‘Like a Scene From the Titanic’: Luxury Cruise Ship Carrying Thousands Runs Aground Off Italy, Bodies Found
- Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:41am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on the rocks after running aground the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. A luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot gash in the hull and forcing the evacuation of some 4,200 people from the listing vessel early Saturday, the Italian coast guard said. (AP Photo)
PORTO SANTO STEFANO, Italy (The Blaze/AP) — Divers have been searching the submerged part of a luxury cruise liner that went aground off the Italian coast in case any of 70 people unaccounted for might be trapped inside, a coast guard official said Saturday, as passengers described a delayed and terrifying evacuation.
Three bodies were recovered from the sea after the Costa Concordia ran aground off the tiny island of Giglio near the coast of Tuscany late Friday, tearing a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in its hull and sending in a rush of water. The ANSA new agency identified them as two French passengers and a Peruvian crew member but did not cite a source.
Passengers described a scene reminiscent of “Titanic”, saying they escaped the ship by crawling along upended hallways, desperately trying to reach safety as the lights went out and plates and glasses crashed.
Authorities say there are 70 people of the 4,234 on board who are still unaccounted for amid the confusion. Capt. Cosimo Nicastro cautioned there is no firm indication anyone is inside the ship, but he said since sea searches yielded neither bodies nor survivors, there is a possibility those unaccounted for are in “the belly of the ship” some 18 hours after the it apparently hit a reef near Giglio island – then lurched over on its side.
Passsengers complained the crew failed to give instructions on how to evacuate and once the emergency became clear, delayed lowering the lifeboats until the ship was listing too heavily for many of them to be released.
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Authorities have been checking names against the passenger list, but have had a hard time accounting for everyone. Helicopters whisked some to safety, some survivors were rescued by private boats in the area, and witnesses said some people jumped from the ship into the dark, cold sea.
By morning Saturday, the ship was lying virtually flat off Gigio’s coast, its starboard side submerged in the water and the huge gash showing clearly on its upturned hull.
Authorities still hadn’t counted all the survivors by the time they reached mainland 12 hours later.
The evacuation drill was only scheduled for Saturday afternoon, even though some passengers had already been on board for several days.
“It was so unorganized, our evacuation drill was scheduled for 5 p.m.,” said Melissa Goduti, 28, of Wallingford, Connecticut, who had set out on the cruise of the Mediterranean hours earlier. “We had joked ‘What if something had happened today?’”
Passenger Mara Parmegiani, a journalist, told the ANSA news agency that “it was like a scene from the Titanic.”
“Have you seen ‘Titanic?‘ That’s exactly what it was,” said Valerie Ananias, 31, a schoolteacher from Los Angeles who was traveling with her sister and parents on the first of two cruises around the Mediterranean. They all bore dark red bruises on their knees from the desperate crawl they endured along nearly vertical hallways and stairwells, trying to reach rescue boats.
“We were crawling up a hallway, in the dark, with only the light from the life vest strobe flashing,” her mother, Georgia Ananias, 61 said. “We could hear plates and dishes crashing, people slamming against walls.”
She choked up as she recounted the moment when an Argentine couple handed her their 3-year-old daughter, unable to keep their balance as the ship lurched to the side and the family found themselves standing on a wall. “He said ‘take my baby,’” Mrs. Ananias said, covering her mouth with her hand as she teared up. “I grabbed the baby. But then I was being pushed down. I didn’t want the baby to fall down the stairs. I gave the baby back. I couldn’t hold her.
“I thought that was the end and I thought they should be with their baby,” she said.
“I wonder where they are,” daughter Valerie whispered.
The family said they were some of the last off the ship, forced to shimmy along a rope down the exposed side of the ship to a waiting rescue vessel below.
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Survivor Christine Hammer, from Bonn, Germany, shivered near the harbor of Porto Santo Stefano, on the mainland, after stepping off a ferry from Giglio. She was wearing elegant dinner clothes – a gray cashmere sweater, a silk scarf – along with a large pair of hiking boots, which a kind islander gave her after she lost her shoes in the scramble to escape. Left behind in her cabin were her passport, credit cards and phone.
