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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: January 20, 2012, 04:02:41 PM »
"Italian prosecutors leading the investigation of the accident may seek to interview Domnica Cemortan, a 25-year-old Moldovan who has appeared in photographs during the cruise published by Italian newspapers, Corriere Della Sera reported.
Cemortan told Corriere in an interview published today that she bought a ticket so she could travel on the ship and spend time with friends on the crew. She said the captain stopped briefly, “at least a half an hour” before the accident, at the table where she was dining with former colleagues. “I’m not Captain Schettino’s lover,” she told Corriere, after hearing from friends in Italy who told her newspapers were reporting that she was involved romantically with him.
Costa Crociere said in a statement yesterday that Cemortan was a registered passenger on the ship. She told Romanian newspaper Adevarul that she had worked as a crew member on the ship and went to the bridge to help translate emergency messages into Russian for passengers as the Concordia was running aground. When she escaped the ship at 11:50 p.m., an hour after the evacuation was ordered, the captain was still on the bridge, she said."
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-20/carnival-suspends-some-cruise-marketing-sets-safety-review.html
Cemortan told Corriere in an interview published today that she bought a ticket so she could travel on the ship and spend time with friends on the crew. She said the captain stopped briefly, “at least a half an hour” before the accident, at the table where she was dining with former colleagues. “I’m not Captain Schettino’s lover,” she told Corriere, after hearing from friends in Italy who told her newspapers were reporting that she was involved romantically with him.
Costa Crociere said in a statement yesterday that Cemortan was a registered passenger on the ship. She told Romanian newspaper Adevarul that she had worked as a crew member on the ship and went to the bridge to help translate emergency messages into Russian for passengers as the Concordia was running aground. When she escaped the ship at 11:50 p.m., an hour after the evacuation was ordered, the captain was still on the bridge, she said."
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-20/carnival-suspends-some-cruise-marketing-sets-safety-review.html