Ep. - 1666 - SHIPWRECKED: NIGHTMARE AT SEA
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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True crime author, podcaster, and journalism professor Kate Winkler Dawson, host of Tenfold More Wicked, Wicked Words, and co-host of Buried Bones, joins Kate to unpack Netflix's new documentary Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea, which revisits the 2012 sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy, a disaster that killed 32 people.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey. |
| 0:07.6 | Today's episode is about shipwrecked on Netflix. |
| 0:11.3 | On the night of January 13th, 2012, a luxury cruise ship called the Costa Concordia |
| 0:16.3 | was sailing off the western coast of Italy, carrying close to 4,000 people, |
| 0:22.7 | about 3,200 passengers, |
| 0:29.9 | and nearly 1,000 crew members, families on vacation, honeymooners, retirees, a married couple named Megan and John Simone, traveling with their 14-month-old baby. It was supposed to be a routine night, |
| 0:36.4 | but instead the ship deviated from its approved course, sailing far closer to the island of Giulio than it should have, and struck submerged rocks. |
| 0:45.2 | The whole tore open and within minutes the ship began taking on water, and not long after it rolled onto its side and partially capsized just off the island's coast. |
| 0:56.4 | What followed was chaos. |
| 1:02.0 | Passengers described furniture crashing across tilting decks. The simonies with their infant in their arms had to dodge debris while trying to find a way off the ship. And at one point, a piece of |
| 1:07.3 | tumbling furniture struck their baby. Survivors talk about scrambling through corridors that had gone sideways, |
| 1:13.9 | about lifeboats that couldn't be launched because of the ship's angle, |
| 1:17.5 | about the surreal experience of a luxury vacation turning in the space of an hour |
| 1:22.1 | into a fight to get off of a sinking ship in the middle of the night, |
| 1:26.2 | and by the time it was over, |
| 1:27.9 | 32 people were dead. At the center of the story is the ship's captain, Francesco Scatino. |
| 1:34.2 | Investigators would later determine that the ship's course deviation was tied to what's been |
| 1:38.6 | described as an unauthorized sail by, a maneuver bringing the ship close to shore essentially is a salute to the island. |
| 1:46.9 | Skatina was ultimately convicted of manslaughter, along with causing the shipwreck and abandoning |
| 1:51.6 | ship before all passengers had been evacuated. He left the vessel while people were still on board. |
| 1:58.0 | Five other crew members were also convicted on charges including manslaughter and negligence, |
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