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« Reply #120 on: January 25, 2012, 09:08:53 PM »

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/25/costa-concordia-captain-not-a-monster-wife-says/
Costa Concordia Captain not a ‘monster,’ wife says
January 25, 2012


Rotterdam based SMIT and Livorno based NERI salvage workers start their work of diesel recovery on a pontoon from the the cruise ship Costa Concordia that lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio on January 24, 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy. More than four thousand people were on board when the ship hit a rock off the Tuscan coast. The official death toll now stands at 15, with a further 24 people still missing. The diesel recovery operation will start Wednesday, while the rescue operation continues.
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« Reply #121 on: January 26, 2012, 09:46:30 AM »


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/list-of-dead-or-missing-from-the-costa-concordia-cruise-ship-that-grounded-off-italy/2012/01/26/gIQANUBMSQ_story.html
List of dead or missing from the Costa Concordia cruise ship that grounded off Italy
January 26, 2012

A list of those confirmed dead or missing in the grounding of the cruise ship Costa Concordia off Italy. Italian officials released a list of the missing. Those not listed as crew are passengers.
(see list at link)

CONFIRMED DEAD (16):
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Three other bodies that have been recovered from the wreckage but not identified.

UNACCOUNTED FOR (List includes names of three bodies awaiting identification)
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« Reply #122 on: January 26, 2012, 12:56:04 PM »

http://gozonews.com/21637/afm-officer-joins-costa-concordia-eu-*******-mission/
AFM officer joins Costa Concordia EU ******* Mission
January 26, 2012

Colonel Emanuel Mallia of the Armed Forces of Malta has been selected by the EU’s Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) to participate in the EU ******* Mission in Italy in relation to the Costa Concordia cruise liner incident. Due to complexity of the emergency, the Italian Civil Protection has invited a small EU mission to observe the rescue and marine pollution operations, and to draft a short report with the main findings in order to share lessons learned with all Participating States.

As a Search and Rescue Expert, Col Mallia will join experts in other disciplines from Italy, France and Norway. The ******* mission starts today and is expected to draw to a close on Sunday, 29 January 2012.
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« Reply #123 on: January 26, 2012, 03:08:29 PM »

http://www.cruise-community.com/News/News-Headlines/After-Concordia-more-cruise-line-CEOs-speak-out-on-safety-specifics.html

After Concordia, more cruise line CEOs speak out on safety specifics

The latest ceos to speak publicly about the Costa Concordia tragedy and assure passengers that safety is their top priority include Norwegian Cruise Line’s Kevin Sheehan, Celebrity Cruises’ Dan Hanrahan and Princess Cruises’ Alan Buckelew. Sheehan and Hanrahan go beyond outlining safety practices to stress the experience of their captains and bridge teams.

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« Reply #124 on: January 26, 2012, 08:35:36 PM »

http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/story/2012-01-26/Question-loom-over-Costa-Concordia-disaster/52808568/1?csp=34news
Questions loom over Costa Concordia disaster
By Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
January 26, 2012

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« Reply #125 on: January 27, 2012, 11:06:54 AM »

$14,500.00.  What a cheap offer.  There are 16 confirmed dead and at least that many missing, and no accounting yet for the injured.  After watching some of the video clips taken of passengers waiting for a lifeboat I feel they may have truly wondered if they were going to die.  They're covering the cost of the cruise ticket & transportation and food and lodging while people were ashore.  What about folks that have used up vacation time?  Instead of being on a cruise, they fought for their life.  When will they have time off again?  What is time worth?  What is pain and suffering worth?  I'm not a money grubber, but what a cheap offer.    For the people that lost personal items, such as passports, clothing, shoes, etc., how will that be compensated?  When the airlines lost my two bags and a duffle full of dive gear on my trip back from the Bahamas, the maximum was $400.00.  My hard side cases and heavy duty duffle cost that.    When my stuff showed up a month later, my clothes were mildewed, the duffle had been cut open and all the good stuff out, one jacket had a dirty shoe print on it and they had the gall to ask over the phone for their $400.00 back, since my bags were recovered.  No, I didn't give it back.  I had given them a list of contents, along with receipts.  A lot of good stuff was in those bags because it was over Christmas/New Years.  The agent rolled his eyes when I gave him the list.  When I later opened my bags at the airport in front of the agent and he saw what my stuff was and looked like, that pretty well shut him up.  He didn't ask for the $400.00 back after that.  

