Italy Ship Survivors

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  "Was To Be Our Best Experience": Survivors Recount Italy Ship Disaster

  On the evening of January 13, 2012, Umberto Trotti heard the terrified cries of his wife and baby in the lifeboat below, and threw himself off the capsizing Italian cruise ship.

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  Around 6,800 Migrants Rescued, Baby Girl Born on Italian Navy Ship

  Around 6,800 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats crossing to Europe over the weekend, including a mother who gave birth to a baby girl on an Italian navy ship, the coast guard said.

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  No More Survivors Found From Italy Migrant Shipwreck

  Rescuers have found no more survivors from the shipwreck of a boat in which 400 migrants are believed to have drowned, the Italian coastguard said today.

• Italy's Giant Cruise Wreck Begins Final Voyage as Survivors Look on

  Italy's Costa Concordia will set sail on its final voyage on Wednesday as survivors look on, two and a half years after the luxury cruise ship crashed and sank in a night-time disaster that left 32 people dead.

• Italy Cruise Survivors Testify for First Time

  Survivors of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster began testifying for the first time yesterday at the trial of its captain Francesco Schettino as the liner's owner said it could be towed away in July.

• Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloat

  Survivors of a fiery shipwreck that killed more than 110 African migrants clung for hours to empty water bottles in the dark, trying desperately to keep themselves from drowning in the sea, an Italian fisherman said on Friday.

• Stricken ship captain blames company pressure: reports

  The captain of the stricken Costa Concordia liner told a friend a day after the disaster that a manager from the cruise company pressured him to sail too close to shore, the Italian media has reported.

• Italy cruise tragedy: 200 Indians returning home

  Two hundred Indian nationals, who were rescued from the ill-fated cruize ship 'Costa Concordia' which had run aground off Italy coast on Saturday, are returning to India.

• Italy cruise wreck rescue halted, captain under house arrest

  The captain of a doomed Italian cruise liner returned home to the Amalfi coast under house arrest as fears grew that bad weather could hamper rescue efforts on the wreck.

• Love in the time of Concordia

  The story of the ship that keeled over off the Tuscan coast, the luxury liner Costa Concordia, can be told in over 4,000 different ways -- one each from the memory of those aboard it.

• 25 Indians head home after luxury cruise disaster

  The Indian Embassy in Italy threw some valuable light on the status of the 201 Indian crew members who were on board the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia, when it capsized on Friday night. First Secretary at the Embassy Vishwesh Negi revealed that 25 of them were likely to board Air Italia flights to Dubai, from where they would be taking conne...

• "I left everything in the hands of the Almighty, and just jumped": Mumbai survivor

  "Standing at the edge of the deck, I left everything in the hands of the Almighty, and just jumped," said Jason D'Silva. And the Almighty must have been listening, as it was this very leap of faith -- off the capsizing Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia and onto a teetering lifeboat tossing in the choppy waters -- that miraculously saved the crew...

• Italy cruise tragedy: Holes blasted in ship to search for missing

  Italian naval divers on Tuesday exploded holes in the hull of a cruise ship grounded off a Tuscan island to speed the search for 29 missing people while seas were still calm. One official said there was still a "glimmer of hope" that survivors could be found.

• 29 missing on cruise wreck, captain questioned

  Hopes began to fade for 29 people still unaccounted for from the wreck of a luxury liner off the coast of Italy on Tuesday as a judge questioned the captain over his role in the disaster.

• Italy cruise ship tragedy conjures memories of doomed Titanic

  The first interviews of survivors - and the first impressions of people across the world - of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise liner that ran aground and tipped over in Italy are yielding predictable comparisons to another tragedy.