Investigating Costa Concordia’s black box – answers

questions

1. Who is continuing to search the ship? rescue workers
2. What happened to the ship on Friday? the ship capsized (fell over)
3. How many casualties were there in this disaster? 80 – 6 people died, 60 were injured and 14 people are still missing
4. How big is the vessel? 114,000 tons
5. Who has been arrested? the captain of the ship
6. What now needs to be established? the precise sequence of events
7. How were the weather conditions at the time of the accident? good: calm seas and clear weather
8. Who found the black box? (coast guard) divers
9. Which two things is the captain alleged to have done? left the ship before the evacuation of passengers was complete and refused to return to the ship when asked to by the coast guard
10. What did the captain under-estimate? the gravity (seriousness) of the situation