Cruise ship aground near Giglio
 

BBC says. Fortunately not too many dead yet considering how many people were aboard. Still, hard to imagine everything happening there at the moment. Especially since there apparently was a wide spread panic among the passengers.

And somehow hypnotizing watching that photo of such gigantic construct of a small human being looking like that.

Seems the ones that died did so because they leaped overboard. That's a big boat, hitting the water after leaping from one of the upper decks is gonna be pretty much like hitting concrete.

Divers are now searching for possible trapped and survivors.

I love when I read this (in American press), the article had to tell how many Americans were on board in order to make us care.:O:

Enough gallows humor. I was irritated at the ineptness of the captain post accident. He should know that steaming ahead in a ship with a hole in it only makes the water come in faster.

Who gave him the damage control report, saying it was ok to steam towards shore?

This was a Captain more interested in easy salvage of the ship, rather than the lives of the passengers, as well as inept underlings.

Nasty, very nasty. Sounds like a quite badly run ship, on the up side though at least it was close to shore so those who got into lifeboats or swum didn't have far to go. Still nasty though, even the Med at this time of year can't be too warm.
I hear they tried to do the Women and Children first with the lifeboats but it quickly broke down as families didn't want to be split up and men didn't want to be left behind.

I found it difficult at first to understand just how close to the shore is "near the shore". Well apparently pretty close:

http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img...517x/27283.jpg

I wonder how the locals will react. Looting is not unheard of, but a ship of that size if probably also going to put some unwanted stuff into their waters.

:roll:

Finnish newspaper Aamulehti quotes a passenger saying: "Have you seen Titanic? It was like that."

Not to belittle anyone and I understand many of them are in shock, but no, sorry, I'm just not seeing the resemblance here.

On the up side (again) it should be a relatively easy salvage job once all is said and done.

I shall second that ":roll:" (<-heh, kinda looks like a bunny or something)

I leave for a few months, and you guys go off and wreck a ship without me?!? :stare::hmph:

Knew something was missing. :hmmm:

(In keeping with the honest spirit of Finland, I didn't notice you were gone. I apologize. :oops:)

Oh snap... :doh:

But I missed you in any case!!! :O:

Really? Er... how many shots did you fire? :hmm2:

100 round belt with a SAW. (it's quite difficult to control the recoil when you're the size of a ferret, you know..)