Key dates in Costa Concordia shipwreck, trial and cleanup

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ___ Jan. 13, 2012: The Costa Concordia slams into a reef off Italy's Giglio island after the captain, Francesco Schettino, ordered it taken off course and brought it close to shore in a stunt. “Go back and report to me how many passengers there are and what they need.. Perhaps you saved yourself from the sea, but I’ll make you pay for this, damn it!” Jan. 20, 2012: Costa's CEO tells Italian state TV that Schettino relayed inaccurate information to the company and crew and downplayed the seriousness of the situation after the ship hit the rocks, delaying the mobilization of proper assistance. Nov. 3, 2014: The body of Indian waiter Russel Rebello, the last missing victim, is found by crews dismantling the vessel for scrap in Genoa Feb. 11, 2015: The court in Grosetto convicts Schettino and sentences him to 16 years in prison for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the vessel before passengers and crew had been evacuated, as well as for giving false information about the gravity of the collision. December, 2021: A Genoa court orders Costa Crociere to pay 92,700 euros to Concordia passenger Ernesto Carusotti in one of the few civil lawsuits to reach a verdict against the company.