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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: January 27, 2012, 04:02:21 PM »
“If you consider that there were 4,200 people on board, you could say things went well, but if the captain hadn’t wasted a precious hour, it would have been comfortable,” Marco Brusco, head of the port captain’s service, a maritime authority, told a Senate committee hearing.
“The lifeboats could have been launched calmly, people could have been reassured. Instead of that, the first hour was lost, people were working under stress, he (Schettino) left and there were contradictory orders,” he said."
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/26/costa-concordia-captain-wasted-a-precious-hour-before-evacuating-ship/
“The lifeboats could have been launched calmly, people could have been reassured. Instead of that, the first hour was lost, people were working under stress, he (Schettino) left and there were contradictory orders,” he said."
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/26/costa-concordia-captain-wasted-a-precious-hour-before-evacuating-ship/