Hammer, 65, told The Associated Press she was eating her first course, an appetizer of cuttlefish, sauteed mushrooms and salad, on her first night aboard her first-ever cruise, which was a gift to her and her husband, Gert, from her local church where she volunteers.
Suddenly, “we heard a crash. Glasses and plates fell down and we went out of the dining room and we were told it wasn’t anything dangerous,” she said.
Several passengers concurred, saying crew members for a good 45 minutes told passengers there was a simple “technical problem” that had caused the lights to go off. Seasoned cruisers, however, knew better and went to get their life jackets from their cabins and report to their “muster stations,” the emergency stations each passenger is assigned to, they said.
Once there, though, crew members delayed lowering the lifeboats even thought the ship was listing badly, they said.
“We had to scream at the controllers to release the boats from the side,” said Mike van Dijk, a 54-year-old from Pretoria, South Africa. “We were standing in the corridors and they weren’t allowing us to get onto the boats. It was a scramble, an absolute scramble.”
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Passengers Alan and Laurie Willits from Wingham, Ontario, celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary, said they were watching the magic show in the ship’s main theater when they felt an inital lurch, as if from a severe steering maneuver, followed a few seconds later by a “shudder” that tipped trash cans over. The subsequent listing of the ship made the theater curtains seem like they were standing on their side.
“And then the magician disappeared,” Laurie Willits said, saying the magician left the stage and panicked audience members fled for their cabins as well.
Once at their life boat station, crew members directed passengers to go upstairs from the fourth floor deck; Alan Willits said he refused.
“I said ‘no this isn’t right.‘ And I came out and I argued ’When you get this boat stabilized, I’ll go up to the fifth floor then,” he said. Eventually, his lifeboat was lowered down.
But things didn’t improve for passengers once aboard the lifeboats or on land.
“No one counted us, neither in the life boats nor on land,” said Ophelie Gondelle, 28, a French military officer from Marseille. She said there had been no evacuation drill since she boarded in Marseille, France on Jan. 8.
A top Costa executive, Gianni Onorato, said Saturday the Concordia’s captain had the liner on its regular, weekly route when it struck a reef.
“The ship was doing what it does 52 times a year, going along the route between Civitavecchia and Savona,” a shaken-looking Onorato, who is Costa’s director general, told reporters on Giglio, a popular vacation isle about 18 miles (25 kilometers) off Italy’s central west coast. The captain is an 11-year Costa veteran, he said.
He said Costa was cooperating with Italian investigators to find out what went wrong.
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Costa Cruises said about 1,000 Italian passengers were onboard, as well as more than 500 Germans, about 160 French and about 1,000 crew members.
Some 30 people were reported injured, most of them suffering only bruises, but at least two people were reported in grave condition. Several passengers came off the ferries on stretchers, but it appeared more out of exhaustion and shock than serious injury.
Some passengers, apparently in panic, had jumped off the boat into the sea, witnesses said.
The evacuees were taking refuge in schools, hotels, and a church on the tiny island of Giglio. Those evacuated the port of Porto Santo Stefano on the nearby mainland.
Passengers sat dazed in a middle school opened for them, wrapped in wool or aluminum blankets, with some wearing their life preservers and their shoeless feet covered with aluminum foil. Civil protection crews served them warm tea and bread, but confusion reigned supreme as passengers tried desperately to find the right bus to begin their journey home.
Tanja Berto, from Ebenfurth, Austria, was shuttled from one line to another with her mother and 2-year-old son Bruno, trying to figure out how to get back to Savona, where they began their cruise a week ago.
“It’s his birthday today,” she said of her son, rolling her eyes as she held Bruno and tended to her mother, who had grown faint and was lying on the ground. “Happy birthday, Bruno.”
Survivors far outnumbered Giglio’s 1,500 residents, and island Mayor Sergio Ortelli issued an appeal for islanders – “anyone with a roof” – to open their homes to shelter the evacuees.
