The Costa Concordia cruise liner - stranded after it hit a reef off the Italian coast in January.<br/> <br />This amateur footage from inside the vessel shows passengers being urged to stay calm.<br/> <br />(UPSOT OF announcer voice telling them the situation is under control)<br/> <br />But unfortunately the situation was not under control.<br/> <br />At least 25 people lost their lives in the accident with seven still unaccounted for, despite weeks of rescue operations.<br/> <br />Today, pre-trial hearings into the accident, including evidence from the ship's black box recorders, open in this theater in the Italian city of Grosseto.<br/> <br />Prosecutors accuse this man, Captain Francesco Schettino, of causing the disaster by bringing the giant vessel too close to shore .<br/> <br />Schettino is also accused of abandoning ship before the evacuation of more than 4200 passengers and crew was complete.<br/> <br />The ship's first officer and seven officers and executives of the operator Costa Cruises are also under investigation.<br/> <br />Costa's problems don't end there - the company, along with parent company Carnival Corp, face a wave of civil suits from the victims' families and crew members aboard the ship.<br/> <br />And another of Costa's ships - the Allegra - has brought the company into further disrepute.<br/> <br />That liner was left adrift for three days in the Indian Ocean with over 600 passengers after a fire knocked out the vessel's main power supply.<br/> <br />Sunita Rappai
