Friday 13 – not a good date for the superstitious. Very bad news for everybody on the Costa Concordia that sank on Friday 13, 2012 near the Italian island of Giglio.

I only learned about the tragedy half an hour ago when I checked the National Austrian News Network orf.at. Only minutes after I had eagerly studied a brochure about cruise travels, and as always marveled by the apparently cheap prices usually associated with them.

Most of my first research is that of a totally unrelated bystander.

This is just a collection of screenshots demonstrating how I went about my research of the tragedy. No words, just pics.

Please do make up your own mind.

My deepest condolences to everybody harmed or struck.

 I learn about the accident.

I want pictures. Head off to the corporate website. (Note: typical behaviour of a social web consultant!)

Company displays brief message on the tragedy prominently.

No news or referral to tragedy on blog nor Facebook-page. But blog has not been updated since October, hence bears no big role in communication tool box.

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 The bystander is eager for pictures. Off to Twitter. “Costa Concordia” is world trend. Which makes further research easy.

Just one click leads to the collection of pictures I was looking for.

Here are more pictures and international news sources, also by people and travelers involved, than any network could provide (in such short time).