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

[Reader]

Rescue efforts resume but finding survivors unlikely

http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_n...efforts-resume-but-finding-survivors-unlikely

Rescuers have resumed the search for 21 missing people from the Costa Concordia that ran aground off the Tuscan coast a week ago. Rescue work is taking place at surface level, but not underwater.

Coast guard spokesman Cosimo Nicastro said authorities will determine in the morning whether to send divers back to search sections of the partially submerged vessel that are now under water.

Sensors installed Thursday show constant vibrations in the ship structure, NBC News has learned. The ship is resting on two points underwater, keeping it from sinking. The remainder of the vessel is hanging and moves. Officials are worried the Concordia will sink further or suffer a sudden drop.
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A week after the Concordia struck a reef off the fishing and tourism island of Giglio, flipping on its side, its crippled 114,000-ton hull rests on seabed rich with an underwater prairie of sea grass vital to the ecosystem. The dead weight has likely already damaged a variety of marine life, including endangered sea sponges, and crustaceans and mollusks, even before a drop of any fuel leaks, environmentalists contend.

More at link....

 

[passionflower]

After seeing a lady on Dr Phil's show today, I have so many bad visions of this disaster and the horrors families went through.
The missing might be all together trying to help each other.
The lady said another woman gave her her baby.....how sad.
They all made it to safety!

 

[LietKynes]

I've been checking msm for updates on the search for survivors.... so sad ! As stories about the Costa C. start to give way to other news, there are still people waiting and grieving for their loved ones. If it were me waiting for news of my relative/friend, I'd be crying one moment, and feeling angry and sick the next.
Just can't imagine drowning in cold water ---how horrible.
After looking at some photos of the divers' search, it seems like once the ship went over on its' side,passengers could have become so disoriented.
Even if you knew your way to the deck, on its' side the whole ship might start to appear different...thus making it harder to know which way was "up' and where the deck with lifeboats was located.

 

[tarabull]

Captain Coward had his eye on English dancer: After claims he was distracted by a woman on the bridge, passengers and crew reveal Casanova antics of crash skipper
January 21, 2012

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Boasting a full head of dark, wavy hair, a deep tan and matinee idol looks, cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino could have stepped straight from central casting.

From the bridge of the £372 million Costa Concordia, 52-year-old Schettino wore his uniform with pride, even if he was in the habit of leaving a button or two of his crisp white captain’s shirt undone to reveal a tuft of chest hair.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Coward-eye-English-dancer.html#ixzz1k3HA7xM9

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[tarabull]

Captain Challenges Account of Wreck
January 20, 2012

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The attorney for Italy's embattled cruise-ship captain suggested Friday the ship's operating company bears a share of the blame for a deadly delay in evacuating the Costa Concordia's passengers, as further accounts emerged of the captain's apparently erratic behavior after rocks tore a 70-meter gash in his ship.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204616504577173133121062986.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

 

[tarabull]

A crash course in the denial-soaked history of the pleasure cruise
January 20, 2012

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Looking for a deluxe cruise on the open seas that promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience? If the grounding and capsizing of the Costa Concordia, with all its subsequent stories of disorder and disaster, haven't undermined your faith in the romance of the waves, then why not consider the Titanic Anniversary Cruise, departing New York on April 10?

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...istory-of-the-pleasure-cruise/article2310084/

 

[passionflower]

I'm to superstious for the TITANIC II

 

[jjw]

What angers me the most is that no one would have died IF:

• passengers had been told the truth from the beginnig about the accident
  1. they all would have been on deck and not in other parts of the ship
  2. the Coast Guard had been contacted asap
  3. passengers had went through a muster drill, then they would know what actions to take and maybe be less frightened
  4. passengers had been put on lifeboats asap
  5. Captain and ALL the crew had done their DUTY to help the passengers to safety
  
  Has anyone read about the Captain or any crew member actually going down to check the damage to the ship? I know that Thomas Andrews and crew members went down to check the damage on the Titanic. With that gaping hole on the ship, it should have been apparent VERY quickly the ship was in trouble.
  
  Not trying to be insensitive towards the passengers, but the stories of people stealing lifejackets off other passengers upsets me. Don't get me wrong the Captain is the cause of all of this, but EVERYONE should have been trying to save lives. Can't help but wonder if some of the dead and missing didn't have lifejackets because someone else ripped it off of them. I would like to think no matter how terrifying it would be- I would not do anything to jeopardize someone else's life to save my own.:twocents:
  
  jmo

 

[jjw]

Don't know if anyone has posted this link yet. It gives a diagram of what may happen to the ship if it falls to the ocean floor.

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/concordia-salvage2.jpg

 

[tarabull]

Italian cruise ship divers find another body
January 21, 2012

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Divers searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia have found the body of a woman in the stern of the partially submerged Italian cruise ship, the country's Coast Guard said, raising the confirmed number of deaths to 12.

