Cruise ship runs aground off Italian coastline

The Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy’s Giglio Island (near Tuscany) late Friday night. It seems as though the captain was trying to perform some maneuver to impress the tourists and the people of the island. In the process, he took the ship too close and ran it aground thus capsizing the ship and killing 3 passengers with more missing. While this accident is tragic, please don’t go cancelling your cruise just yet. Cruising is actually the safest mode of transportation listed at this time. About 19 million passengers enjoyed safe cruising experiences last year without any incidents. Furthermore, the cruise industry takes the safety of their passengers very seriously and I am confident will make the appropriate changes to ensure this kind of thing does not happen again. For those of you with a future sailing on the Concordia, please check out Costa’s options. It was an isolated incident that grounded this ship off the coast of Italy and is not the normal operating procedure.

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