Overview
- Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea premiered on July 10, 2026 and includes previously unseen cell-phone video, black-box audio and the coastguard call that ordered Captain Francesco Schettino back onto the vessel.
- On Jan. 13, 2012 the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck rocks off Giglio Island, suffered a massive hull breach and partial capsize that killed 32 people during a delayed and chaotic evacuation.
- Schettino was convicted in 2015 of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship and is serving a 16-year sentence in Italy after exhausting appeals.
- Viewers and reports have flagged that the documentary omits details that featured in the trial record and reporting, including the captain’s admitted poor vision, the presence of Domnica Cemortan on the bridge and specific breaches of maritime emergency procedure.
- The film has reopened attention to the long aftermath of the disaster, which included the largest salvage operation to refloat the wreck, the 2014 death of a salvage diver and corporate fines and passenger settlements paid by Costa Cruises.