Paolillo said the exact circumstances of the accident were still unclear, but that the first alarm went off about 10:30 p.m., about three hours after the Concordia had begun its voyage from the port of Civitavecchia, en route to its first port of call, Savona, in northwestern Italy.
The coast guard official, speaking from the port captain’s office in the Tuscan port of Livorno, said the vessel “hit an obstacle” – it wasn’t clear if it might have hit a rocky reef in the waters off Giglio – “ripping a gash 50 meters (160 feet) across” in the side of the ship, and started taking on water.
The cruise liner’s captain, Paolillo said, then tried to steer his ship toward shallow waters, near Giglio’s small port, to make evacuation by lifeboat easier. But after the ship started listing badly, lifeboat evacuation was no longer feasible, Paolillo said.
Five helicopters, from the coast guard, navy and air force, were taking turns airlifting survivors still aboard and ferrying them to safely. A coast guard member was airlifted aboard the vessel to help people get aboard a small basket so they could be hoisted up to the helicopter, said Capt. Cosimo Nicastro, another Coast Guard official.
Costa Cruises said the Costa Concordia was sailing on a cruise across the Mediterranean Sea, starting from Civitavecchia with scheduled calls to Savona, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cagliari and Palermo.
The Concordia had a previous accident in Italian waters, ANSA reported. In 2008, when strong winds buffeted Palermo, the cruise ship banged against the Sicilian port’s dock, and suffered damage but no one was injured, ANSA said.
This post has been updated since it was first published.
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Comments (121)
fuzzy20841
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:49am“who is John Gault”
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:51amIt‘s Bush’s Fault !!!!
Report Post »NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:56amWith a little research, it becomes evident the Olympic was renamed the Titanic to collect the insurance money. Larry S. did the same thing, when you control the MSM people don’t question what reality is.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:00pmI really hate it when that happens. Your shoes get all wet and they squish when you walk.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:04pmSeventy people are missing and you guys are making jokes.. so far 6 have been found dead and you guys make jokes. God help all of you!
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:19pm@ Abbygirl1994
Report Post »About 2% of the worlds population die each year. None of us are going to get out of this alive.
I’m sorry for all people who are hurt or killed as long as they are not attacking us. But, given that, some of those lines are funny.
Those people would not be any less dead or injured if I cried.
NeoFan
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:29pmYou can cut the apathy with a knife of the lady from the Italian authorities that is the first voice on the video. I love to cruise but not sure I would take an Italian line after riding the trains in that country.
Report Post »ThemDemsLie2much
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:52pmSilly Cruise Ship. You cannot put Soro’s & Moore on the same side of the boat. Bet it‘s killing them that it’s leaning to the RIGHT! Smart Ship!
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:40am.
Report Post »Finally!
A Euro “bail” out we won’t be paying for.
caveman74
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:43amhey look its Italies performance art reenactment of Obama at the wheel of the USS economy. They nailed it
Report Post »Digger-HR
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:03pmSweet!
Report Post »Baracalypse
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:35amOoooooh, it’s a ship……….
I thought it was the liberals that drove the US economy aground.
Report Post »stinkboater
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:32amIts amazing how this continues to happen.
Report Post »I wonder what was going on on the bridge?
Dustoff
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:13amWhat were they doing so close to the shore line?
Report Post »stinkboater
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:31amDustoff,
Report Post »Looks like they would have crashed into the small marina if not for the island.
Coordinate for Google Earth – 42.36486N 10.92124E
stinkboater
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:42amrevised:
Report Post »Looks like they would have crashed into the small marina if not for that part of the island.
Coordinate for Google Earth 42.36486N 10.92124E
stinkboater
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:22pmAn image of the approximate size and location of the cruise ship Costa Concordia where it went aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74315147@N05
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:36pmAs a Ragboater , I would say, “He missed the channel by this much”. All I can think of is the Mayhem guy on the commercials screwing with the ship’s GPS
Report Post »davidstep
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:55pmDustoff, they weren’t real close to the shore line. They his a reef offshore and when the ship started to list, they headed for the shore to keep the ship from sinking.
Report Post »robstoddard
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 8:32amHelmsman! Come over here and top off my glass. I’m getting low on whiskey.
