With 4200 souls on board, the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy yesterday. Officials are reporting 3 lives lost, however, the number of missing and injured are unknown as this time. A 160 foot gash in the side of the ship sent water gushing through the hull, forcing evacuation.
(AP Photo/Guardia di Finanza, ho)
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160 foot gash? That God it ran aground. Had that damage happened where the ship could have gone down in deeper water….
must have been going pretty fast to sustain that kind of damage.