• The wreck of the Costa Concordia seen at night

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    A view of the wreck of the cruise liner Costa Concordia lying aground in front of the Isola del Giglio (Giglio island) on Jan. 23, after hitting underwater rocks on January 13. Two more bodies were found on Monday from the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, bringing the official death toll to 15.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    They found two more bodies today onboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship, bringing the death toll to 15. The ship is now stable, and as they continue their search for the missing, they will also begin pumping fuel from the stricken ship, possibly as early as Tuesday. They also began collecting floating deck chairs today. More photos are in our slideshow below.

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    The Costa Concordia, carrying more than 4,200 passengers, ran aground Jan. 13 off the coast of Italy. At least 15 people died in the accident, and rescuers continue to search for others missing.

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  • Costa Concordia rescue operation suspended as ship moves

    NBC News is reporting all rescue divers have been evacuated from the Costa Concordia. NBC's Laura Saravia in Porto Santo Stefano, Italy said the ship is rocking slightly due to choppy seas. "The movement is affecting divers working on rescue efforts inside, and they have been evacuated as a precaution. Rescue operations are suspended at this moment," Saravia said. Read the full story.

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    A rescue worker climbs onto the Costa Condordia on Jan. 16, 2012. Rescue workers searched the half submerged hulk of the capsized Italian cruise ship for 14 people still missing on Monday, more than 48 hours after the huge vessel capsized, killing at least six and injuring more than 60.

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    A woman looks at the Costa Concordia cruise liner two days after it ran aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, on Jan. 16, 2012.

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    Slideshow: Luxury cruise ship runs aground

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    The Costa Concordia ran aground Jan. 13 off the coast of Italy, resulting in the evacuation of thousands of passengers as the ship began heavily listing.

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    TODAY's Natalie Morales talks with the Ananias family, who were among the last to leave the grounded Costa Concordia, as they describe the chaos of the accident. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.

     

  • 2 survivors on honeymoon rescued after found trapped in capsized cruise ship

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    Two South Korean passengers are rescued from the Costa Concordia, Jan. 15.

     AP reports:

    The two survivors of a cruise ship grounding who were found nearly a day after the ship rolled onto its side have been identinfied as a South Korean couple on their honeymoon.

    Prato fire commander Vincenzo Bennardo told The Associated Press that rescuers who had been banging on doors of the ship cabins all night finally heard a reply from one of the rooms early Sunday. He said the two, about 29 years old, were in good condition. He said the rescuers never stopped going door-to-door during the night in the non-submerged part of the ship.

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    Slideshow: Luxury cruise ship runs aground

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    The Costa Concordia ran aground Jan. 13 off the coast of Italy, resulting in the evacuation of thousands of passengers.

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    Panic ensues after a luxury cruise ship dubbed the "Floating Temple of Fun" runs aground off Italy. NBC's Claudio Lavanga reports.

     

  • Passengers tell of panic on wrecked cruise ship

     

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    The Costa Concordia is seen after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio, late Jan. 13. Three people died and several were missing after the ship with more than 4,000 people on board ran aground sparking chaos as passengers scrambled to get off. The ship was on a cruise in the Mediterranean, leaving from Savona with planned stops in Civitavecchia, Palermo, Cagliari, Palma, Barcelona and Marseille," the company said.

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    The Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy resulting in the evacuation of thousands of passengers and the ship's listing.

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    NBC News and news services report:

    "Have you seen 'Titanic?' That's exactly what it was," said Valerie Ananias, 31, a schoolteacher from Los Angeles who was traveling with her sister and parents on the first of two cruises around the Mediterranean.

    They all had dark red bruises on their knees from the desperate crawl they endured along hallways and stairwells that were nearly vertical, trying to reach rescue boats.

    "We were crawling up a hallway, in the dark, with only the light from the life vest strobe flashing," her mother, Georgia Ananias, 61, said. "We could hear plates and dishes crashing, people slamming against walls."

