and another from Schettino to be freed.

Costa limits legal fallout, offers compensation

Costa Cruises has offered 11,000 euros in compensation to each of the more than 3,000 passengers aboard its liner that ran aground and capsized two weeks ago.

Italy captain was told to approach shore: transcripts

The conversation, in a thick Neapolitan dialect , was taped without Schettino's knowledge, while he was being held in custody after the accident.

Fuel trapped inside Concordia threat to Italian paradise

There are about a half million gallons (2,400 tons) of heavy fuel oil on board, as well as some 200 tons of diesel oil and smaller amounts of lubricants and other environmentally hazardous materials.

Coastguard pleaded Concordia captain to get back on board

Newspaper Corriere della Sera released what it said was a recording of ship-to-shore radio communications in which the enraged coastguards repeatedly order him back on board.

Number of people missing from Concordia rises to 29

The slippage caused a few hours suspension in efforts to find anyone still alive after three days in the capsized hull, resting on jagged slope outside a picturesque harbour on the island of Giglio.