Report Post »PointBreak
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:29amEveryday the world becomes more and more like Idiocracy. Party boats crashing into rocks, billion dollar military jets don’t work, Boeing’s new luxury planes already have cracks in the wings, Volts and Fiskers catching fire, Jersey Shore… every day the jobs that used to be occupied by captains of industry and genius are now C- students and affirmative action placements. Welcome to the gloriously un-Jetsons-like future brought to you by the ignorance of reality. Bring a life vest.
Report Post »PointBreak
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:33am“In the mad dash to the emergency room door, the rolling cooler carrying a heart for transplant popped open spilling its contents on the pavement. Luckily, doctors said the heart was not broken by the tumble.”
We’re even dropping organs on the ground in the street and still using them. Now.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:57amWell said.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:16amBoeing’s new luxury planes already have cracks in the wings,
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That’s AirBus you dummy. A380 has the problem, which is not unusual with such large wings. The C-5 has the same problems, along with Russia’s huge transport.
theothertoolbox
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:27amNot Boeing. The OTHER company.
Report Post »catstewtoo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:19amI totally agree Pointbreak!
Report Post »PointBreak
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:22pm@Dustoff – here you go dummy. Stupid. Poopy pants. Try Google before you start the name calling you ignorant ninny.
http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/2010-06-23-airplanecracks23_ST_N.htm
Ignoramus.
Report Post »mdpaul
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:00amPointBreak
Report Post »Your said “Boeing’s new luxury planes already have cracks in the wings” The key word there was NEW. the Boeing plane in the link you provided was a 767-300ER they entered service in 1988. I would hardly call them “New”…..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_767#767-300
disenlightened
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:28amI have to ask, were Newt and Callista on this cruise? Callista loves you!
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:24amVery Bad just think what the clean up and tow is going to cost?? One thing is for sure is the some one is going to lose there job over this wreck !!!!!!!!
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:23am.
Report Post »How can you write a story this long and never mention who owns the ship,
where it is based, and what cruise line it represents?
bjorn-free
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:33amThere you go again holding the blaze up to some sort of minimal standard…did yah fergit they hired the best that money could buy from the huffpo……(what no sarcasm widget to play with ???)
er ah you do bring up excellent points again setting you up on the higher plane of rational people asking questions!
Report Post »Firefighter 538
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:47amThe Blaze took the story off The Associated Press wire. Let’s cast our aspersions on the AP .
Report Post »HawkEyeTx
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:22am#
Captain “Mis-Hap at it again.
Wasn’t the light house in operation at that time of night for the drunken sailors to chart a course?
Report Post »piper60
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:19amGonzo is right, of course. Having said that, this is why I wouldn’t go on a cruise, even if I could afford it.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:34amYou need too get out of the trailer park more often !!! I have been on many cruises its the best way to travel ,good food,’drink ,and entertainment. It beat getting in to a cattle car of the sky’s and crashing into the ground at 500 hundred miles an hour ?
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:35amNo you really should go piper i just returned last week from Mexico on the Carnival Triumph and it was a blast……………and more affordable than you think if you learn the ropes.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:17amName of the ship? USS OBAMA
Report Post »bolivar
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:16amWe cruise regularly and enjoy it. Costa is owned by Carnival PLC and the company is well run. I have a hard time believing some of the information in this story. For one thing, at least in the states they are anal about the lifeboat drill. I agree with most people that it is a pita but, it is LAW and with a damn good purpose behind it.
From other sources I have found out the ship had sailed 2 hours earlier and had an electrical fault. These boats are all electric so if they have no propulsion they cannot maneuver. As for the lifeboat drills, here Carnival runs theirs before the ship sails and maritime law requires it within the first 24 hours. I will bet that changes to immediately on boarding now.
I am praying for those lost and I also pray for the crew and even the Captain because even if he was not at fault, he is responsible and will bear the lost life and that is not an easy thing to deal with.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:20amThe first thing you notice. They are real close to the shore, which makes no sense.
I too have been on a few Cruises, never a problem and they also practice the drills before leaving the port.
