Nat Geo First on the Scene for 'Disaster'

The cable network is rushing a 'Costa Concordia' doc to air

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Less than a month after the Carnival Cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the Tuscan coastline, the National Geographic Channel is on the scene with a refurbished documentary about the incident, appropriately titled Italian Cruise Ship Disaster: The Untold Stories, beating out Discovery's already announced project on the same topic.

The Nat Geo show, set to air Feb. 13 at 10 p.m., is a tweaked version of British insta-special on the event, Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Concordia, a special that Dragonfly TV made for the U.K.'s

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