{"product_id":"shipwrecked-randall-fuquay-9798186797678","title":"Shipwrecked: Abandon Ship: The Costa Concordia Disaster and the Decisions That Changed Everything","description":"At 9:45 p.m. on January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia was carrying more than 4,200 people past a small Tuscan island when her captain made a decision that would end in the worst cruise ship disaster in modern history.\u003cbr\u003eHe wanted to give the island a show: a close pass along the coast, engines slowed, horn sounding in tribute to a retired mentor and a crew member's hometown. He had done it before. This time, the ship's hull met a charted rock at fifteen knots, tearing a 53-meter gash below the waterline and flooding five compartments in minutes. Within the hour, the ship had lost all power and stability, and she was drifting toward the shore she was never supposed to touch.\u003cbr\u003eWhat followed was chaos. Passengers scrambled through corridors tilted past thirty degrees. Lifeboats hung uselessly over the wrong side of a capsizing hull. Families were separated in the dark. And a captain left before hundreds of his own passengers did, refusing for hours to return even as a coast guard commander screamed four words into the phone that would follow him for the rest of his life: \"vada a bordo, cazzo.\" Get back on board, for God's sake.\u003cbr\u003eThirty-two people never made it home.\u003cbr\u003eBuilt from court testimony, the official Italian investigation, and years of documented reporting, Abandon Ship reconstructs the disaster minute by minute. It traces the culture of quiet rule-breaking that made the collision possible, the crew members who stayed when their captain did not, and the two and a half year, record-breaking salvage operation it took to raise a 114,000-ton wreck off the ocean floor.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story behind the headlines. This is what actually happened on the Costa Concordia.\u003cbr\u003eRead it, then decide for yourself who is really to blame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randall Fuquay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798186797678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Randall Fuquay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174354657535,"sku":"9798186797678","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6634a1ca-3030-4b66-8042-d268afbb7157.jpg?v=1788959220","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shipwrecked-randall-fuquay-9798186797678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}