Overview
- On January 13, 2012 the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck submerged rocks off Giglio after deviating from course, began to list and left 32 people dead.
- Captain Francesco Schettino was tried and convicted for manslaughter, causing a maritime disaster and abandoning ship and his 16-year sentence was upheld on appeal.
- The documentary, released July 10, 2026, presents previously unseen black box audio, archival video and first-person accounts that reframe the sequence of events that night.
- Archival recordings shown in the film document that ship leadership initially described a power outage, delayed an abandon-ship order for about an hour and that Schettino briefly boarded a lifeboat while hundreds remained aboard.
- The wreck prompted the largest modern salvage effort, the ship was refloated and towed for scrapping in 2014, and the new coverage is renewing public debate about accountability, survivor trauma and maritime safety reforms.