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The vessel is expected to be out of service for the remainder of our current fiscal year if not longer," it said in a statement to the London Stock Exchange.
Coast Guard: Hello.
Captain: Good evening, chief.
Coast Guard: Listen, this is De Falco from Livorno. Am I speaking with the captain?
Captain: Good evening, Chief De Falco.
Coast Guard: Tell me your name, please.
Captain: I am Captain Schettino, chief.
Coast Guard: Schettino?
Captain: Yes.
Coast Guard: Listen, Schettino. There are people trapped on board. Now, you go with your lifeboat. Under the bow of the ship, on the right side, there is a ladder. You climb on that ladder and go on board the ship. Go on board the ship and get back to me and tell me how many people are there. Is that clear. I am recording this conversation, Captain Schettino.
(Captain tries to speak but Coast Guard can't hear him clearly. Voices in the Coast Guard room.)
Coast Guard: Speak up! (captain tries to speak) Captain, put your hand over the microphone and speak in a louder voice!
Captain: At this moment the ship is listing.
Coast Guard: There are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board. Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear?
Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!
(Noise can be heard in the background. Apparently other Coast Guard officers are shouting to each other in the same room about "the ship, the ship")
Captain: Please ...
Coast Guard: There is no 'please' about it. Get back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!
Captain: I'm in a lifeboat, I am under here. I am not going anywhere. I am here.
Coast Guard: What are you doing, captain?
Captain: I am here to coordinate the rescue...
Coast Guard (interrupting): What are you coordinating there! Get on board! Coordinate the rescue from on board! Are you refusing?
Captain: No, I am not refusing.
Coast Guard: Are you refusing to go aboard, captain? Tell me the reason why you are not going back on board.
Captain: (inaudible)... there is a another lifeboat...
Coast Guard (interrupting, yelling): You get back on board! That is an order! There is nothing else for you to consider. You have sounded the "Abandon Ship." Now I am giving the orders. Get back on board. Is that clear? Don't you hear me?
Captain: I am going aboard.
Coast Guard: Go! Call me immediately when you are on board. My rescue people are in front of the bow.
Captain: Where is your rescue craft?
Coast Guard: My rescue craft is at the bow. Go! There are already bodies, Schettino. Go!
Captain: How many bodies are there?
Coast Guard: I don't know! ... Christ, you should be the one telling me that!
Captain: Do you realize that it is dark and we can't see anything?
Coast Guard: So, what do you want to do, to go home, Schettino?! It's dark and you want to go home? Go to the bow of the ship where the ladder is and tell me what needs to be done, how many people there are, and what they need! Now!
Captain: My second in command is here with me.
Coast Guard: Then both of you go! Both of you! What is the name of your second in command?
Captain: His name is Dmitri (static)"
Coast Guard: What is the rest of his name? (static) You and your second in command get on board now! Is that clear?
Captain: Look, chief, I want to go aboard but the other lifeboat here has stopped and is drifting. I have called ...
Coast Guard (interrupting): You have been telling me this for an hour! Now, go aboard! Get on board, and tell me immediately how many people there are!
Captain: OK, chief.
Coast Guard: Go! Immediately!
The captain of the Italian cruise ship gave a slapstick explanation of how he ended up safely in a lifeboat instead of going down with his ship, saying he tripped and fell into the boat as it was being lowered into the sea, Italian media reported today.
"I had no intention of escaping," Francesco Schettino, 52, said during his first court hearing Tuesday, according to Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
"I was helping some passengers put the life boat to sea. At a certain point the mechanism for lowering it, blocked. We had to force it. Suddenly the system unblocked itself and I tripped and I found myself inside the life boat with a number of passengers."
Once in the lifeboat that was lowered into the sea, Schettino insisted to the court that it was "impossible to go back onboard."
The captain also reportedly admitted to the court that he lied at one point when he assured officials that he had dropped anchor shortly after the Costa Concordia slammed into a rock to stabilize the luxury liner.
However a video by the Guardia di Finanza who arrived onsite 10 minutes after the disaster clearly shows that the anchor had not been lowered. Schettino admitted Tuesday that he lied about the anchor, the newspaper reported.
The luxury cruise ship was carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew when it struck rocks Friday evening near Giglio off the coast of Tuscany, during a close pass to shore. At least 11 people were killed in the aftermath when the ship keeled over. Nearly two dozen people are still missing, including an American couple from Minnesota.
Schettino reportedly admitted that he made mistakes that led to the crash and afterwards, but said the ship's course, including the now-controversial close pass, had been set from the beginning. The cruise line previously said Schettino had made an unauthorized deviation from the programmed route.
Schettino, who is currently under house arrest, is under investigation for potentially causing the wreck by steering into the rocks and then abandoning the panicked passengers for a lifeboat as the ship plunged over on its side. In recorded radio transmissions released Tuesday, Schettino is heard telling Italian Port Authority officials he and other officers abandoned ship.