Another 20 people remain missing, eight days after the vessel hit rocks off the coast of Italy, near the island of Giglio.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/21/italy-cruise-ship-search.html

 

[tarabull]

Costa Concordia: 'I'm going to stay here,' said captain
January 21, 2012

The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship promised that he would be the last one to leave the stricken vessel, new audio recordings with the Italian coast guard revealed today.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ordia-Im-going-to-stay-here-said-captain.html

 

[tarabull]

Class action against Carnival Cruises seeks $160,000 per passenger
January 21, 2012

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"Codacons has decided to join two U.S. law firms to bring this class action against Carnival," the association's co-head Marco Ramadori told AFP, adding that over 100 people "of all nationalities" had joined.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news...ks+passenger/6032375/story.html#ixzz1k6zwwSZI

 

[tarabull]

Officials confirm light fuel near grounded Costa Concordia
January 21, 2012

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ROME - Italian officials have confirmed the presence of light fuel in the sea around the capsized Costa Concordia that appears to have come from machinery on the ship.

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/world/o...-fuel-near-grounded-costa-concordia-1.3468707

 

[tarabull]

Body found in Costa Concordia, light fuel detected nearby
January 21, 2012

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...The woman's nationality and identity were not immediately known.

Before the corpse was found, 21 people were listed as missing. One of the women on the list is a Peruvian crew member, the others are passengers.

Read more: http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...sta-concordia-120121/20120121/?hub=OttawaHome

 

[tarabull]

Inside the Costa Concordia Disaster
January 21, 2012

http://abcnews.go.com/International...p-shifts-overnight-rescue-ops-halted-15401283

 

[Reader]

Official: possibility of unregistered passengers

http://www.centurylink.net/news/rea...ass&action=2&lang=en&_LT=UNLC_NKNWU00L2_UNEWS

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Unregistered passengers might have been aboard the stricken cruise liner that capsized off this Tuscan island, a top rescue official said Sunday, raising the possibility that the number of missing might be higher than the 20 previously announced.

Divers, meanwhile, pulled out a woman's body from the capsized Costa Concordia on Sunday, raising to 13 the number of people dead in the Jan. 13 accident.

Civil protection official Francesca Maffini told reporters the victim was wearing a life vest and was found in the rear of a submerged portion of a ship by a team of fire department divers. The unidentified body was being removed from the ship.

Earlier, Italian authorities raised the possibility that the real number of the missing was unknown because some unregistered passengers might have been aboard.
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The search had been halted for several hours early Sunday, after instrument readings indicated that the Concordia has shifted a bit on its precarious perch on a seabed just outside Giglio's port. A few meters (yards) away, the sea bottom drops off suddenly, by some 20-30 meters (65-100 feet), and if the Concordia should abruptly roll off its ledge, rescuers could be trapped inside.


More at link....

 

[passionflower]

Just on HLN news reports, Italy has headlines with cartoons about Chicken of the Sea,
his official nickname now. He is the most hated person in Italy at the moment.
Still on 'house arrest'. His lawyer just said CS couldn't get back on the boat without a 'helicopter'......................

BBM I will call him CS by his nickname now, I just can't call him by his title anymore

 

[jjw]

Official: possibility of unregistered passengers

http://www.centurylink.net/news/rea...ass&action=2&lang=en&_LT=UNLC_NKNWU00L2_UNEWS

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Unregistered passengers might have been aboard the stricken cruise liner that capsized off this Tuscan island, a top rescue official said Sunday, raising the possibility that the number of missing might be higher than the 20 previously announced.

Divers, meanwhile, pulled out a woman's body from the capsized Costa Concordia on Sunday, raising to 13 the number of people dead in the Jan. 13 accident.

Civil protection official Francesca Maffini told reporters the victim was wearing a life vest and was found in the rear of a submerged portion of a ship by a team of fire department divers. The unidentified body was being removed from the ship.

Earlier, Italian authorities raised the possibility that the real number of the missing was unknown because some unregistered passengers might have been aboard.
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The search had been halted for several hours early Sunday, after instrument readings indicated that the Concordia has shifted a bit on its precarious perch on a seabed just outside Giglio's port. A few meters (yards) away, the sea bottom drops off suddenly, by some 20-30 meters (65-100 feet), and if the Concordia should abruptly roll off its ledge, rescuers could be trapped inside.


More at link....

BBM

I would have thought laws would be in place that ALL passengers had to be registered. I guessed wrong. No wonder so much crime takes place on these ships, ANYONE come aboard and there will be no paperwork to show them as being present on the ship.

Geraldo did a good job last night with his reporting on the disaster. I'm sure they will repeat it and it's worth viewing.

 

[MrsG728]

I have been watching the Italian news about this, and Chicken of the Sea is the mildest of the new nicknames for him. The others are bleepable by most media outlets, although it's a twitter feed.......

 

[panthera]

BBM

I would have thought laws would be in place that ALL passengers had to be registered. I guessed wrong. No wonder so much crime takes place on these ships, ANYONE come aboard and there will be no paperwork to show them as being present on the ship.

Geraldo did a good job last night with his reporting on the disaster. I'm sure they will repeat it and it's worth viewing.

That detail is rather surprising to me as well, especially with all the concerns regarding terrorism in the air.......one would think the same would apply for a cruise ship.

MOO