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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: January 21, 2012, 11:17:14 PM »
"Schettino may be a culpable scapegoat, but what is emerging from the testimony of passengers and rescuers is that many of the crew were also seemingly at fault, as there appears to have been no properly co-ordinated attempt to get people safely off the ship.
The deputy mayor on the island of Giglio says he couldn’t find any officers on board to give direction to the panicking passengers.
‘After 20 minutes I couldn’t find anybody... there were a lot of people who wanted help but there was no one guiding them.’
It sounds horrendous: terrified people, water rising around them, fighting to climb up a slippery rope.
All of us like to think we would do the right thing should we ever be in a dire situation. Some suggest Schettino’s response was a classic ‘fight or flight’ response that he was not fully in control of.
In the conversation with the coastguard, he sounds distracted. Some even say his instinct to turn the ship back on to a rocky ledge ultimately saved many lives."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2090111/SUZANNE-MOORE-Could-calm-carry-like-Rose.html
The deputy mayor on the island of Giglio says he couldn’t find any officers on board to give direction to the panicking passengers.
‘After 20 minutes I couldn’t find anybody... there were a lot of people who wanted help but there was no one guiding them.’
It sounds horrendous: terrified people, water rising around them, fighting to climb up a slippery rope.
All of us like to think we would do the right thing should we ever be in a dire situation. Some suggest Schettino’s response was a classic ‘fight or flight’ response that he was not fully in control of.
In the conversation with the coastguard, he sounds distracted. Some even say his instinct to turn the ship back on to a rocky ledge ultimately saved many lives."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2090111/SUZANNE-MOORE-Could-calm-carry-like-Rose.html