Report Post »Charles
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:14am“Passenger Mara Parmegiani, a journalist, told the ANSA news agency that “it was like a scene from the Titanic.”
A typical fool journalist. Why is it that 999 out of 1000 journalists are hopeless helpless total and complete fools ? Oh, and communists too. Not to complain. Just an observation.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:36amProbably because 999 out of 1000 Lawyers explained her how to cash in on this. Like our Congress, (Mostly lawyers)cash in on the American Taxpayers Wallets
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:23pmI know what you mean I worked in the restaurant bizz for a number of years in the 70’s and 80’s and if you were a slacker and a goof off didn’t carry your share of quality work you got pushed out the door one way or the other but now if a slacker you get promoted to general manager ASAP.
It seems like every year you see more and more managers that don’t know what they are doing and they are all young and it’s not the pay they get paid more that I did.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:12amsomeone must have been asleep at the wheel or on drugs. well it is a party boat.
Report Post »MrKnowItAll
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:07amThe Bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Report Post »Never will I ask my wife to go on a cruise again. She never will and now I won’t either.
Dustoff
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:22amDon’t leave your house either.
Stupid comment at best
Report Post »tankyjo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:06amRight on SUBDOC! Maybe the captain had his pension reduced 2%.YUK!
Report Post »ares338
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:47amOoooooooops….did I do thaaaaat? That‘s why I don’t do cruises.
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:50amIs better than airplanes.
Report Post »MADASHELLONE
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:32amBoth suck I keep my feet on the ground.
Report Post »snupedoug
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:43amThis kind of incident wouldn’t have anything to do with the placement of and mad rush to the buffet line would it?…just checking.
Report Post »bjorn-free
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:35amwell think about it….amerika’s most brilliant mind was concerned that a few extra Marines would tilt an island and topple over…so you see the mad dash to the buffet line may be root cause…!!!
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:40amTrust me when i say that the buffet food is not worth running to as you will need to save you energy running to the bathroom afterwards………………
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:41amHey Blaze, I hope you keep us updated, I want to find out how they get that boat out of the water or what they do to it. Shouldn’t these boats have some kind of sonar by know that alerts them to objects under water? I mean, a dad burned fish finder would have seen that coming.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:07amMost of these cruise ships do have fathometers of some type, yes, just like a ‘fish finder’ that develop a picture of the contours of the bottom and most still have accurate charts. And a modern cruise Captain would have reviewed those charts and the distance from land for key points along the way. Like this one.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:11amIt will become a scuba diver’s dream.
Report Post »Susie
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:23amWhere are all the eco-nutzis screaming pollution !!??
Report Post »Just ask’n.
Sumrknght
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:23amThere’s going to wind up being a lot more dead than just six. That’s all they found – so far. How awful.
A fishing boat of any size would have a depth finder… good grief, did they have the guy from the Exxon Valdez piloting this thing?
Report Post »subdoc
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:20amLooks just like the italian economy
Report Post »LIBS-ARE-DINGLEHEADS
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:21amLOL. Berlusconi was at the wheel.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:39amWell, that explains what the captain’s distraction was.
Report Post »Michael Harris
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:10amExactly Gonzo, except this time it will be intentional, no where to run to and no one coming to the rescue.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:06amWhen news breaks, Russia TV always seems to be there. I also notice their media is not as liberally biased as US TV.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:41amReporters that don’t bow down to Putin go missing. I’m sure Obama is envious. Some archeolgist will find them in couple thousand years in Siberia.
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:40amSurely you jest?
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:01amIt always bad when you run into LAND in a BOAT.
And you can be sure the 6 dead are crew – they are housed deep inside the boat at the bottom levels, and that is where they work. A few of them would have been right there when the gash opened.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:57amTake a good look folks, it will give you a good look into the future of America when Obama crashes the dollar.
Report Post »Michael Harris
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:06amExactly Gonzo, but with America it will be intentional and no where to escape to.
Report Post »ronaldreaganthegreat
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:36amagree Gonzo!
Report Post »Better Dead Than Red
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:15pmWake up, fool. He’s already run this ship into the rocks and the gash is clearly present.
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