The court was also expected to rule on the admissibility of the captain's phone intercepts at the police station following his detention right after the shipwreck.

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Yet the episode has focused attention on cruise-ship safety, little more than a year after the Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy that killed 32 people.

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Medoro also appears on the island, near death after a shipwreck.

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After a legal battle, a Tampa judge ruled that the entire shipwreck was indeed the property of Spain.

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