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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: January 15, 2018, 09:20:30 PM »
Makes one wonder about the calibre of Italian Captains and Princess has many.
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They had an hour program on the Discovery channel or NATGEO channel the other night a which was supposed to be about the removal of the ship. It turned into another program mostly about the incident with the last 10 minutes dedicated to how they're going to turn the ship & float it to away.
Good thing I recorded it & could skip past the old stuff.
"THE captain of disaster cruise liner the Costa Concordia returns to sea — as he sails a boat with a pal.
Francesco Schettino wore swimming trunks as he took to the waves near his home in Sorrento, Italy.
His pal steered the boat for a while — then handed over to the 52-year-old who was at the controls when the Concordia hit a reef off Italy in January."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4465174/Costa-Concordia-captain-Francesco-Schettino-sails-again.html
"In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 13 Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy, bookings for future cruises plunged, parent company Carnival Corp. said in a regulatory filing Monday."
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/30/2616368/carnival-bookings-dropped-fleetwide.html
BAGLAD, not being critical, good luck to him.Maybe the Priest got one of those 'free cruises' given to clergy, to say Mass on the ship. One will never know.Good luck to them. Don't we all go on cruises as a retreat of some sort?
The recently retired Dean of Brisbane blessed our marriage on our 25th wedding Anniversary on the Pacific Princess a few years ago. My wife overheard him offering to hold a service on the Sunday whilst she was waiting at the reception desk and asked him if he would bless our marriage. He did not hesitate and performed a lovely service in his full regalia, that he just happened to have with him. This took place at the bottom of the grand staircase with our new Aussie friends, who we met on board, as witnesses. He did not ask for any reward but we gave him a bottle of a fine N.Z. Pinot Noir that we took on board, at his dinner table. I would say that he paid for his own passage, or his parishioners gave it to him as a retirement gift, but regardless he was still doing the Lord's work. God bless him. We are coming up to our 33rd anniversary in March and are still best cruise mates.
"Erika Fani Soriamolina's body was found by divers on the sixth deck of the vessel wearing the ship's uniform but no life jacket.
Witnesses said Soriamolina had helped dozens of terrified passengers into lifeboats on the night of the disaster before giving the life jacket to an elderly man.
A tourism graduate, Soriamolina was working on only her third cruise on the Costa Concordia."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9047494/Costa-Concordia-victim-died-after-she-gave-life-jacket-to-elderly-man.html