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0127/Costa-Concordia-company-to-offer-compensation-to-ship-passengers
Costa Concordia company to offer compensation to ship passengers
Costa Cruises has negotiated with consumer groups compensation worth thousands of dollars to passengers who were aboard the Costa Concordia when it ran aground earlier this month off the Italian coast.
By Steve Scherer, Reuters
January 27, 2012

Costa Cruises has offered to pay $14,500 in compensation to each of the more than 3,000 passengers aboard the ship that capsized near the island of Giglio two weeks ago, Italian consumer groups said on Friday.
The offer, negotiated by the consumer groups, is an attempt by Costa Cruises to limit the legal fallout of the accident.

Each passenger would also receive a refund on the cruise and costs of their return home. The offer applies to all passengers, whether a child or an adult, who suffered no physical injuries. Injured passengers will be dealt with individually.
Those accepting the offer would have to agree to drop all future litigation, and receive payment within seven days.

Costa Cruises' U.S. parent company Carnival Plc is already facing legal action for compensation.

Codacons, a consumer group which did not participate in the negotiation, is collecting names for a class action suit to be filed in Miami requesting 125,000 euros for each passenger.

Carlo Rienzi, president of Codacons, said the offer was insufficient and urged passengers to see a doctor to check whether they had suffered psychological trauma.
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« Reply #126 on: January 27, 2012, 01:13:49 PM »

This headline is all wrong imo.  What happened on the Costa Cordia was much, much more than just an inconvenience or a cancelled trip, and so much more than a "ruined cruise".  It's not like the ship went into port and let people off in the usual fashion.  Folks had to be evacuated on life boats, by helicopter and etc.  There were injuries and lives lost.  JMHO "Ruined cruise" is minimizing the situation, again, JMHO  The paltry offer of $14,500.00 is making the cruise line look even worse, imo.

http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/story/2012-01-27/Costa-offers-145K-per-passenger-for-ruined-cruise/52813600/1
Costa offers $14.5K per passenger for ruined cruise
January 27, 2012

ROME (AP) – Costa Crociere SpA offered uninjured passengers €11,000, or $14,460, apiece Friday to compensate them for lost baggage and the psychological trauma they suffered after their cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany.
But some passengers are already refusing to accept the deal, saying they can't yet put a figure on the costs of the trauma they endured.

Costa announced the offer after negotiations with consumer groups who say they are representing 3,206 passengers from 61 countries who suffered no physical harm when the massive Costa Concordia cruise ship hit a reef on Jan. 13.
In addition to the lump-sum indemnity, Costa, a unit of the world's biggest cruise operator, the Miami-based Carnival Corp., also said it would reimburse uninjured passengers the full costs of their cruise, their return travel expenses and any medical expenses they sustained after the grounding.

The deal does not apply to the hundreds of crew on the ship, many of whom have lost their jobs, the roughly 100 people who were injured in the chaotic evacuation or the families who lost loved ones. Sixteen bodies have already been recovered from the disaster and another 16 people who were on board are missing and presumed dead.

Passengers are free to pursue legal action on their own if they aren't satisfied with the deal and it was clear Friday — two weeks after the grounding — that some would.
"We're very worried about the children," said Claudia Urru of Cagliari, Sardinia, who was on board the ship with her husband and two sons aged 3 and 12. Her eldest child, she said, is seeing a psychiatrist: He won't speak about the incident or even look at television footage of the grounding.

"He's terrorized at night," she told The Associated Press. "He can't go to the bathroom alone. We're all sleeping together, except my husband, who has gone into another room because we don't all fit."

As a result, she said, her family has retained a lawyer because they don't know what the real impact — financial or otherwise — of the trauma will be. She said her family simply isn't able to make such decisions now.
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« Reply #127 on: January 27, 2012, 03:20:19 PM »

Rut-roh!

http://www.independent.ie/business/european/italian-priest-on-concordia-cruise-caught-out-lying-to-parishioners-about-retreat-3002256.html
Italian priest on Concordia cruise caught out lying to parishioners about retreat
By Nick Squires
January 27, 2012

AN ITALIAN priest has a lot of explaining to do after telling his parishioners he was going on a spiritual retreat, only for it to be revealed that he was on the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship.

Father Massimo Donghi told his parishioners that he was heading off for a week of contemplation and prayer, but instead boarded the luxury liner at Civitavecchia, north of Rome, for a luxury cruise of Mediterranean ports.

He was found out when his nephew, who was also on the cruise, posted assurances on Facebook that the priest had survived the disaster.

The nephew told worried friends and relatives that he, his uncle and the priest's elderly mother had managed to get into lifeboats when the 1,000ft liner ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio.
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Father Donghi, who joined the priesthood after studying at a theological seminary in Milan, will now have to explain himself to his parishioners in Besana Brianza, near Monza in northern Italy.

