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« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2012, 04:53:04 PM »

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5in3Q11Q43M2FkDrkBXjrWDIdxj7w?docId=52a1cf551a1644f0a2efd13d0d803972
Officials: 29 people missing from Italian ship
January 16, 2012

ROME (AP) — Italian coast guard officials say the number of people missing from the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner has risen to 29.

A top coast guard official, Marco Brusco, said on state TV that 25 passengers and four crew members are unaccounted for three days after the ship crashed into a reef off the Tuscan coast and capsized.

Earlier in the day that number stood at 16.

Brusco didn't immediately explain the rise.
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2012, 05:06:05 PM »

I would consider this speculation until the investigation is complete.  JMHO

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/preplanned-cruise-stunt-flagged-on-facebook-20120117-1q3n7.html
'Pre-planned' cruise stunt flagged on Facebook
Megan Levy
January 17, 2012

The captain of a luxury cruise liner that capsized off Italy's coast may have steered the ship too close to shore so that its head waiter could salute his family in a pre-planned stunt that was posted on Facebook.

Just minutes before the Costa Concordia struck rocks and began taking on water, the head waiter's sister updated her Facebook status to say: "In a short period of time the Concordia ship will pass very close. A big greeting to my brother who finally gets to have a holiday on landing in Savona.
'Pre-planned' cruise stunt flagged on Facebook
Megan Levy
January 17, 2012 - 7:39AM

Italy cruise CEO blames disaster on 'human error'

Carnival Corp, the owner of the cruise ship that capsized off Italy's west coast, says the captain did not follow the authorised route which is used by Costa ships.


The captain of a luxury cruise liner that capsized off Italy's coast may have steered the ship too close to shore so that its head waiter could salute his family in a pre-planned stunt that was posted on Facebook.

Just minutes before the Costa Concordia struck rocks and began taking on water, the head waiter's sister updated her Facebook status to say: "In a short period of time the Concordia ship will pass very close. A big greeting to my brother who finally gets to have a holiday on landing in Savona."


At least six people were killed in the accident, with 14 people still missing and fears that a fuel leak could cause an ecological disaster in the area.

Captain Francesco Schettino, 52, reportedly invited the head waiter, Antonello Tievoli, on to the bridge as he steered the vessel towards the coast of Giglio on Friday night.

"Come and see, Antonello, we're right in front of Giglio," the captain told Mr Tievoli shortly before the crash, according to Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
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Captain Schettino may have performed the sail-past also as a salute to an old colleague, a former admiral from the cruise line, who was not even on Giglio on Friday night.

Claims have emerged that a similarly close "sail-past" last year prompted a mayor to send a congratulatory email to the captain for helping entertain the island's tourists.
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Underwater chaos ... A diver makes his way through floating pieces of furniture inside the cruise ship. Photo: AP

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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2012, 06:24:20 PM »

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/01/16/how-to-pick-cruise-line-for-safety/
How to pick a cruise line for safety
By Paul Motter
January 16, 2012

 ::snipping2:: ...International maritime law says a ship must hold its muster drill within 24 hours of sail-away. There are cruise lines that conduct it before the cruise even begins. Although it did nothing illegal, Concordia proved it is possible to have a life or death event long before the 24-hour limit expires.
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« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2012, 06:51:27 PM »

I don't know if it was mentioned, but The Achille Lauro was also a Costa Cruise Line ship.

 
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« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2012, 06:52:56 PM »

I don't know if it was mentioned, but The Achille Lauro was also a Costa Cruise Line ship.

 

That's very sad jamcakes.  I didn't know that.   
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« Reply #25 on: January 16, 2012, 06:55:23 PM »

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-16/costa-races-to-remove-fuel-avoid-oil-spill-from-stricken-ship.html
Costa Races to Remove Fuel, Avoid Oil Spill From Stricken Ship
By Alessandra Migliaccio and Marco Bertacche
January 16, 2012

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« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2012, 06:58:02 PM »

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« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2012, 07:41:06 PM »



thanks...

I sure hope that they do not give up on survivors on this ship..there could be people trapped waiting to be rescued..
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« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2012, 09:41:57 PM »

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpps/news/captain-didnt-respond-to-rescue-order-dpgonc-20110116-to_17112557
Ship's Captain Reportedly Didn't Respond to Italian Official's Rescue Order
January 16, 2012

(AFP) - The captain of a luxury liner that hit a rock and keeled over off the coast of Tuscany, killing at least six, did not respond to an order to return on board to oversee rescue operations, according to a taped telephone conversation released Monday.

