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Costa Concordia - BEFORE Jan 13 2012 - source Wikimedia Commons

As the one hundred year anniversary looms for the massive ocean liner RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sunk on April 14-15 1912, the shipping news is again full of drama


October 5 2011 Rena container ship runs aground on Astrolabe Reef, New Zealand, finally splitting in two in January 2012. environmental impact from heavy fuel oil and spilt cargo. - link to extensive blog, photos, astro-analysis This was an impact incident.
December 16 2011 Sparta - Russian fishing boat trawling for patagonian toothfish "when it hit a submerged iceberg and issued a distress call at about 3am on December 16 from a position next to the Antarctic ice shelf, about 3700km south east of New Zealand." NZ Herald report This was an impact incident.
January 8 2012 MV Tycoon phosphate ship breaks from mooring in a storm then split in two on Jan 9 2012, discharging phosphate and heavy fuel oil Christmas Island (Australian offshore territory) -interview
This was an impact incident.
January 11 2012 Jeong Woo 2 Korean fishing boat in Ross Sea Antarctica issues mayday due to fire on board -report On Jan 13 sister ship JW3 had been instructed to tow JW2 to 60South for a decision. This was a fire incident.

January 13 2012 Costa Concordia cruise ship succumbs to the sea after striking submerged rocks off the Tuscan coast near Giglio Island, Italy -extensive information, excellent photo gallery and astrological analysis. - link This was an impact incident.
January 15 2012 Lady Moon oil tanker sinks 500m from Al Hamriya (UAE) port around 6.15am
January 15 2012 Tit Bonhomme trawler sank around 6am, Glandore Bay, Ireland. Hit rocks Adam's Island at mouth of bay. Loss of 5 crew
January 15 2012 Edirne, oil tanker sank 5kms from Durres, Albania, 3 dead.
January 24 2012  Rebecca May NZ fishing vessel issues midday mayday, Bay of Plenty, NZ;  crew rescued as ship sinks. report
Feb 2 2012  MV Rabaul Queen sinks 300-350 people may be aboard a ferry that has sunk off Papua New Guinea
Feb 2 2012 Dry Beam cargo ship hammered by rogue wave off B.C. Canada
Feb 8 2012  VIP -NZ Navy barge hits rocks, takes on water
Feb 27 2012 Costa Allegra cruise ship suffers a fire, loss of power, drifts for days before docking in the Seychelles port of Victoria
March 15 2012 Easy Rider fishing boat sinks due to rogue wave, Foveaux Strait near Steweart Island, New Zealand - see further report re Bad Moon Rising
March 30 2012 Azamara Quest Cruise ship fire in southern Philippines waters (Friday night 8.19pm presumed local time)

Rena -sinking of the stern

April 15 2012 Titanic centennial commemorations are underway. Scientific American has collected a range of reports

Further references
Maritime Bulletin - for accident reports
Marine Traffic map
Cruise Ship Tracker

Costa Concordia sinking - analysis, photos, timeline

Concordia Capsized  January 2012     

TIMELINE ***  PHOTO GALLERY ***
 CONCORDIA ASTROLOGY
Latest: March 2015 -huge stash of mafia cocaine was aboard the Concordia
 

2012 has gotten off to a bang, literally with the Friday 13th of January maritime disaster involving the 2006 cruise ship Costa Concordia striking rocks, taking on water, listing and finally coming to lay on its starboard side at the port of Giglio Island off the coast of Italy .
 In 2006, the Concordia was the largest cruise ship ever at that time. Now it is lowly ranked at #26 since the era of gargantuan ships in recent years. Sailing mainly under flags of convenience which allows less stringent employment regulations and tax minimization, these ships tend to be registered in places like Panama and employing low cost service workers. The mega American corporate Carnival owns Costa, Cunard and P&O. Critics say that the bloated floating complexes have compromised safety in favour of revenue.
The final indignity: the Concordia is too big to move and is likely to be cut into pieces for removal.

   for salvage updates 2013 -  scroll to end

See links at the end of this post for:

A timeline of the unfolding drama.

An excellent gallery of pictures including inside Concordia as the disaster unfolded, as passengers recalled the Titanic tragedy of a century ago ( April 15 2012)

For commentary & astrology of the strong alignment of planets impacting on this event, read on...

News Updates
Jan 22 2012
A total of 12 bodies now located -news update

In Jan 20, Astrologer Archie Dunlop gives a possible birthdate of Nov 14 1960 for Capt. Schettino, a Neptunian Scorpio. If that date was correct his Sun at 21 degrees is in a lengthy challenging phase with Pluto in Capricorn. Issues of death and responsibility combine in this pairing.

