Two Dead After Cruise Ship 'Runs Aground'
Source: Sky News
Two people have died after a luxury cruise ship carrying 4,200 passengers and crew is said to have run aground off the coast of Italy.
A major rescue operation was launched last night after the Costa Concordia began sinking near the island of Giglio, off the Tuscan coast.
A harbour master said it looked like it ''ran aground'', but Costa Cruises, which owns the ship, said it was ''too early to say what caused the incident".
Coastguard officials said two people had died but gave no further details.
Read more: http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16148897
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)AFP: "It was like the Titanic"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jpjNS4_4QUyem62wQ8R8hTRqbeuw?docId=CNG.0a48dca029ea3800c6e534eab94e8d0d.c41
edited to add photo
msongs
(67,193 posts)waddirum
(976 posts)Survivors reported having to swim a 100+ meters to get to the lighthouse. The ship is really that large. It is kind of optical illusion.
jpak
(41,741 posts)and know how to get to put on your PFD and/or survival suit
and know how to get to a safe deck.
and how to get into a lifeboat
Missy Vixen
(16,207 posts)The other passengers were too busy whining they had to attend the short briefing in the first place...
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)so um.
also consider that you do the drill on a level boat and now it's tilted like a fun house.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)but the crew hesitated and waited too long
icymist
(15,888 posts)One man that was sick died because of the cold night. We need to pray for these people.
http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/13/10152446-cruise-ship-runs-aground-off-italy-deaths-reported
muriel_volestrangler
(101,145 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,145 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Three people are confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy.
The Costa Concordia hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island of Giglio and listed about 20 degrees, after which people tried to reach land in lifeboats or by swimming.
Rescue teams have been going from cabin to cabin, searching for survivors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16558910
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)That hole in the picture in response #7 is not what I'd expect from a sand bar. It looks more like a big underwater boulder, or a reef.
Yikes.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)you'll see some rocks. I noticed them on our tv news earlier at lunchtime here - GMT.
Stupid thing it looks to be quite shallow water so why exactly so many jumped is beyond me. I'm guessing that those who drowned were in the lower deck cabins.
RIP.
icymist
(15,888 posts)What really happened, I'm sure we all are about to find out in the next few days. Pray for these people!
obamanut2012
(25,905 posts)You can see them in the photos. That wasn't a sandbar, that was a huge bunch of huge rocks that ripped open that gash. A sandbar wouldn't do that damage anyway. Any of us who have spent time on a boat or ship, even a kayak or small sailboat, knows what a sandbar does and does not do.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Rhiannon12866
(202,961 posts)Those poor people!
brooklynite
(93,834 posts)tawadi
(2,110 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)"We had to scream at the controllers to release the boats from the side," said Mike van Dijk, a 54-year-old from Pretoria, South Africa. "We were standing in the corridors and they weren't allowing us to get onto the boats. It was a scramble, an absolute scramble."
Passengers Alan and Laurie Willits from Wingham, Ontario, celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary, said they were watching the magic show in the ship's main theater when they felt an inital lurch, as if from a severe steering maneuver, followed a few seconds later by a "shudder" that tipped trash cans over. The subsequent listing of the ship made the theater curtains seem like they were standing on their side.
"And then the magician disappeared," Laurie Willits said, saying the magician left the stage and panicked audience members fled for their cabins as well.
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The cruise liner's captain, Paolillo said, then tried to steer his ship toward shallow waters, near Giglio's small port, to make evacuation by lifeboat easier. But after the ship started listing badly, lifeboat evacuation was no longer feasible, Paolillo said.
http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/story/2012-01-14/Panic-chaos-as-Italian-cruise-ship-runs-aground-3-dead/52549316/1
EX500rider
(10,517 posts).....makes me think she may have a big tear on the other side, otherwise as she listed the rip on the port side would be out of the water at some point...though she may have been at enough of a angle to flood thru hatches and doorways/potholes by then.
EX500rider
(10,517 posts)MSNBC has a close up of the hole/rip and there is still a really big rock wedged in it!
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Ship aground off Italy; 3 bodies found, 69 missing
By FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press 41 minutes ago
PORTO SANTO STEFANO, Italy (AP) Divers have been searching the submerged part of a luxury cruise liner that went aground off the Italian coast in case any of 70 people unaccounted for might be trapped inside, a coast guard official said Saturday, as passengers described a delayed and terrifying evacuation.
