GUILTY Italy - Costa Concordia Cruise Ship runs aground/flips, 2012

[SuziQ]

Please forgive my ignorance. What is BBM?

BBM=Bold by me. Used when a poster wants to highlight part of a post they are responding to.

 

[passionflower]

this is a quote from her:

“[Capt. Schettino] is one of the best captains in the company. He is very skillful and experienced when it comes to manoeuvring the ship in enclosed spaces, like harbours".


anyone else think she has said this exact thing to her friends, but with a few small differences:

“[Capt. Schettino] is one of the best captains in the company. He is very skillful and experienced when it comes to manoeuvring (his) "ship" in enclosed spaces, like (guest cabins)".

:floorlaugh:

Wondering how long she has cruised with this particular guy??? Doe s she work on the ship? How was she resqued? With him? in a lifeboat or with the poor people fending for themselves on a rope of a sinking ship in the cold?

 

[mysteriew]

Wondering how long she has cruised with this particular guy??? Doe s she work on the ship? How was she resqued? With him? in a lifeboat or with the poor people fending for themselves on a rope of a sinking ship in the cold?

Good questions and I admit I hadn't thought of them.

Was she in the lifeboat with him? If not is she aware that he most likely made it off the ship before she did? Leaving her to fend for herself? Or if she was in the lifeboat, most likely someone will have noticed and it will come out. And most likely she will have major problems for lying in the investigation. (And since she is saying the chicken wasn't with her, when other witnesses say he was I would guess that her credibility is already in question.)

 

[SuziQ]

The video at the below link has more onboard passenger footage and an audio of the first contact the coast guard made. Passengers were on their phones calling ashore for help and the crew flat out lied and said there was no problem.

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16152139

 

[redheadedgal]

Blonde ballerina Domnica Cemortan... said she was dining with friends at the time of the disaster and denied that the captain was also having drinks on deck.

according to this article -and photographic evidence- he was drinking in the dining room... can he tell the truth about anything??! :banghead:

An Italian couple, Angelo Fabbri and his wife Eleonora Rossi inadvertently photographed the couple at 8.44pm as they took pictures of the dishes served to them in the Club Concordia restaurant. "Schettino, in a dark uniform, was seated in front of the woman," Mr Fabbri, from Savona in northern Italy, told an Italian newspaper. There's no doubt that they drank the whole decanter, the last drops were poured into the captain's wine glass."

According to the passengers, the captain, the woman and another officer sat down to a four course meal of prawn cocktail, rice with gorgonzola and asparagus, grilled sword fish and dessert, accompanied by the decanter of red wine.

"They stayed til 9.05pm, I know that for sure because, to record the evening, we photographed the dishes and in one, timed at 9.02pm, the captain and the woman were still at the table," said Mr Fabbri.

http://www.windsorstar.com/Mystery+blonde+bridge+doomed+Costa+Concordia/6020035/story.html

 

[Lera213]

Question...anyone know what ship Amy works on...the AH from the Anthony trial?

 

[Lera213]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16641592

Oh wow, crew denying anything was wrong. Listen to the audio

 

[Lera213]

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16152139

This shows the crew walking sideways and some yells out from some of the passengers

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Wondering how long she has cruised with this particular guy??? Doe s she work on the ship? How was she resqued? With him? in a lifeboat or with the poor people fending for themselves on a rope of a sinking ship in the cold?

One of the afternoon reports on CNN yesterday described the 25-year-old as the "ship's liaison" who is fluent in five languages. Given that she was known to be dining with the Captain when the ship hit the reef, my guess is that she was in escorted into the lifeboat with Schettino and the second officer, among others who might have been "hand-picked" for survival. jmo

 

[tarabull]

Costa Concordia captain ‘cried like a baby’ after the crash; rescue operations suspended amid choppy seas
January 20, 2012

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...Interviewed by French magazine Famille Chrétienne, Father Raffaele Malena said he was among the last to leave the ship at around 1:30 a.m local time on Saturday and then stayed “close to the injured” in the tiny harbour of Giglio.

“I descended on the rope ladder. I was picked up by a little lifeboat,” said Father Malena, who has returned to his village of Ciro Marina in Calabria.

“At around 2:30 a.m. I spoke to the captain (Francesco Schettino). He embraced me for about a quarter of an hour and cried like a baby,” Father Malena said.

Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...rescue-operations-suspended-amid-choppy-seas/

 

[tarabull]

Italy risks worst environmental disaster in 20 years
January 20, 2012

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Italy risks its worst environmental disaster in more than two decades if the 2,400 tonnes of thick fuel in the capsized Costa Concordia pollutes one of the Mediterranean's most prized and pristine maritime reserves.

Seven days after the 114,500 tonne liner capsized off the Tuscan coast, its vast wreck is shifting precariously on an undersea ledge, threatening to slide further and undermining plans to pump the oil out safely.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/italy-ship-environment-idUSL6E8CK1HK20120120

 

[tarabull]

Can the Concordia be saved?