ANSA news agency said Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia, was evasive when ordered by a port official to supervise the rescue hours after the disaster Friday while several hundred people were still trapped on board.
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ANSA also said there was a kind of "mutiny" among the crew which decided on an evacuation before being given formal orders by the captain.
Schettino was arrested on Saturday along with first officer Ciro Ambrosio. They face possible charges of homicide and abandoning ship before all the passengers were rescued.
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« Reply #29 on: January 16, 2012, 10:13:01 PM »

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/16/world/europe/italy-cruise-main/?hpt=hp_t2
Italian cruise ship captain to be questioned; 29 remain missing
By Dan Rivers, CNN
January 16, 2012

Giglio, Italy (CNN) -- The captain of the cruise ship that wrecked off Italy's western coast will be questioned by authorities Tuesday at a hearing, his attorney said.

Francesco Schettino is under arrest and may face charges that include manslaughter, shipwreck, and abandoning a ship when passengers were still on board, according to Italian prosecutor Francesco Verusio.

Schettino could face up to 15 years in prison, he said.

At the closed hearing, a preliminary investigation judge will decide whether Schettino will remain detained. The captain has not yet been questioned, but more than 100 witnesses, including passengers and crew, have been interviewed, the prosecutor said.

The captain's attorney, Bruno Leporatti, said in a statement Monday that Schettino was "shattered, dismayed, saddened for the loss of lives and strongly disturbed."

But, he said, Schettino is "nonetheless comforted by the fact that he maintained during those moments the necessary lucidity to put in place a difficult emergency maneuver ... bringing the ship to shallow waters." That move, Leporatti said, saved the lives of many passengers and crew members.

Italian prosecutors have ruled out a technical error as the cause of the incident, saying the captain was on the bridge at the time and had made a "grave error."
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Prosecutors are examining the ship's data recorder and expect to have results within days, Verusio said.

They are also considering whether others may share responsibility for the crash with the captain.

Foschi placed blame for the wreck squarely on the captain, however, saying Schettino had deviated from frequently traveled routes.

"The captain decided to change the route and he went into water that he did not know in advance," Foschi said.

He said the company was limited in its ability to investigate the incident because it did not have the data recorder.
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« Reply #30 on: January 17, 2012, 09:59:40 AM »

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/transcript-italian-cruise-captain-ordered-back-boat/story?id=15376951
Cruise Transcript: 'Get Back on Board for [Expletive] Sake!'
January 17, 2012

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« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2012, 10:02:46 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/16/missing-raised-to-2-in-italian-cruise-disaster/
5 More Bodies Reportedly Found in Wrecked Italian Cruise Ship
January 17, 2012

Five more bodies have been found in the capsized cruise ship off the coast of Italy, Sky News reports, bringing the death toll to 11.

Teams have been searching the ship for passengers and crew missing since the Costa Concordia struck rocks Friday evening and capsized. Rescuers exploded four holes in the hull of the ship earlier Tuesday to gain easier access to areas that had not yet been searched.

Before the latest find, 29 people from the cruise ship were still missing. Officials said the missing included 14 Germans, six Italians, four French, two Americans, one Hungarian, one Indian and one Peruvian.
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« Reply #32 on: January 17, 2012, 08:26:02 PM »

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57360077/5-more-bodies-found-on-costa-concordia/
5 more bodies found on Costa Concordia
January 17, 2012

ROME - Five more bodies were pulled Tuesday from the wreckage of a crippled cruise ship off Tuscany
, and a shocking audio emerged in which the ship's captain was heard making excuses as the Italian coast guard repeatedly ordered him to return to oversee his ship's evacuation.
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The death toll nearly doubled to 11 on Tuesday when divers extracted five more bodies, all of them adults wearing life jackets, from the rear of the ship near an emergency evacuation point, according to Italian Coast Guard Cmdr. Cosimo Nicastro. He said they were thought to have been passengers.
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« Reply #33 on: January 18, 2012, 12:17:36 AM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16604154
Concordia disaster: House arrest for Captain Schettino
January 17, 2012
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« Reply #34 on: January 18, 2012, 12:24:30 PM »

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-18/concordia-captain-took-ship-off-route-document-shows.html
Concordia Captain Took Ship Off Route, Document Shows
By Chiara Vasarri and Marco Bertacche
January 18, 2012

Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The captain of a Carnival Corp. ship that ran aground off Italy told a judge yesterday that he made a mistake by steering too close to Giglio island, according to a court document obtained by Bloomberg News.

