The shamed skipper of the Costa Concordia gave a chilling interview a year before the disaster saying he would not have liked to captain the Titanic. Francesco Schettino, 52, ­nicknamed ...

Costa Concordia Captain Blames Crash On Helmsman : ... "The ship, which is twice the size of the Titanic, will be stabilized and checked to make sure it can make it through the harsh winter.

Date of wrecks: The Titanic went down on April 15, 1912. The Costa Concordia capsized on Jan.13, 2012.. Size of ships: The Titanic was 882 feet and 8 inches long (268 meters) and had a tonnage of ...

STOCKHOLM — Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship. But is it realistic to expect skippers — only human after all — to suppress their su… ...

Nov. 16, 2012— -- Captain Francesco Schettino, the man dubbed "Captain Coward" for abandoning the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia after it struck the rocks and sank off the Tuscan island ...

Costa Concordia Captain Arrested, Abandoned Sinking Cruise Ship! Radar Staff. Jan. 15 2012, Published 8:00 a.m. ET. ... in the disaster that has been compared to the Titanic.

Captain of Costa Concordia Arrested, Charged With Manslaughter The Titanic's captain went down with the ship. By Steve Huff • 01/14/12 5:18pm (image via @DreamBlog) ...

The erstwhile captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia is facing up to 23 years in prison on multiple manslaughter charges, ... The giant cruise ship, more than twice as big as the Titanic, ...

But then there are the differences. The Titanic had 2,207 people on board; the Concordia about 4,200. The Titanic was much smaller: 46,328 tons compared with the Concordia's 114,500 tons.

The captain of the Costa Concordia says the helmsman of the ill-fated cruise liner failed to properly execute a last-minute corrective maneuver that could have kept the massive vessel off a rocky ...

Size of ships: The Titanic was 882 feet and 8 inches long (268 meters) and had a tonnage of 46,000.The Costa Concordia was larger, with a tonnage of 114,500 and a length of 951 feet and 5 inches ...

As of today (Jan. 18), an estimated 11 Costa Concordia passengers were confirmed dead, with 23 still missing. Fate of the captain: Edward J. Smith, the captain of the Titanic, went down with his ship.