"And with 100 people still on board, you abandon ship? [expletive]," the Port Authority officer says in response.
Schettino appears to correct himself, saying, "I didn't abandon any ship... because the ship turned on its side quickly and we were catapulted into the water."
The recording goes on to show the Port Authority official repeatedly berating Schettino for not going back to the ship to coordinate rescue efforts, and at one point ordering Schettino to "get back on board for [expletive]'s sake!"
Italians appear divided on how to view the embattled cruise captain.
Some, like Schettino's neighbor, said he "is a hero who saved over 4,000 people," Italy's ANSA news outlet reported. Schettino's wife said Tuesday her husband made some quick decisions after the initial impact that helped save passenger's lives.
"It is for this reason that we feel the need to strongly reject any attempt to delegitimize him and ask you to understand his tragedy and personal drama," Fabiola Russo told reporters Tuesday.
In editorials in Italian newspapers, however, Schettino was heavily criticized, one calling him the "coward captain" and another saying the incident shows the Italian national character with its greatness and "all its shortcomings."
Online Facebook groups have reportedly emerged on either side of the argument.
hydroep wrote:The vessel is expected to be out of service for the remainder of our current fiscal year if not longer," it said in a statement to the London Stock Exchange.
LOL...so they expect to put it back in service? Who in their right mind will travel on that ship knowing its history?...
cinco wrote:he sound like he hav trini in he yes
A "care team" from Costa Cruises has reached stranded passengers — including 13 Canadians — on an Italian cruise ship damaged by an engine-room fire, late Wednesday morning, the company said, as those on board faced a third day without power on the vessel in the Indian Ocean.
The team boarded the ship Wednesday and met with passengers to assess their needs as they get ready to disembark early Thursday, said Buck Banks, spokesman for the Miami-based Carnival Corp., the Costa Allegra's parent company.
An engine room fire on the Costa Allegra, which is owned by the company whose giant liner smashed into rocks off Italy last month, knocked out the ship's main power supply on Monday, disabling the engines in waters prowled by pirates.
According to Banks, nine marines are on board the ship to help with security.
The Trevignon, a French deep sea tuna trawler dwarfed by the liner, is pulling the Costa Allegra along at a speed of six knots.
"Efforts were made to add a tug (to help tow) but it didn't work," George Adeline, the commander of the Seychelles' coast guard, told Reuters.
A military aircraft is also flying in support of the operation.
A small generator had been transferred onto the crippled vessel, but was only powerful enough to run its auxiliary communication system, not the air conditioning or cooking systems, Adeline said.
"The ship crew is doing everything possible to make the situation on board more comfortable trying to restore basics services on board," Costa Cruises said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
With no lights working onboard, the company said it had dropped hundreds of flashlights onto the ship to help at night.
Out of 627 passengers, 376 have accepted Costa Cruises' proposal to continue vacationing in the Seychelles: 241 will be staying for two weeks while 135 have opted for one week, the company said in a release.
The company said it will be picking up the tab to accommodate guests at "high-quality hotels" on four Seychelles Islands: Praslin, La Digue, Silhouette and Cerfs.
Costa Cruises will arrange the flights of the remaining 251 guests who will depart Seychelles on Thursday evening.
It is unclear how many Canadians opted to continue their vacation and how many will be flying home soon.
Banks told Postmedia News a satellite phone was delivered by helicopter on Tuesday to the ship's captain to help co-ordinate the tow of the ship to Mahe, the main island of Seychelles, which is expected to conclude by 1 a.m. Thursday.
Without power, the satellite communication network on the ship is unable to provide cellphone coverage outside of emergency purposes, he explained.
Costa "care teams" have contacted the families of all passengers, Banks said.
According to Carnival Corp., fresh bread will be delivered by helicopter, and soft drinks, cold foods such as fruits, cold cuts and cheese are being served on board. Mineral water is being provided for personal hygiene needs.
The passengers, including four children, are from 25 different nations, with the largest contingents being 127 from France and 126 from Italy.
Along with the Canadians, there are 38 Germans, 31 Britons, and eight Americans on board.
Air Transat spokeswoman Debbie Cabana said four Quebec passengers booked their cruise on the ship through a Quebec-based travel agency.
"They had the opportunity to contact their family to inform them they were OK," she said in an email.
The Costa Allegra left Diego Suarez in Madagascar on Saturday and, sailing northeast, had been due to dock in Mahe on Tuesday.
The Costa Allegra, at 29,000 tonnes, is several times smaller than the huge Costa Concordia which capsized off the Italian island of Giglio, killing at least 25 people. Divers and rescue workers are searching for the bodies of seven still missing more than six weeks after the Jan. 13 disaster.
A criminal investigation has been launched, with the cruise liner captain, Francesco Schettino, accused of manslaughter and abandoning the Costa Concordia before all the 4,200 passengers and crew had been able to get off the ship.
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