Church-goers had imagined he had signed up for a week of simple living and religious devotion, rather than a cruise on board a ship which boasts spas, saunas, jacuzzis, four swimming pools, five restaurants, 13 bars, a casino and a discotheque.

“What do you want me to say?” the priest told an Italian news magazine, Panorama. “I have nothing to add. I’m OK although I’m still a bit in shock. I will talk to my parishioners in church. The judgment of others is not important to me.”

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« Reply #128 on: January 27, 2012, 03:22:53 PM »

http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/event/article/id/26637/group/News/
Search for Heils complicated by difficult conditions
By: Katrina Styx, The Hastings Star-Gazette
January 27, 2012

More passengers have been recovered from the wreck of the Costa Concordia, which sank off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, earlier this month, but the parents of Hastings resident Sara Heil are still among the missing.

The Heil family posted an update Jan. 25 on the search on their blog, heilfamilyupdate.com , describing the events as they wait. The family is watching the search first-hand from Italy.
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They described difficult conditions that are causing the search to drag on longer and longer – divers are searching 60 feet under the surface inside the ship in darkness that reduces visibility dramatically, and after each dive have to go through decompression, which delays their ability to return to the water.
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« Reply #129 on: January 27, 2012, 03:24:41 PM »

http://heilfamilyupdate.wordpress.com/
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« Reply #130 on: January 27, 2012, 09:39:34 PM »

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/austin-couple-safely-home-from-harrowing-italian-cruise-2130851.html
Austin couple safely home from harrowing Italian cruise
By Ciara O'Rourke
January 27, 2012

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« Reply #131 on: January 28, 2012, 08:07:09 AM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16773052
Costa Concordia: Woman's body found, bringing toll to 17
January 28, 2012

The Costa Concordia is still lying on its side off Giglio island

Divers searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in Italy have found the body of a woman, bringing the death toll to 17.

The body was found in a submerged part of the vessel, which ran aground off the Tuscan coast with more than 4,200 people on board, on 13 January.


Another 15 people are still missing.

The operation to start emptying fuel tanks has been halted because of bad weather. Salvage crews are expecting to resume work early next week.

Dutch salvage company SMIT has withdrawn a barge that had been placed alongside the hulk of the Costa Concordia.
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« Reply #132 on: January 28, 2012, 08:09:53 AM »

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/24405/new-body-found-in-costa-concordia-wreck
New body found in Costa Concordia wreck
January 28, 2012

GIGLIO ISLAND—Divers found a 17th body in the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia Saturday, leaving 15 people still missing, authorities said.

Italy’s civil defense organization said the woman’s body had been located on Deck six, in the submerged part of the vessel and was being brought out.
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Of the 17 bodies found, 14 have been identified
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« Reply #133 on: January 28, 2012, 08:13:38 AM »

http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/article/id/55020/
New England prayer service to be held for missing couple
By: April Baumgarten, The Dickinson Press
January 28, 2012

Hopes to find survivors aboard a luxury cruise ship that capsized off the coast of Italy two weeks ago are dwindling, officials said, but former classmates of a missing Minnesota couple are keeping the two in their prayers.

“We have to assume they are not going to be found alive anymore, but you can’t help but keep hoping,” New England resident Carol Robinson said Friday.

Gerald and Barbara Heil of White Bear Lake, Minn., were on board the Costa Concordia cruise ship that struck a reef near Tuscany on Jan. 13. Gerald, 69, and Barbara, 70, are among the 16 people missing and are the only Americans missing from the tragedy.
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A prayer service and vigil will be held for the missing couple 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, said Robinson, a former classmate.
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http://heilfamilyupdate.wordpress.com/
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« Reply #134 on: January 28, 2012, 09:05:40 AM »

The below video clip notes the seventeenth victim found was a woman without a life jacket. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16772806
Woman's body found on cruise ship
January 28, 2012

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« Reply #135 on: January 28, 2012, 11:59:51 AM »

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/28/world/europe/italy-cruise-ship/
Woman's body found in wrecked Italy cruise ship
From Livia Borghese, CNN
January 28, 2012

Rome (CNN) -- A woman's body was found Saturday in the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship, Italian officials said, taking the number of people confirmed dead to 17.
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Francesca Maffini, a spokeswoman for the civil protection agency, said Saturday that 15 of the bodies found had been identified. The latest woman to be found was wearing a uniform, she said, suggesting she may have been a member of the ship's 1,000-strong crew.
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« Reply #136 on: January 28, 2012, 07:07:01 PM »

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/divers-find-17th-body-from-costa-concordia-1.3486562

Video:  Wrecked Ship Interior Jan. 19, 2012
http://www.newsday.com/news/wrecked-ship-interior-1.3463107
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« Reply #137 on: January 28, 2012, 07:09:24 PM »

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQHOKDSV8BMQewyoMFW2Fow0FXlQ?docId=CNG.2df6e7c373564e8707ae008497defb77.401
Body found as bad weather delays liner fuel pumping
By Ljubomir Milasin (AFP)
January 28, 2012

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Despite rough weather, recovery work continued and divers pulled the body of another victim from a submerged deck on the stricken ship.

