A fresh opportunity to start pillorying Capitano Francesco Shittino all over again

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just lovely

[B]Costa Concordia Trial Intensifies: Recordings of Captain Are Damning[/B]

By MarEx
December 09, 2013

Hundreds of passengers were still aboard the Costa Concordia when the captain fled in a lifeboat, an Italian Coast Guard official confirmed to the court on Monday. He added that responders received initial notice of the shipwreck’s severity only after a passenger used a cell phone to call family.

Coast Guard Captain Gregorio De Falco, who is now revered as a national hero, repeatedly ordered Francesco Schettino, the commander on trial, to return to the badly listing vessel.

De Falco told the court that the Concordia sent out its first distress signal nearly an hour after the incident took place. Before that, the ship’s officers reportedly kept reassuring officials that everything was fine onboard, even insisting that the luxury liner had only suffered a power outage.

According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, De Falco testified that local police informed the Coast Guard that a relative of a passenger called them to say that passengers had been ordered to throw on life vests, and that furniture was falling around them as the cruise ship began listing badly to one side. A customs police boat, which had rushed to the scene, also told the Coast Guard the ship had capsized.

The court heard recorded phone conversations between De Falco and Schettino. Also played was a recording of another conversation in which Schettino is aboard a lifeboat and mutters that there are about 10 people still on the Concordia. But the Coast Guard had heard that as many as 300 passengers and crew were still aboard.

De Falco said he ordered rescuers to be lowered from a helicopter to bring dozens of people who were clinging to parts of the ship to safety.

Many passengers and crew jumped overboard in escape attempts when lifeboats could no longer be lowered because of the Concordia’s list. Autopsies found that many of the victims who weren’t evacuated drowned aboard the ship, as water surged into the vessel.

Schettino is charged with manslaughter, abandoning ship and of causing the January 2012 shipwreck by sailing too close to the Tuscan island of Giglio. The Concordia smashed into a reef, which gashed the hull, sending water pouring in – and ending 32 lives. Schettino risks 20 years if convicted. He insists the reef wasn’t on the ship’s navigational charts and that he helped direct the evacuation after reaching land.

Media reports state that Schettino had his head down, while talking with defense lawyers, when the court listened to the conversation.

speaking of cretinous captains…I wonder where Paul Watson is hiding these days?

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I hope that they hang the Bastard! But maybe they could wait until he could meet with some of the survivors (or families of those lost) for a little alone time, then if he survives hang him.

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[QUOTE=Tugs;125964]I hope that they hang the Bastard! But maybe they could wait until he could meet with some of the survivors (or families of those lost) for a little alone time, then if he survives hang him.[/QUOTE]

Yes, a public stoning I believe is in order for the infamous fool

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No.

He should go the way his victims did… Cast him overboard in the cold and dark and let him flail for his life. With no lifeboat to “fall into” this time.

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[QUOTE=catherder;125983]No.

He should go the way his victims did… Cast him overboard in the cold and dark and let him flail for his life. With no lifeboat to “fall into” this time.[/QUOTE]

actually, since many of the fatalities on the CC were persons trapped in elevators, let’s lock the Shitster into a small box with no lights on inside with very cold water level going up and down repeatedly at random with no way for the cretin to know if the next time will be when it fills all the way to the top. Make sure that the water gets up to no less than 6" from the top each time so our coward has to gulp last breaths each time as it is his last! I figure three days of that torture and the asshole won’t care anymore and just want to breath in that last fatal time. Then the FUCKER will be gone forever from the earth!

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I just can’t get this out of my mind. What the eff was Captain Chickenofthesea thinking when he left his mortally wounded vessel with 300 passengers on board struggling to survive?

No bullshit - I, and I bet most of us here would rather perish under the waves than abandon those who safety we are entrusted.

I’m not saying that with any bravado whatsoever. There are certain risks and responsibilities in this industry. We willingly accept that responsibility and the associated consequences.

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[QUOTE=Jetryder223;125999]I just can’t get this out of my mind. [B]What the eff was Captain Chickenofthesea thinking when he left his mortally wounded vessel with 300 passengers on board struggling to survive?[/B]

No bullshit - I, and I bet most of us here would rather perish under the waves than abandon those who safety we are entrusted.

I’m not saying that with any bravado whatsoever. There are certain risks and responsibilities in this industry. We willingly accept that responsibility and the associated consequences.[/QUOTE]
He thought he was Greek

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[QUOTE=powerabout;126012]He thought he was Greek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS_Oceanos[/QUOTE]

Unfuckingbelievable. What is it with these Greek & Italian cruise ship officers?

As God is my witness - if I am ever in command - I will be the LAST survivor off the ship. If I die trying - so be it.

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This from the link posted by powerabout:

Captain Yiannis Avranas was accused by the passengers of leaving hundreds behind with no one other than the ship’s onboard entertainers to help them evacuate. Avranas claimed that he left the ship first to arrange for a rescue effort, and then supervised the rescue from a helicopter. Avranas stated: “When I order abandon the ship, it doesn’t matter what time I leave. Abandon is for everybody. If some people like to stay, they can stay.”[9]

In my mind, this defense is such bullshit. The order “Abandon Ship” does not mean every man for himself. It means the vessel is in grave danger and it is time to execute an orderly evacuation.

