This one's a b i t c h, Cruise ship runs aground off Italy; deaths reported

[Ratickle]

What a way to totally ruin a vacation cruise....


http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...eaths-reported


How the heck does something like this even happen?????


Updated at 8:05 a.m. ET: NBC News reports that 129 Americans were on board the cruise ship. Three bodies have been found and rescuers are still searching the sea after it ran aground.

[Ratickle]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45996523/ns/travel/

[Ratickle]

If he'd gone another 100 yards he'd have run into the lighthouse.....

[Blue Oval]

[QUOTE=Ratickle;577961]What a way to totally ruin a vacation cruise....


http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...eaths-reported


How the heck does something like this even happen?????


How does that happen and how do you get it out of there?

[ROGUE]

With all the modern electronics it still come down to someone paying attention. Personally, I think all the electronics give them a false sense of security and lack of attention. Worried about that with airline pilots too. Sad for those aboard and those gone.

[Ratickle]

They've found more, but still some missing....

Rescue crews were searching for 17 missing people in our around the ship, down from around 40 people who were unaccounted for right after the luxury liner went down, Sky News reports

http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...izes-off-italy

[Ratickle]

They still have people missing and now have had to halt operations because the ship is moving....

Rescue halted as crippled Italian cruise ship moves

http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...ise-ship-moves

[rschap1]

OUCH

[Ratickle]

This is really getting rediculous...

Reports: Ship Veered Off Course So Waiter Could Wave to Family


http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...-ship-disaster

[fund razor]

They were making jokes about it on morning TV yesterday. Not cool. Looks like 19 casualties.

[Ratickle]

Jokes would tend to piss me off.....


Updated at 9:07 a.m. ET:

Rescue workers discovered the bodies of five passengers on Tuesday, according to Reuters, bringing the death toll of the Costa Concordia accident to 11. The discovery came hours after Italian naval divers used explosives to blow holes in the ship's hull in an effort to find 29 missing passengers.

http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...ise-ship-wreck

[Bobcat]

The Captain is truly F*cked up, here is the conversation with the Coast Guard Chief.

Coast Guard: Hello.

Captain: Good evening, chief.

Coast Guard: Listen, this is De Falco from Livorno. Am I speaking with the captain?

Captain: Good evening, Chief De Falco.

Coast Guard: Tell me your name, please.

Captain: I am Captain Schettino, chief.

Coast Guard: Schettino?

Captain: Yes.

Coast Guard: Listen, Schettino. There are people trapped on board. Now, you go with your lifeboat. Under the bow of the ship, on the right side, there is a ladder. You climb on that ladder and go on board the ship. Go on board the ship and get back to me and tell me how many people are there. Is that clear. I am recording this conversation, Captain Schettino.

(Captain tries to speak but Coast Guard can't hear him clearly. Voices in the Coast Guard room.)

Coast Guard: Speak up! (captain tries to speak) Captain, put your hand over the microphone and speak in a louder voice!

Captain: At this moment the ship is listing.

Coast Guard: 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!

(Noise can be heard in the background. Apparently other Coast Guard officers are shouting to each other in the same room about "the ship, the ship")

Captain: Please ...

Coast Guard: There is no 'please' about it. Get back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!

Captain: I'm in a lifeboat, I am under here. I am not going anywhere. I am here.

Coast Guard: What are you doing, captain?

Captain: I am here to coordinate the rescue...

Coast Guard (interrupting): What are you coordinating there! Get on board! Coordinate the rescue from on board! Are you refusing?

Captain: No, I am not refusing.

Coast Guard: Are you refusing to go aboard, captain? Tell me the reason why you are not going back on board.

Captain: (inaudible)... there is a another lifeboat...

Coast Guard (interrupting, yelling): You get back on board! That is an order! There is nothing else for you to consider. You have sounded the "Abandon Ship." Now I am giving the orders. Get back on board. Is that clear? Don't you hear me?

Captain: I am going aboard.

Coast Guard: Go! Call me immediately when you are on board. My rescue people are in front of the bow.

Captain: Where is your rescue craft?

Coast Guard: My rescue craft is at the bow. Go! There are already bodies, Schettino. Go!

Captain: How many bodies are there?

Coast Guard: I don't know! ... Christ, you should be the one telling me that!

Captain: Do you realize that it is dark and we can't see anything?

Coast Guard: So, what do you want to do, to go home, Schettino?! It's dark and you want to go home? Go to the bow of the ship where the ladder is and tell me what needs to be done, how many people there are, and what they need! Now!

Captain: My second in command is here with me.

Coast Guard: Then both of you go! Both of you! What is the name of your second in command?

Captain: His name is Dmitri (static)"

Coast Guard: What is the rest of his name? (static) You and your second in command get on board now! Is that clear?

Captain: Look, chief, I want to go aboard but the other lifeboat here has stopped and is drifting. I have called ...

Coast Guard (interrupting): You have been telling me this for an hour! Now, go aboard! Get on board, and tell me immediately how many people there are!

Captain: OK, chief.

Coast Guard: Go! Immediately!

[fund razor]

At some point, we will forget all about Joe Hazelwood. He's been trumped.

[Ratickle]

Who???????

[rschap1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hazelwood- well, after the 24 hour long protest, blackout, then you can see his Wiki page...Valdez Captain formerly, now instructor at maritime academy.

Those conversations with the coast guard are pretty DAMNING!

[Bobcat]

It just gets worse for Captain Braveheart

Costa Concordia cruise captain Francesco Schettino. (REUTERS/Enzo Russo/ANSA)

Cruise captain gives outlandish excuse

The captain says he tripped while helping passengers, and landed in a lifeboat.

[rschap1]

What are the odds...



(100% of him being an a-hole)
(tripping and just happening to land in a lifeboat...not quite so much)

[Ratickle]

Could happen....


I mean, look at this one...


I'm sure it was an accident by Stecz......

[Ratickle]

Still 21 missing and rescue operations halted again...

GIGLIO, Italy -- The cruise ship grounded off Tuscany shifted again on its rocky perch, forcing the supension Friday of search and rescue operations for the 21 people still missing.

It was not clear if the movements registered overnight by onboard sensors were just vibrations as the Costa Concordia settles on the rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio or if the massive ocean liner is slipping off the reef.

"The ship is not in safe enough conditions for rescue operations to continue," Coast Guard spokesman Cmdr. Cosimo Nicastro told The Associated Press.

[Serious News]

Captain visits...

http://news.msn.com/world/video?vide...6d6ed4&ap=true