She was not immediately identified. Italy's civil defence organisation said the woman was discovered on deck six in the submerged part of the vessel.

The Costa Concordia ran aground on rocks with some 4,200 people aboard and is lying on its side off the Tuscan island of Giglio. Fifteen people remain missing.

Authorities on Saturday said another woman, whose identity had not previously been released, was German passenger Inge Schall.


Of the 17 bodies found, 15 have now been identified. They are: five Germans, four French people, three Italians, a Hungarian, a Spaniard and a Peruvian.
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« Reply #138 on: January 29, 2012, 01:41:42 PM »

http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/story/2012-01-29/Rough-seas-still-delay-work-on-grounded-Italian-liner/52867316/1
Officials: Up to 10 months to remove capsized cruise ship
January 29, 2012
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Officials called off both the start of operations to remove of 500,000 gallons of fuel and the search for people still missing after determining the Costa Concordia had moved four centimeters (an inch and a half) over six hours, coupled with waves of more than one meter (three feet).

A 17th body, identified as Peruvian crew member Erika Soria Molina, was found Saturday. Sixteen crew and passengers remain listed as missing, with one body recovered from the ship not yet identified.
Officials have virtually ruled out finding anyone alive more than two weeks after the Costa Concordia hit a reef, but were reluctant to give a final death toll for the Jan. 13 disaster.
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University of Florence professor Riccardo Fanti said the ship's movements could either be caused by the ship settling on its own weight, slipping deeper into the seabed, or both. He also could not rule out the ship's sliding along the seabed.

Gabrielli noted that the body of a man recovered from the ship remains unidentified, despite efforts to obtain DNA samples from all of the missing, meaning that officials cannot preclude that the deceased is someone unknown to authorities. Costa has said that it runs strict procedures that would preclude the presence of any unregistered passengers.

Experts have said it would take 28 days to remove fuel from 15 tanks accounting for more than 80 percent of all fuel on board the ship. The next job would be to target the engine room, which contains nearly 350 cubic meters of diesel, fuel and other lubricants, Gabrielli said.

Only once the fuel is removed can work begin on removing the ship, either floating it in one piece or cutting it up and towing it away as a wreck. Costa has begun the process for taking bids for the recovery operation, a process that will take two months.

Gabrielli said the actual removal will take from seven to 10 months — meaning that the wreck will be visible from the coast of the island of Giglio for the entire summer tourism season.
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« Reply #139 on: January 29, 2012, 01:47:22 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9047774/Costa-Concordia-will-take-10-months-to-be-removed.html
Costa Concordia will take 10 months to be removed
January 29, 2012

Officials called off both the start of operations to remove of 500,000 gallons of fuel and the search for people still missing after determining the Costa Concordia had moved an inch and a half over six hours, coupled with waves of more than three feet.

A 17th body, identified as Peruvian crew member Erika Soria Molina, was found Saturday. Sixteen crew and passengers remain listed as missing, with one body recovered from the ship not yet identified.

Officials have virtually ruled out finding anyone alive more than two weeks after the Costa Concordia hit a reef, but were reluctant to give a final death toll for the Jan. 13 disaster.
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Mr Gabrielli noted that the body of a man recovered from the ship remains unidentified, despite efforts to obtain DNA samples from all of the missing, meaning that officials cannot preclude that the deceased is someone unknown to authorities. Costa has said that it runs strict procedures that would preclude the presence of any unregistered passengers.
Experts have said it would take 28 days to remove fuel from 15 tanks accounting for more than 80 per cent of all fuel on board the ship. The next job would be to target the engine room, which contains nearly 350 cubic meters of diesel, fuel and other lubricants, Gabrielli said.

Only once the fuel is removed can work begin on removing the ship, either floating it in one piece or cutting it up and towing it away as a wreck. Costa has begun the process for taking bids for the recovery operation, a process that will take two months.

Mr Gabrielli said the actual removal will take from seven to 10 months – meaning that the wreck will be visible from the coast of the Italian island of Giglio for the entire summer tourism season.
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