Carnival Offers Costa Survivors $14,460 Apiece

That's not even a third of what you get for winning on Wipeout.

So, how much money would it take for you to go through the life-threatening experience of escaping a capsizing cruise ship with no instruction of how to do so? $100,000? Carnival Corp., though, has pegged that figure at just over $14,000, their offer to all of the (surviving, uninjured) vacationers who were aboard the Costa Concordia when it ran aground last week. That's in addition to refunds for the cost of the cruise, and injured passengers will undoubtedly get more, but that $14,000 doesn't seem to have settled to well with some of the survivors. An Italian consumer advocacy group is planning to launch a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. against Miami-based Carnival that will reportedly seek anywhere between $164,000 to $1.3 million per passenger. All told, 3,229 passengers were aboard the ship when it crashed. Sixteen have been confirmed as dead, while another 16 people are still missing and presumed dead.