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‘I f–ked up!’: Costa Concordia captain’s admission caught by black box moments after ship hit rocks
Moments after the doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship struck rocks off the island of Giglio in January, Captain Francesco Schettino put a call into one of his superiors: “Roberto, I f–ked up!” he said, according to a black box transcript published by an Italian newspaper. “Look, I’m dying here, don’t tell me anything.” (Photo: Max Rossi/Reuters)
Costa Concordia cousin Allegra adrift off Seychelles near Alphonse Island after fire
An Italian cruise ship from the same fleet as the tragedy-struck Costa Concordia is adrift off the Seychelles with more than 1,000 people on board following a fire, Italy’s coast guard said Monday.
Fire crews on board managed to put out the blaze near generators in the engine room, and no one was injured on the luxury ship, the Costa Allegra.
The ship however issued a mayday call seeking assistance from any nearby cargo ships and there was a power blackout on board, the coastguard said in a statement. (Photo: LAURENT FIEVET/AFP/Getty Images/Files)
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Costa Concordia captain ‘cried like a baby’ after the crash; rescue operations suspended amid choppy seas
The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship “cried like a baby” as he hugged its chaplain hours after the Costa’s crash, the luxury liner’s priest said in an interview Friday.
Meanwhile, rescue operations were suspended on Friday due to choppy seas. Experts said the side of the ship was slipping off a rocky sea shelf at a rate of some 1.5 centimetres every hour towards the open sea.
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. (Photo: Paul Hanna/Reuters)
Costa Concordia captain claims he tripped and fell from sinking ship into lifeboat
The captain of the stricken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia is claiming that he tripped and fell into a lifeboat during the emergency.
Francesco Schettino said he stumbled as the ship was tipping dangerously and he was helping passengers, according to media reports.
“The passengers were pouring on to the decks, taking the lifeboats by assault,” he is alleged to have told an investigating judge according tom Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper.
“I didn’t even have a life jacket because I had given it to one of the passengers. I was trying to get people to get into the boats in an orderly fashion. Suddenly, since the ship was at a 60 to 70 degree angle, I tripped and I ended up in one of the boats. That’s how I found myself there,” The Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying. (Photo: Reuters)
Transcript: Coast guard angrily orders captain to return to Costa Concordia
The Italian coast guard angrily ordered the captain of the capsized Italian cruise ship to go back aboard to oversee the evacuation.
But he did not, according to a recording of their dramatic exchange played on national television.
Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino placed under house arrest as five new bodies are found
An Italian judge has placed the captain of the stricken cruise liner which capsized off Italy’s west coast under house arrest, allowing him to leave jail, his lawyer Bruno Leporatti told Reuters on Tuesday.
Captain Francesco Schettino was arrested a day after the disaster accused of manslaughter and abandoning the ship before all of the people were evacuated. Prosecutors say he also refused to go back on board when requested by the coastguard.
The captain has been branded a reckless show-off who refused to listen to orders and operated the ship as it if was a speed boat.
Schettino, 52, was being questioned by prosecutors Tuesday following his arrest in the wake of Friday’s disaster that has left at least 11 people dead.
Mario Palombo, a former captain of the doomed Costa Concordia with whom Schettino served as first mate for four years, told investigators that he was “too high-spirited and a dare devil,” local media reported. (Photo: Reuters TV)
Coastguard begged Costa Concordia captain to return to ship after crash, recording shows
The Italian coastguard pleaded in vain for the captain of the capsized Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia to return on board to oversee the evacuation but he refused, according to what a leading Italian newspaper said was a recording of the conversation.
Corriere della Sera put the tape, which it said was recorded by the coast guard, on its website.
It conforms with reports that have leaked out in the past few days since the Costa Concordia hit a rock on Friday night. Six people were killed and 29 are still missing.
Captain Francesco Schettino is in jail, accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, and was due to appear before magistrates for questioning on Tuesday morning.
The recording says in part:
Coastguard to captain (who has already left the ship):
“There are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board.
“Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear?!
“Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!”
Captain to Coastguard: “Please ….”
Coastguard to captain: “There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!” (Photo: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)
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“They’ll try to blame [the captain] entirely — and that may be justified — but I think there’s questions as to whether the ship presented its own set of issues,” says Ross Klein](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxa97zIfS1qze0z6o1_1280.jpg)
Cruise ship disaster sounds alarm on industry issues, expert says
“They’ll try to blame [the captain] entirely — and that may be justified — but I think there’s questions as to whether the ship presented its own set of issues,” says Ross Klein
Striking photos of tragedy in shallow waters as the Costa Concordia sinks
The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio Island on Friday. Rescuers were painstakingly checking thousands of cabins on the Italian liner for 16 people still unaccounted for out of the 4,200 who were on board.
Worsening weather and heavy seas earlier made the wreck slip on the rocky underwater slope where it is lodged off the island of Giglio and rescue teams were evacuated. But they returned to work after several hours. Six bodies have been found so far.
The vessel’s captain, Francesco Schettino, was arrested on Saturday. He is accused of manslaughter and abandoning his ship before all those on board were evacuated.
Rescuers resume search of Costa Concordia, but hopes for survivors dim
Rescuers resumed a search of the hulk of a giant cruise liner off the west coast of Italy on Monday after bad weather forced them to halt operations, but hopes were fading of finding more survivors.
Worsening weather and heavy seas earlier made the wreck slip on the rocky underwater slope where it is lodged off the island of Giglio and rescue teams were evacuated. But they returned to work after several hours, seeking up to 16 missing people out of the 4,200 who were aboard. Six bodies have been found so far.
Firefighters’ spokesman Luca Cari said there were still small movements but they were not considered dangerous. However, night-time searches would be suspended from now on. (Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
From Titanic to Costa Concordia sinking, a history of peacetime sea disasters
Six bodies have been recovered and sixteen people were still unaccounted for on Monday from the 114,500-tonne cruise ship Costa Concordia, which hit rocks and badly listed near the Italian island of Giglio late on Friday.
Click through for a timeline of some of the world’s major peacetime ship disasters since the Titanic sank 100 years ago. (Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)