A visual: http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/fo0118_concordiasalvage.jpg

[From the National Post link above.]

 

[redheadedgal]

20/20 tonight (jan 20th) is about the Costa Concordia crash... 10pm EST @ ABC

 

[mysteriew]

Costa Concordia captain ‘cried like a baby’ after the crash; rescue operations suspended amid choppy seas
January 20, 2012

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...Interviewed by French magazine Famille Chrétienne, Father Raffaele Malena said he was among the last to leave the ship at around 1:30 a.m local time on Saturday and then stayed “close to the injured” in the tiny harbour of Giglio.

“I descended on the rope ladder. I was picked up by a little lifeboat,” said Father Malena, who has returned to his village of Ciro Marina in Calabria.

“At around 2:30 a.m. I spoke to the captain (Francesco Schettino). He embraced me for about a quarter of an hour and cried like a baby,” Father Malena said.

Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/0...rescue-operations-suspended-amid-choppy-seas/

Yeah but why was he crying is the question. Was he crying over the loss of the ship and the deaths of passengers? Was he crying because of the realization of what he had done? Or was he crying from fear because he knew he was in trouble?

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

according to this article -and photographic evidence- he was drinking in the dining room... can he tell the truth about anything??! :banghead:

An Italian couple, Angelo Fabbri and his wife Eleonora Rossi inadvertently photographed the couple at 8.44pm as they took pictures of the dishes served to them in the Club Concordia restaurant. "Schettino, in a dark uniform, was seated in front of the woman," Mr Fabbri, from Savona in northern Italy, told an Italian newspaper. There's no doubt that they drank the whole decanter, the last drops were poured into the captain's wine glass."

According to the passengers, the captain, the woman and another officer sat down to a four course meal of prawn cocktail, rice with gorgonzola and asparagus, grilled sword fish and dessert, accompanied by the decanter of red wine.

"They stayed til 9.05pm, I know that for sure because, to record the evening, we photographed the dishes and in one, timed at 9.02pm, the captain and the woman were still at the table," said Mr Fabbri.

http://www.windsorstar.com/Mystery+blonde+bridge+doomed+Costa+Concordia/6020035/story.html

:furious: Absolutely inexcusable if the Captain was on duty. Officers and staff who are "on duty" are not allowed to consume alcoholic beverages. They are permitted to socialize when not on duty, and some Officer's wives/families visit the ship occasionally when these ship's personnel have been away from home for months at a time. Same thing with the Cruise Director whose responsibilities involve a very rigorous daily schedule.

Kudos to the couple who took those photos :clap:

 

[tarabull]

Abandoning Ship: History of Captains
January 20, 2012

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Ships' Captains have a mythic quality in our collective psyches. We put our lives in their hands. Which is why people around the world have been riveted by the story of the Costa Concordia. Captain Francesco Schettino, denies the charges against him, and says he only left the ship because he tripped and fell into a lifeboat. We'll discuss Capt Schettino, the tales of infamous and heroic captains gone-by, and we'll explain how the Captain's code of behaviour has evolved.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/01/20/abandoning-ship-history-of-captains/

[Audio at link]

 

[passionflower]

Italy risks worst environmental disaster in 20 years
January 20, 2012

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Italy risks its worst environmental disaster in more than two decades if the 2,400 tonnes of thick fuel in the capsized Costa Concordia pollutes one of the Mediterranean's most prized and pristine maritime reserves.

Seven days after the 114,500 tonne liner capsized off the Tuscan coast, its vast wreck is shifting precariously on an undersea ledge, threatening to slide further and undermining plans to pump the oil out safely.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/italy-ship-environment-idUSL6E8CK1HK20120120

Is the (I hate to call him capt) responsible for all of this, since he went off course on purpose???? Will it be another crimal charge? esp if it can be proved he was drinking and lied about the whole blackout????

 

[tarabull]

Is the (I hate to call him capt) responsible for all of this, since he went off course on purpose???? Will it be another crimal charge? esp if it can be proved he was drinking and lied about the whole blackout????

bbm

As suggested earlier, I think Schittino is fitting.

 

[jjenny]

Abandoning Ship: History of Captains
January 20, 2012

snipped...

Ships' Captains have a mythic quality in our collective psyches. We put our lives in their hands. Which is why people around the world have been riveted by the story of the Costa Concordia. Captain Francesco Schettino, denies the charges against him, and says he only left the ship because he tripped and fell into a lifeboat. We'll discuss Capt Schettino, the tales of infamous and heroic captains gone-by, and we'll explain how the Captain's code of behaviour has evolved.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/01/20/abandoning-ship-history-of-captains/

[Audio at link]

Does this guy really expect people are going to believe he tripped and fell into a boat?
:floorlaugh:

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Is the (I hate to call him capt) responsible for all of this, since he went off course on purpose???? Will it be another crimal charge? esp if it can be proved he was drinking and lied about the whole blackout????

Next thing we'll hear/read is that the dog ate Schittino's maps, and that's why he veered off course