Cruise ship runs aground in Italy

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Sickboy007 said:
Some new developments: Fixing the ship and pumping the water out will be a tecnical nightmare since there are now giant holes on both sides.

It looks like the reason the ship was so close to shore was because of a maritime tradition: the isle of Giglio is full of maritime workers, including a former captain of Costa ships. The captain was "bowing" to them, which is coming close to the shore and blowing the horns.

Eyewitnesses have said that the captain was among the first to evacuate the ship, he was asked by coast guard repeatedly to go back aboard but he refused.

They saved another person after 36 hours, the ship's purser, who after helping out with the evacuation was stuck there with a broken leg.
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Sickboy007 said:
Eyewitnesses have said that the captain was among the first to evacuate the ship, he was asked by coast guard repeatedly to go back aboard but he refused.
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I just Imagine him standing there on the shore saying "No way I'm going back there, that thing is deathtrap!!"
 
_dementia said:
Irrational or not, I'm terrified of cruises too. All those stories of people never returning from cruises spook me.
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There was this interesting Dateline on a couple weeks ago about this newleywed couple that were on a cruise for their honeymoon and the groom disappeared off the boat in the middle night. It's still unsolved, the family thinks there was foul play but he was probably just drunk and fell over the side. Scary shit.
 
Harry Potter said:
There was this interesting Dateline on a couple weeks ago about this newleywed couple that were on a cruise for their honeymoon and the groom disappeared off the boat in the middle night. It's still unsolved, the family thinks thete was foul play but he was probably just drunk and fell over the side. Scary shit.
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Those little ass railings are the only thing to stop you from falling to death? Fuck that.
 
Jarmel said:
Wow, so a captain can actually get into legal trouble for leaving a sinking ship?
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Yes, a ship's captain is responsible for the lives of everyone on board.

So apparently it's starting to look like the captain shut off the auto pilot so he could hot dog by passing close to shore to impress some people and he ended up hitting some rocks that may or may not have been on the charts. Plus he may have been intoxicated. And he abandoned the ship.

That's a real winner.
 
Your Excellency said:
After reading this article in the Guardian (by the guy who Ewan McGregor is based on in The Men Who Stare At Goats) I decided never go to on a cruise liner. Those guys just do not give a fuck.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/11/rebecca-coriam-lost-at-sea
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Sounds like a suicide. But the lack of investigation and the number of people that "go missing" is crazy. Maybe that area is a cruise ship "Golden Gate Bridge" of suiciders? But why wouldn't a body turn up if someone investigated the area? Currents would drag a floating body for miles in 24 hours?

Jarmel said:
Wow, so a captain can actually get into legal trouble for leaving a sinking ship?
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I dunno about a "law," but it's "honor"/tradition that the "captain goes down with the ship" unless everyone else is off-board/evacuated.
 
Harry Potter said:
There was this interesting Dateline on a couple weeks ago about this newleywed couple that were on a cruise for their honeymoon and the groom disappeared off the boat in the middle night. It's still unsolved, the family thinks there was foul play but he was probably just drunk and fell over the side. Scary shit.
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Yeah, shit like that.
 
Sickboy007 said:
Some new developments: Fixing the ship and pumping the water out will be a tecnical nightmare since there are now giant holes on both sides.

It looks like the reason the ship was so close to shore was because of a maritime tradition: the isle of Giglio is full of maritime workers, including a former captain of Costa ships. The captain was "bowing" to them, which is coming close to the shore and blowing the horns.

Eyewitnesses have said that the captain was among the first to evacuate the ship, he was asked by coast guard repeatedly to go back aboard but he refused.
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This is amazing.
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shame, it looked like a fine vessel.

I have no fear of cruise ships. in fact, i'll probably check for deals for the summer.

aren't there 20+ people still missing? wtf
 
been on one cruise. Never hung around a railing unless it was atleast chest level and had a closed (glass/plexi-glass) bottom. Hell naw!

I would just order booze and recline on a beach chair... listening to a cover-band that had a lead vocalist that sounded like someone (badly) impersonating Chrissie Hynde. It was a wild ride, kids.
 
_dementia said:
Irrational or not, I'm terrified of cruises too. All those stories of people never returning from cruises spook me.
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30,000 people in america alone getting killed every year in a car is ok....

But 100 people missing over a decade on cruising is terrifying? May I suggest a shrink?
 
Captain's favor to head waiter to blame for cruise ship disaster?