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia, failed to promptly advise the Italian Coast guard after he struck rocks along the coast and later allegedly abandoned the ship carrying 4,200 passengers and crew with at least 100 people still aboard, according to yesterday’s ruling by Judge Valeria Montesarchio putting him under house arrest. She rejected the prosecutor’s request to keep him in jail.

“The captain has always been there in front of his ship, albeit on the shore, to coordinate operations,” Bruno Leporatti, Schettino’s lawyer, said at a press conference today broadcast by SkyTG24. Schettino said he made an emergency maneuver after hitting the rocks to prevent the ship from heading out to sea and sinking, according to the document.

Judge Montesarchio said the 51-year-old captain admitted that he deviated from the ship’s programmed route, coming 0.28 nautical miles from the coast. He then allegedly refused pleas from a Coast Guard official to return to the ship, the document shows. He “underestimated the damage” and gave the evacuation order more than an hour after the ship hit rocks by the island, delaying rescue operations, according to the document.
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Judge Montesarchio said the 51-year-old captain admitted that he deviated from the ship’s programmed route, coming 0.28 nautical miles from the coast. He then allegedly refused pleas from a Coast Guard official to return to the ship, the document shows. He “underestimated the damage” and gave the evacuation order more than an hour after the ship hit rocks by the island, delaying rescue operations, according to the document.
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« Reply #35 on: January 18, 2012, 02:11:02 PM »

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/18/us-italy-ship-idUSTRE80D08220120118
Divers suspend search of capsized Italy liner
By Steve Scherer and Gabriele Pileri
January 18, 2012

(Reuters) - Divers searching the capsized Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia suspended work on Wednesday after the vast wreck shifted by more than a meter, delaying plans to remove the oil from the liner to prevent a possible environmental disaster.
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The search was suspended all day on Wednesday after the ship slipped by some 1.5 meters. As darkness fell, a spokesman said it had stabilized but it was unclear if the search would resume before Thursday morning.
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Until the order was given to suspend work, divers had been preparing to resume the difficult and dangerous search of partly submerged areas of the giant ship after entries are blasted with explosives.

"The visibility is awful. Yesterday I couldn't see my hand in front of my face," said Giuseppe Minciotti, one of the specialist diving team deployed on the wreck.
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« Reply #36 on: January 18, 2012, 02:30:13 PM »

I sure hope that they have checked every single cabin for possible survivors before suspending the search...people have survived being buried in earthquakes days longer than this has been....sad...
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« Reply #37 on: January 18, 2012, 03:49:49 PM »

I sure hope that they have checked every single cabin for possible survivors before suspending the search...people have survived being buried in earthquakes days longer than this has been....sad...

Cookie, the searchers have only been able to fully search the areas of the ship that aren't submerged.  They haven't been able to get to all the places in the ship that are underwater.  They've been using rescue cave-divers for some of the searching, and made holes in the side of the ship to try to find people.  It's really sad.     It's cold and dark and very, very dangerous in the submerged areas, with all the debris and etc.  I don't think they are suspending the search lightly, but the ship moved again, and it endangers the divers too.     This is just terrible for the families and friends of the missing too. 

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« Reply #38 on: January 18, 2012, 04:20:36 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9023199/Costa-Concordia-Captain-Francesco-Schettinos-home-town-comes-out-to-support-him.html
Costa Concordia: Captain Francesco Schettino's home town comes out to support him
Inhabitants of Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino's picturesque home town became his most vociferous supporters on Wednesday as he returned to their midst under house arrest.
By Victoria Ward, Meta di Sorrento
January 18, 2012
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« Reply #39 on: January 18, 2012, 04:24:00 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9022477/Costa-Concordia-Italians-buy-t-shirts-with-Get-back-on-board-for-s-sake-logo.html
Costa Concordia: Italians buy t-shirts with 'Get back on board, for ----’s sake!' logo

Italians show anger at the Costa Concordia cruise ship captain, Francesco Schettino, with t-shirts screaming "Get back on board, for ----’s sake!" and the creation of Facebook pages and Twitter hashtags.
By Nick Squires, Giglio and Victoria Ward in Sorrento
January 18, 2012

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“Get back on board, for ----’s sake,” screamed the official, Gregorio De Falco – a phrase that has now gone viral among Italians on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.
The original Italian – “Vado a bordo, cazzo” – has even been printed on T-shirts, after millions of Italians listened to the audio recordings of the increasingly frantic entreaties given by Mr De Falco to the captain as the ship ran aground on the island of Giglio on Friday night
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The top twitter trend in Italy is now #vadaabordocazzo.

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