The wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia in Italycomes just before the one hundredth anniversaryof a much worse disaster at sea.This April will mark a centurysince the wreck of the Titanic.The Titanic was the biggest cruise ship of its time.It struck an iceberg on its way from England to New York.The ship was carrying more than two thousand people.Most of them died.The sinking of the Titanicnot only led to major motion pictures.The Titanic disaster led to new requirementsincluding safety training for passengerswithin twenty-four hours of sailing.The passengers on the Concordia had been at seafor just a few hours when it struck rocksoff Italy's northwestern coast last Friday night.Their safety training had been planned for the next day.Passengers say the ship turned onto its side so quicklythat many lifeboats could not be lowered into the water.Passengers were sitting down to late dinnerwhen the ship hits rocks.They were told the ship was having electrical problems.Some said there was no organizationamong the crew during the crisis.Some people jumped into the cold sea and swam toward land.There were four thousand two hundred passengersand crew members on the ship.Rescuers used lifeboats and helicoptersto take most of them to the island of Giglioand to Porto Santo Stefano on the mainland.Officials said at least eleven people diedand twenty-one others were missing.Movements of the grounded ship and concernsabout bad weather have interfered with effortsby divers to search underwater areas.The concern is that the shipcould move off its rocky resting placeand slide into deeper water.Bad weather could also delay work to remove fuelfrom the ship and protect the environmentalong the Tuscan coast.The ship is part of Carnival,the world's largest operator of cruise ships.Carnival is based in the American city of Miami, Florida.Its one hundred one ships carryabout half of the world's fifteen millionsea-going tourists each year.Carnival Corporation says it will closely examine safetyat all of its cruise lines, including Costa Cruises,which operated the Concordia.Shortly after the accident, the ship's ownersblamed the captain of the Concordia.They said he had made an unapproved change in directionand brought the ship too close to the coast.A judge released Captain Francesco Schettinofrom jail on Tuesday and placed him under house arrest.He faces charges of causing deaths and fleeing his shipbefore all the passengers were rescued.A recording of an exchange with an Italian coast guard officershowed that Captain Schettinorefused orders to get back on the ship.Coast Guard Captain Gregory De Falcodemanded that Captain Schettinouse a ladder to climb back onto the Concordiaand report how many people were still on the ship.But Captain Schettino said he was not going anywhere,that it was too dark.He said he was handling the rescue from a lifeboat.An angry Captain De Falco shoutedthat Captain Schettino was "going to pay" for his actions.And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.