The captain of the luxury cruise ship that capsized after hitting rocks off Italy had sailed perilously close to the coast to "make a bow" to people on a Tuscan island, according to media reports.

Francesco Schettino made the dangerous maneuver so that the Costa Concordia's head waiter could salute his family on land, according to reports.

Schettino denies charges of manslaughter and his lawyer has said his actions had saved many lives.

The captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, is escorted by an Italian policeman in Grosseto on Saturday.

The father of the ship's head waiter told Reuters that his son had telephoned him before the accident to say the crew would salute him by blowing the ship's whistle as they passed by the island of Giglio, where both the waiter, Antonello Tievoli, and his 82-year-old father Giuseppe live.

"The ship obviously came too close," the elder Tievoli said, according to Reuters.

"I don't know if Antonello asked the captain to come near, but the responsibility is always the captain's."
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Shortly before the ship hit the rocks, the waiter's sister, Patrizia Tievoli, had posted on Facebook that: “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,” the Telegraph reported.

The sail-past was a private affair, part of a code of courtesy shared only by the crew, and there was no public announcement about it, according to Corriere della Sera.
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Socreges said:
Yeah, right now would be the best time to go on a cruise in terms of safety (and value). Problem is the company might not be as care-free.

"Why are they taking us away from it?"
"Where are you going!?"

Oh, Americans.
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nobody told them anything... captain did not inform the coast guard of the crash until 1 hour passed, despite passengers calling 911 and coast guard calling the captain to see what is happening. He tried to hide it until he realized how bad it was.

Apparently one of the crew chiefs was from the island and couldnt get time off ship to visit to captain tried to get close to the island for him.

captain left the ship after the coast guard to the rescue came (but before all passengers were saved)... but ship's safety chief was one found 2 days later with half of his body underwater and broken leg, he was helping passengers until the end. He was rushed to the surgery, not sure how bad his condition is.

Survivors say that basically procedures were not followed, nobody was communicating with them and that most of the crew was in panic and left among the first.
 
Apparently did some of the crew take one of the first lifeboats and told the passengers "no, this is for crew only"

bunch of assholes.
 
The Lamonster said:
Yes, you are better than all of them.
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You sweetheart. :)

spwolf said:
nobody told them anything... captain did not inform the coast guard of the crash until 1 hour passed, despite passengers calling 911 and coast guard calling the captain to see what is happening. He tried to hide it until he realized how bad it was.

Apparently one of the crew chiefs was from the island and couldnt get time off ship to visit to captain tried to get close to the island for him.

captain left the ship after the coast guard to the rescue came (but before all passengers were saved)... but ship's safety chief was one found 2 days later with half of his body underwater and broken leg, he was helping passengers until the end. He was rushed to the surgery, not sure how bad his condition is.

Survivors say that basically procedures were not followed, nobody was communicating with them and that most of the crew was in panic and left among the first.
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Yeah, I heard about that. But wasn't there a loud bang and then an alarm sounding? Sounds like enough reason to not obnoxiously protest if the crew is obviously taking you to shore.
 
Socreges said:
You sweetheart. :)

Yeah, I heard about that. But wasn't there a loud bang and then an alarm sounding? Sounds like enough reason to not obnoxiously protest if the crew is obviously taking you to shore.
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crew told them nothing is happening and that not to worry :-). then most of them run off.
 
Captain: "Hey watch out, I'm going to do something aweso-FUUUUU"
 
Sickboy007 said:
Some new developments: Fixing the ship and pumping the water out will be a tecnical nightmare since there are now giant holes on both sides.

It looks like the reason the ship was so close to shore was because of a maritime tradition: the isle of Giglio is full of maritime workers, including a former captain of Costa ships. The captain was "bowing" to them, which is coming close to the shore and blowing the horns.

Eyewitnesses have said that the captain was among the first to evacuate the ship, he was asked by coast guard repeatedly to go back aboard but he refused.

They saved another person after 36 hours, the ship's purser, who after helping out with the evacuation was stuck there with a broken leg.
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This is like a real life George Costanza.

Remember the fire at the kid's birthday party episode?
 
La Stampa published a letter from August 2011 in which Porto Giglio's mayor Sergio Ortelli thanked the Concordia's captain for the "incredible spectacle" of a previous close pass. "It's a very nice show to see, the ship all lit up when you see it from the land. This time round it went wrong," Mayor Ortellei said.
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looks like it wasn't the first time this captain has tried this stunt. So, he puts people at risk then abandons the passengers. nice.
 
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