Costa Concordia Shipwreck

[billski]

 

[gmcunni]

harsh billski, people died on that ship.

 

[billski]

harsh billski, people died on that ship.

I considered that before I posted this. I do not make light of the deaths. My focus is on the idiot that caused them.

 

[andrec10]

You cant fix STUPID!:blink:

 

[ScottySkis]

So horrible and theat captain is a hol*

 

[Kerovick]

So horrible and theat captain is a hol*

What?

 

[ScottySkis]

What?

A hole that is what the captain is for leaveing all those people, he's supposed to be last off the ship not first

 

[Chinalfr]

Nice. The captain is a coward. He need to face the justice. Hope he get his harsh punishment.


Sent from my iPhone 5.

 

[o3jeff]

A hole that is what the captain is for leaveing all those people, he's supposed to be last off the ship not first

What do you mean, he said he accidentally fell into a lifeboat and didn't mean to leave the ship.

 

[billski]

What's really weird is that the Italian nationals see it just the opposite as the rest of the world. They see the coast guard is ho*e, and the captain as the hero. Maybe there is something cultural I'm missing. Generally speaking, the most accurate info is closest to the source. I simply don't know. Go figure.

 

[gmcunni]

What's really weird is that the Italian nationals see it just the opposite as the rest of the world. They see the coast guard is ho*e, and the captain as the hero.

while i have not been following this closely i find this ^ surprising as one of the first things i heard was they had instantly arrested him and charged him with manslaughter. odd way to treat a hero.

 

[billski]

while i have not been following this closely i find this ^ surprising as one of the first things i heard was they had instantly arrested him and charged him with manslaughter. odd way to treat a hero.

I'll bet the Coast Guard forced it.

 

[gmcunni]

i awoke to the news on tv and heard something today that the fatal route he took was identical to an "approved" route taken over the summer by another captain.

 

[Nick]

I read somewhere yesterday he had friends on the island and he told them to watch how close he was going to bring the ship to the island.... here's the link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...cks-in-Facebook-stunt-for-friends-family.html

Cruise disaster: captain neared rocks in Facebook stunt for friend's family
In a pre-planned stunt advertised on Facebook, captain of The Concordia, Francesco Schettino, sailed perilously close to the coast of Giglio so that the ship's head waiter could salute his family on land.

 

[SkiDork]

What's really weird is that the Italian nationals see it just the opposite as the rest of the world. They see the coast guard is ho*e, and the captain as the hero. Maybe there is something cultural I'm missing. Generally speaking, the most accurate info is closest to the source. I simply don't know. Go figure.

Where'd you see this? From what I read, Italians are wearing t-shirts saying "Get th f*** back on board" which is what de Falco said:

"The coastguard official who has become an overnight star in Italy after lambasting a cruise liner captain for abandoning his grounded ship is refusing to take on the mantle of national hero, claiming he just did his job."

more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/18/costa-concordia-coastguard-rejects-hero?newsfeed=true

 

[drjeff]

Where'd you see this? From what I read, Italians are wearing t-shirts saying "Get th f*** back on board" which is what de Falco said:

"The coastguard official who has become an overnight star in Italy after lambasting a cruise liner captain for abandoning his grounded ship is refusing to take on the mantle of national hero, claiming he just did his job."

more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/18/costa-concordia-coastguard-rejects-hero?newsfeed=true

Exactly! About the only thing that the the Captain of the Concordia did that was a great thing, was that after he ran his ship into the reef trying in the maritime equivalent of a unapproved fly-by, he had the hindsight to quickly turn his ship into shallower water and beach it there as I'm quite sure that there were compartment flooding warning sirens blaring through the bridge of the ship. Had he not done that, the Concordia would have sunk in deeper waters and the death toll would more than likely been immensely more than it is.

this picture just puts it into perspective how much damage that reef did, and also check out how big a chunk of the rock from the reef is imbedded in the hull, as those liferafts are usually atleast 20 feet in diameter or so

 

[ctenidae]

That'll buff out.

 

[billski]

Where'd you see this? From what I read, Italians are wearing t-shirts saying "Get th f*** back on board" which is what de Falco said:

"The coastguard official who has become an overnight star in Italy after lambasting a cruise liner captain for abandoning his grounded ship is refusing to take on the mantle of national hero, claiming he just did his job."

more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/18/costa-concordia-coastguard-rejects-hero?newsfeed=true

NPR and BBC radio during the night hours today.

 

[billski]

I read somewhere yesterday he had friends on the island and he told them to watch how close he was going to bring the ship to the island.... here's the link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...cks-in-Facebook-stunt-for-friends-family.html

That reportage is very telling. The true leader in all this was an off-duty captain from a sister ship, who according to witnesses, initiated abandoned order 10 minutes before the active captain did. He then assist passers. Afterwards he appeared very traumatized.

 

[SkiDork]

that'll buff out.

lol