I get so angry over this shit.

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[QUOTE=c.captain;125988]actually, since many of the fatalities on the CC were persons trapped in elevators, let’s lock the Shitster into a small box with no lights on inside with very cold water level going up and down repeatedly at random with no way for the cretin to know if the next time will be when it fills all the way to the top. Make sure that the water gets up to no less than 6" from the top each time so our coward has to gulp last breaths each time as it is his last! I figure three days of that torture and the asshole won’t care anymore and just want to breath in that last fatal time. Then the FUCKER will be gone forever from the earth![/QUOTE]

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

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[QUOTE=powerabout;126012]He thought he was Greek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS_Oceanos[/QUOTE]

It’s easy to mix up chickens#its. Seems like they all come from the same damaged DNA.

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I like the creative ways to execute Il Capitano Schmuckatelli. Such a shame that Italy has no death penalty.

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[QUOTE=seadog6608;126036]I like the creative ways to execute Il Capitano Schmuckatelli. Such a shame that Italy has no death penalty.[/QUOTE]

here’s one…let’s spiral slice him with very thin razors just like a holiday ham!

I can go all day if you’d like

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If you watch some of the on board video in the background you can hear Captain Yiannis Avranas voice on the PA

Abandon Ship. Woman and Children first? Follow me your Captain

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this one is my personal favorite

//youtu.be/9RiVd4fTfNE

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[QUOTE=c.captain;126055]here’s one…let’s spiral slice him with very thin razors just like a holiday ham! I can go all day if you’d like[/QUOTE]

Now that you mentioned Italians and ham, there’s this: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/italian-mafia-boss-fed-alive-pigs-article-1.1531798

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I will donate my pigs time

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here we go again…the craven Shitster is disgorging diarrhea from his mouth again

[B]Two Years After Concordia Wreck, Captain Returns Aboard[/B]

February 27, 2014 By MarEx

The captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, went back on board on Thursday for the first time since the huge cruise liner sank with the loss of 32 lives just over two years ago, accompanying experts investigating the capsize.

The twisted wreck of the 290-meter-long ship, now stabilized after a complex salvage operation last year, sits propped up on underwater platforms just outside the port of Giglio, the island off the Tuscan coast where it capsized on Jan. 13, 2012.

Schettino, who faces multiple charges including manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, went aboard the vessel with a expert team appointed by the court but was only present as a defendant and was taking no active part in the investigation.

However he reacted angrily to the scrum of reporters awaiting him onshore when he returned.

"You’re really harassing me," he said as he was bombarded by questions. “I’ve given my technical contribution as captain, I’ve given precise details that will help the final investigation,” he said but declined to answer questions.

It is the first time Schettino has been aboard since the Concordia, carrying 4,229 passengers and crew, struck a reef while performing a display manoeuvre in which it came close to shore to “salute” the port.

Residents of Giglio, a tiny island that lives off tourism, are impatient to see the wreck towed away and reaction to Schettino’s visit was largely “indifferent”, the mayor of Giglio, Sergio Ortelli said.

“I don’t why he wanted to come here, maybe to see things,” said Ariento Italo, a resident. “I just don’t know what he is going to do - he will see things that he already knows and anyway everything is all smashed up.”

GENERATORS

His lawyers say the investigation will be able to ascertain whether the ship’s equipment was working correctly or whether malfunctions caused the incident or worsened conditions during the chaotic nighttime evacuation of the ship.

“We’ve been asking for these checks for two years,” said Domenico Pepe, one of Schettino’s defense team. “If the generator had worked properly nothing would have happened. Without the generator, the rudder, the lights, the doors, the pumps and the lifeboats didn’t work.”

Sources familiar with the investigation said the generator would be taken apart for further examination.

“The generator switch did not function correctly during the shipwreck and we still have to understand if these were pre-existing problems or whether they were caused by the accident,” said one of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

Stripped of his maritime licence, Schettino is the only person on trial after four crew members and an official of the ship operator Costa Cruises were sentenced to terms of up to 34 months in prison after pleading guilty last year.

He has admitted that he bears responsibility for the accident as the ship’s captain. But he says that he is not the only person to blame and has pushed for the vessel to be examined for evidence of possible technical faults.

“The exact responsibilities will be established during the trial, there are precise rules which will be examined by the competent people,” he said.

However the investigation has already been clouded by allegations that two officials of the ship’s owners, Costa Cruises, boarded the wreck without authorization. A separate probe has been opened into the two.

By Silvia Ognibene (C) Reuters 2014.

WHAT A MISERABLE POMPOUS ASSHOLE! I say, “harass away boys…” Let the COWARD have it between the eyes!

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Why does the Captain [B]always[/B] blame the Engineers after he f*cks up?

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[QUOTE=txwooley;131902]Why does the Captain [B]always[/B] blame the Engineers after he f*cks up?[/QUOTE]

You got that right. My personal favorite is 'The Steering System Malfunctioned". I fucking hated that excuse. But you know I guess if you include the guy who was in charge (as being part of the Steering System) at the time it could be an accurate description. I guess that maybe it was a System Malfunction, but that malfunction started in his head and continued down to his hand which caused the steering system to go the wrong way.

When in doubt blame the Engineers!