Giglio, Italy (dailynewyorknews) – The Italian authorities are considering when they stop to look for survivors on board the cruise ship Costa Concordia, the Coast Guard said Thursday as rescue workers used explosives to blow holes in the new boat looking for victims.
The authorities are mulling changing the time of issuing the recovery, the spokesman for the Coast Guard Cosimo Nicastro said Thursday. Divers continued to search for the wreck on Thursday night.
At least 11 people are known to have perished in the disaster, and 21 are missing, according to the Italian crisis unit.
Coast Guard records released Thursday by pressure on the job the Italian newspaper La Concorde captain and his officers, suggesting that the authorities first learned of the accident from a friend of the mother of a passenger of about 15 minutes after the vessel struck the rocks. In addition, ship’s cook in a Philippine television network, the captain ordered the dinner less than an hour after the collision.
The Coast Guard identified the ship in distress and contacted him to ask if there was trouble on board at 10:14 pm – half an hour after the 9:41 pm collision – a record according to the Coast Guard published in the newspaper La Repubblica.
The ship responded that he knew a “black”, as recorded, and said the crew thought he could solve the problem quickly. The record does not indicate what has been a member of the crew talking about.
What seems to be the first audio radio call of the Costa Concordia and the Coast Guard was sent by the Italian media on Thursday.
An officer of the Coast Guard is heard asking, “What kind of problem, just something with the generator of the Prato police received a call from the family of a sailor who said that during dinner, everything was falling on it? the head. ”
The unidentified crew member says, “We have a black and we review the conditions on board.”
“The passengers said they were told to put the life jackets, is that correct?” The Coast Guard requests that the crew member repeated the same answer, with the promise of maintaining the Coast Guard.
Comments of Costa Cruises and the authorities have so far focused on the captain Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest and facing possible charges of murder, shipwreck and abandonment.
Schettino ordered dinner for himself and a woman in less than an hour after the collision, the head barista said Rogelio GMA Network.
“We wondered what was going on. … At that time we really felt that something was wrong. … Things fall off shelves in kitchen and we realized the gravity of the situation,” Barista.
The authorities accuse the master driver very fast to respond to risk, causing the wreck, according to court documents.
Experts conduct toxicology tests on a sample of your hair, the prosecutor Francesco Verusio said Thursday.
Verusio preparing a motion for Schettino returned to prison under house arrest, he said.
Verusio also promised to investigate the leak of legal documents related to the case, saying he had his office.
In the home town of Meta di Sorrento Schettino, the people stood by the captain of the cruiser sank.
A piece of graffiti left hanging outside the house where Schettino is under house arrest, said: “Captain, do not give up.”
“It seems that the only charge is the captain. That’s what everyone thinks on the outside,” said Mayor Paolo Trapani. “But in this town, people know that can not be responsible for everything. It is not that journalists want to represent.”
Schettino, brother-in-law was defended in an Italian newspaper on Thursday.
Schettino “avoided a tragedy – it could have been worse,” said Maurilio Russo Corrierre della Sera.
And he denied that the captain had left the ship.
“He was not fleeing, wine (the ship) to assess the damage,” said Russo.
Russo also said that the road has taken the captain was not unusual.
”This is a standard procedure, the owners are very aware of this, it is useless to pretend otherwise, “he said.” Passengers pay to see something very close to the coast is part of the show. ”
Read court documents on the case against Francesco Schettino (translation of La Repubblica)
Schettino priest, Don Gennaro Starita, has accused the media of “killing” in an interview with an Italian newspaper.
“It’s a shame,” he said. “We are all dead, they want to add another to the list?”
Also Thursday, the Italian authorities have identified two victims as Gannard Jeanne, 70, and Gregory Stone, 69, both of France, the Italian crisis.
Eight victims have been appointed – four French passengers, a passenger Spanish and Italian crew members and one each from Hungary and Peru.
Nearly a week after the accident, it seems more likely that survivors are still aboard the ship.
Susy Albertini Italian mother whose five year old daughter Dayana Arlotti have the youngest person is still missing, is a desperately for news of their loved ones.
“I wish the rescuers not stop looking and keep looking – my child, they need to bring them home as soon as possible,” he said. The father of the girl, Albertini ex-husband, William Arlotti, has also disappeared.
The declaration of the recovery operation rather than emergency rescue experts to start pumping fuel from the ship, which could prevent an environmental disaster.
The ship was carrying about 2,300 tons of fuel when it came on the rocks off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio, Friday night.
Prosecutors have accused the captain to steer the ship at the speed to respond to risks, causing the wreck, according to court documents.
Original decision of the judge concluded Valeria Montesarchio Schettino changed the course of the ship, steering too close to shore and the vessel struck a rock.
Costa Cruises, Pier Luigi Foschi, chairman earlier this week placed the blame squarely on the ruin of the captain, saying that it was his decision to depart from frequently traveled routes.
“We think it was human error here,” Foschi said Monday. “The captain did not follow the authorized route, used by ships Costa frequently. There is probably no more than 100 times in one year than we have in this way. ”
There were about 4200 people when it hit the Costa Concordia – About 3200 passengers and 1000 crew members, most of which is lowered the boat safely.
Costa Cruises, said it was contacting all passengers on the ship “to ensure they went home and well, and confirm that they will receive a refund for the cruise and all costs of materials associated with it. ”
Carnival Corporation, parent company of Costa Cruises, said Thursday that week audit and review safety procedures and answer all the cruise lines after the last accident.
“While I have every confidence in the safety of our ships and professionalism of our staff, this review will assess all practices and procedures to ensure that such accidents do not occur,” said Micky Arison Carnival CEO in a statement.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/19/world/europe/italy-cruise-main/index.html?hpt=ieu_c1