Three bodies were recovered from the sea after the Costa Concordia ran aground off the tiny island of Giglio near the coast of Tuscany late Friday, tearing a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in its hull and sending in a rush of water. The ANSA new agency identified them as two French passengers and a Peruvian crew member but did not cite a source.
Passengers described a scene reminiscent of "Titanic", saying they escaped the ship by crawling along upended hallways, desperately trying to reach safety as the lights went out and plates and glasses crashed.
more:http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gRZIWyfwdsvTEhuf_9HxHti8joaw?docId=0b26cb0e5bba4c7b9162bc08c8a93490
obamanut2012
(25,905 posts)That would be horrible.
IcyPeas
(21,737 posts)for manslaughter and abandonment of ship. didn't call a mayday in time.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Cpt. Francesco Schettino of the luxury ship cruiser that ran aground near the coast of Tuscany late Friday said that the ship hit reefs that were not marked on the navigation map, local media reported.
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"On our way we came across a rocky ridge which has not been marked (on the map). According to the navigation map it should have been deep enough for our liner to be able to pass there," Schettino said after the questioning to TV Tgcom24.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20120114/170757714.html
obamanut2012
(25,905 posts)CYAing.
I don't believe him for many reasons, primarily his abandoning ship.
Violet_Crumble
(35,954 posts)It's not like I expect any captain to go down with his ship, but to leave the ship before the passengers have been evacuated is unacceptable. It reminds me of that ship that sunk where the captain and crew noticed they were taking on water and decided to get off first without even telling the passengers there was a problem....
csziggy
(34,119 posts)For Giglio Porto, Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, Italy: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Giglio%2C+Tuscany%2C+Italy&ie=UTF-8
Now look at the little protrusion just north of the port with a separate rock offshore.
Then look at this video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16562715
I think that offshore rock is now embedded in the side of the ship.
It looks as though the ship was trying to get between that rock and the tip of the land!
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Modern ships are required to carry voyage data recorders which store detailed information about the vessels speed, position, heading, radar and communications.
The Costa Concordia also carried two live web cameras that updated every few seconds and may have recorded the events as they unfolded. Another live webcam overlooking the port at Giglio is also thought to have captured the accident.
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The first thing investigators will have to determine is whether the vessel should even have been where it was.
A source close to the investigation told a leading Italian newspaper that the boat was on the wrong course possibly due to human error and was sailing too close to Giglio.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9015493/Cruise-disaster-Perfect-storm-of-events-caused-Costa-Concordia-crash.html
There were reports last night that captain Schettino, had been dining with passengers when the accident happened but the ships operating company, Costa Crociera, said he was on the bridge.
He then discovered that the ship was four miles off course, but was unsure why. One theory is that an electrical fault had wiped out the ships navigational power and steering control. Captain Schettino told investigators that charts showed he was in waters deep enough to navigate.
He was quoted as saying: The area was safe, the water was deep enough. We struck a stretch of rock that was not marked on the charts. As far as I am concerned, we were in perfectly navigable waters.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086831/Costa-Concordia-accident-Pictures-cruise-ship-sinking-coast-Italy-Titanic-like-scene.html
Eugene
(61,592 posts)Source: Reuters
15 Jan 2012 00:14
Source: reuters // Reuters
ROME, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Firefighters have reached two people alive on the stricken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, the Italian news agency Ansa reported on Sunday.
The firefighters had made voice contact with the couple earlier and found them in a cabin. (Reporting By Philip Pullella#; Editing by Ralph Gowling)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/firefighters-reach-two-people-alive-on-cruise-ship-report/
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)"Carnival and Costa communicated only in press releases well into Saturday evening. "This is a terrible tragedy and we are deeply saddened," Carnival said in a statement. Costa's president Gianni Oporto's statement said in part: "We are not at this time able to answer questions because the authorities are trying, with our cooperation, to understand the reasons for the incident."
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/14/4188180/cruise-line-industry-winces-in.html#storylink=cpy
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Interesting--this morning I turned on the Weather Channel--they did a whole segment focused on the drama of it all and never ONCE mentioned the name of the ship or the owner. I kept saying, "but what is the ship???" The omission was striking. No excuse--so many hours after the incident. Obviously deliberate.
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