What began as a luxury Caribbean cruise quickly turned into one of the most infamous maritime disasters in modern history after an engine room fire left the ship powerless in the Gulf of Mexico. With ...

The sinking of the Oceanos became one of the most astonishing cruise ship disasters in modern history—not because of the storm, but because passengers were effectively abandoned while the captain and ...

The 2012 shipwreck killed 32 people and led to a criminal trial for the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, who abandoned the vessel On Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, a luxury Italian cruise ship called the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Captain Francesco Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in prison for manslaughter and abandoning passengers in February 2015, per ...

China mourns the victims of the Yangtze River cruise ship disaster as the number of confirmed deaths rises to 406. Rough cut (no reporter narration). Advertisement Advertisement 1:01 Advertisement ...

Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea is Netflix's newest documentary, bringing the Costa Concordia tragedy back into the spotlight, and it is every bit as gripping as it sounds. The ship carried thousands of ...

Most of the bodies were recovered when the ship was turned upright on Friday The death toll from the Chinese ferry disaster now stands at 396, the authorities say, as emergency workers search the ...

The Costa Concordia disaster remains one of the deadliest incidents in modern cruise ship history. On Jan. 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia — carrying roughly 3,200 passengers and more than 1,000 crew ...