    Full story: 'I thought that was the end': Passengers tell of panic on wrecked cruise ship

    Thousands of people are rescued and at least three are dead in Italy after a cruise ship hits a rock reef near Tuscany. NBC's Claudio Lavanga reports.

     

  • Cruise ship runs aground off Italy; deaths reported

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    Passengers are seen in a rescue boat of the stranded cruise ship Costa Concordia near the island of Giglio, Italy, on Saturday.

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    The Costa Concordia listing after running aground off the coast of Italy late Friday.

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    Rescue boats of the stranded cruise ship Costa Concordia arrive in the harbor of the island of Giglio, Italy on Saturday.

    msnbc.com staff reports: A cruise ship with up to 4,000 people on board ran aground on the island of Giglio, off the Tuscan coast, on Friday night, and UK media reported that at least two people died.

    The Telegraph said some passengers jumped from the steeply listing Costa Concordia and swam a short distance to the island. A photo in the Telegraph showed the brightly lit ship teetering just outside a harbor wall.

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  • Markus Hibbeler / Zuma Press

    The new cruise ship Disney Fantasy leaves the dockyard at Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, Jan. 7. It is the largest ship to be built in Germany and can carry 4,000 passengers.

    Enormous Disney Fantasy leaves dockyard in Germany

    The Orlando Sentinel reports:

    After the float out, next up for the Fantasy will be its convayance down the River Ems from the shipyard at the end of January followed by sea trials before being handed over to Disney in March.

    The Fantasy's debut voyage will be on March 31, 2011. The Fantasy will sail out of Port Canaveral, offering alternating seven-night cruises to the Eastern and Western Caribbean with stops at Castaway Cay, the line's private island in the Bahamas.

    Orlando Sentinel: Disney Fantasy cruise ship to get first taste of water

  • People around the world attempt to break records

    By Mish Whalen

    See more Guinness World Records from 2011 here.

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    Romanian high school students dance in Opera Square, Timisoara on May 20, 2011. Thousands of high school pupils on May 20 gathered to dance the quadrille in several cities accross South Eastern Europe, hoping to beat the world record of the largest synchronised dance. In Timisoara, Western Romania, about 1,500 high school pupils dressed in black and white and carrying sunshades executed a quadrille, an historic dance very popular in Europe in the XIXth century, on one of the main central squares.

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    Twenty Estonian men yoked to the Tallink's cruise ship Baltic Queen move the 20.000-ton cruise ship, to set a new record, during the Tallinn's Maritime Days in Tallinn on May 20, 2011. The event was organized as one of the key events on Tallinn's Maritime Days by Tallink company. The Baltic Queen is one of the Baltic Sea's largest cruise ships, with a length of 212 meters, beam of 29 meters and weight of close to 20,000 tons. In 2010 the Estonian men hauled a 200-ton train and in 2009, one of the muscle men, Andrus Murumets, single-handedly pushed a 40-ton Estonian Air Boeing 737-500.

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    Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, Thomas Harrison, and Chris Floyd, left to right, tackle the Armour Pepperoni with Cheese Eating Competition at Rounder's Pizzeria in Austin, Texas on Thursday, May 19, 2011. Bertoletti won the event by eating 252 slices, or 2.25 pounds, in 6 minutes.

     

    

  • Cruise ship hammered by wave in Antarctica

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    This Dec. 7 photo shows the Antarctic tourist ship the "Clelia II" struggling in high seas with 165 people aboard in the southern Drake Passage, just north of the Shetland Islands. The ship declared an emergency on Tuesday, reporting it had suffered engine damage amid heavy seas and 55 mph (90 kph) winds when it was about 500 miles (845 kilometers) from Ushuaia, the Argentine Navy said in a statement.

    By Jim Seida

    According to news reports, the ships power and communications were knocked out when it was hit with a 30-foot wave. 

    Tourists capture shocking video of a cruise ship being slammed by enormous swells near Antarctica. Although the waves crippled the vessel, none of the 160 passengers aboard were hurt. TODAY's Natalie Morales reports.