The Concordia is said to have suffered two prior bad omens: the champagne bottle failed to break on first attempt when launched; A minor accident gashed the hull in Nov 2008, entering Palermo. REPORT

Jan 18 2012
More photos and reports including men behaving badly -including the captain, crew and fellow passengers - men aboard the Concordia displayed shocking degrees of self interest. In 100 years since the Titanic, humanity has gone way off course. 
DAILY MAIL report & pics from Jan 17
Death toll rises to 11.
Coastguard directs Captain to return to ship - transcript
Jan 17 2012
The Costa Concordia remains tenuously on undersea ledge in 15-20 metres of water, in rough water on MondayThe deceased are said to total 6 with 29 missing including 4 crew. Numbers remain preliminary.
Described as an"ecological timebomb", the ship had 2380 tonnes of fuel on board.

See Other recent shipping dramas link at the end of this post for eerily similarities to other recent (2011-2012) shipwrecks such as the Rena in New Zealand.

ASTROLOGY
It appears the critical incident occurred close to 9.30pm local time.
A possible event chart calculated for 9.35pm Jan 13 2012 in the locality of the port of Giglio is shown below so those interested can view the planetary alignments coinciding with this event.
The chart wheel plus planet connections are shown both visually and by data.
CLICK any image for enlarged gallery view

As expected a cluster of linked planetary energies were triggered at this time and the locality was where the potential manifested.

The current (January 2012) powerful cluster involves Jupiter-Uranus-Neptune-Chiron all tightly linked in relationship to Saturn.

Saturn figures consistently in disastrous events. 

The midpoint grid above shows the point of energy blend between any two elements in the event chart. A midpoint synergises the two forces powerfully.
Note how the Sun-Mercury, Sun-Pluto, Jupiter-Uranus, Saturn-Uranus midpoints all cluster at 15-16 degrees -three of those in Capricorn and one in Aries -  so they are all connected as cardinal signs creating the signatures themes of casualties (Uranus) and death (Pluto) plus the destruction (Pluto) of the large vessel (Jupiter) involving a sharp (Aries) rock (Saturn)

Being a mass karma event the nodes of the Moon are prominent, being in exact alignment to the central vertical axis of Gemini-Sagittarius. both signs link to forms of transport, movement and travel as well as communications, they differ in terms of the scale of movement and range of communications.
Saturn sits at the midpoint of the north lunar node in Sagittarius ( offshore travel, big adventure) and the rising sign ascendant timing point -the AC in Virgo.
It is evident that at 9.25pm this destructive pattern involving the mass destiny of people was exactly activated by a rising degree of 14 Virgo.

Since New Year 2012 Saturn has inched closer by the day to align strongly with the group of planets that combines keywords related to large objects, the sea and maritime issues, accidents and trauma. (The keyword references for this quartet are far more extensive - and with Neptune relating to sea,water, oil and gas as well as Uranus relating to aviation, the New Zealand hot air ballooning tragedy this month, January 2012 - full details -  was another manifestation)

Another strong pattern is ready to form in the period January 19-22 2012 when the Sun, Moon, lunar nodes, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Chiron are again capable of triggering an event which could involve similar keywords involving travel-large luxury transport-maritime-disaster. Saturn is definitely prominent then being exact square to the Sun and Neptune linked in, but as stated, the range of keywords that could combine is comprehensive. With Saturn in Libra though there is a warning that this period remains challenging for couples, partners, married people in a situation of being transported, especially if it is a group "fantasy","magical" or "dream come true" adventure -as in the ballooning tragedy where 5 couples perished.

The period of risk related to this combination may even extend, on a lesser scale, into early February 2012.

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Costa Concordia   initial timeline    January 13-14 2012  via National Post, Canada

7:00 pm (1800 GMT): The ship sets sail from Civitavecchia.

8:35 pm: The Costa Concordia is approaching the island of Giglio.

9:30 pm: The ship strikes rocks some 300 metres from Giglio Island

9:35 pm: Power loss means lights go out

9:45 pm: First alarm: two long whistles and one short to alert crew

9:50 pm: The ship begins to list, indicating more clearly the state of emergency

10:00 pm: Passengers seek access to the fourth deck where the lifeboats are located.  Captain Francesco Schettino attempts to proceed the ship towards shore.

10:10 pm: Seven short whistles and one long provide the Abandon Ship alert. Deployment of lifeboats begins

10:20 pm: Coastguard rescue operation commences. Locals turn out en masse to assist. Passengers have already begun self evacuating by jumping into the sea.

11:15 pm: The first lifeboat reaches Giglio. The Mayor of Giglio says Police Chief saw Capt. Schettino sitting on rocks in front of the ship shortly after 11pm.

11:40 pm: Media reports say Captain Francesco Schettino is found ashore.

Saturday, January 14

2:30 am: Some 300 people remain aboard awaiting evacuation.

update September 15 2013
Salvage is to begin - report
update September 17 2013
The recovery phase has been successful in terms of righting the ship to a vertical position.
Footage of the vertical ship:

Time Lapse video of the operation:

References :
Timeline -full details

Picture Gallery

Other recent shipping dramas

Relevant Full Moon analysis January 2012
Relevant Eclipse analysis December 2011