Costa Concordia Liberated

Feuer Frei! · 09-16-13, 06:35 AM

Big big job. And expensive too:

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Engineering officials in Italy say they have succeeded in lifting the cruise ship Costa Concordia free of rocks, 20 months after it ran aground

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24104741

Jimbuna · 09-16-13, 08:28 AM

There was an interesting piece on the lunchtime news in the UK...if all goes well she'll be upright by the end of the day...there are still two bodies missing though.

soopaman2 · 09-16-13, 08:47 AM

Wow, it really took awhile.

This is the ship with the coward captain that ran away, and refused the CGs pleas to go back on board and be responisible for his ship and passengers?

Yechhh, good work to the salvage crews, but this duty shirking captain really annoys me.

Whatever happened to him?

Feuer Frei! · 09-16-13, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

Whatever happened to him?

He is standing trial for manslaughter.

Captain Coward they call him in Italy.

soopaman2 · 09-16-13, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

He is standing trial for manslaughter.

Captain Coward they call him in Italy.

Vile pig.

This whole thing was preventable, and he could have even saved face if he stayed on board.

I think he claimed the company liked them to hug the coast to give a view, he may have had a chance with that claim if he stayed aboard.

Dammit, I feel like that lawyer from Breaking Bad, finding ways to get scum off.

Jimbuna · 09-16-13, 09:00 AM

I can't see him getting off in light of the overwhelming evidence against him.

Feuer Frei! · 09-16-13, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

Vile pig.

This whole thing was preventable, and he could have even saved face if he stayed on board.

I think he claimed the company liked them to hug the coast to give a view, he may have had a chance with that claim if he stayed aboard.

Dammit, I feel like that lawyer from Breaking Bad, finding ways to get scum off.

The company distanced themselves from him in the end. Originally they were also going to pay his legal costs. Good move.
As for the hugging of the coast? Wrong. He changed course to do a 'close-by-coast salute', he later said that he was never aware of there being rocks present at that location and that his nav maps never showed them.

He deviated off course, in unknown waters. First mistake.

I won't go into the other mistakes he made after that.

09-16-13, 08:28 AM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	There was an interesting piece on the lunchtime news in the UK...if all goes well she'll be upright by the end of the day...there are still two bodies missing though. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

09-16-13, 08:47 AM	#3
soopaman2 Der Alte Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 3,316 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	Wow, it really took awhile. This is the ship with the coward captain that ran away, and refused the CGs pleas to go back on board and be responisible for his ship and passengers? Yechhh, good work to the salvage crews, but this duty shirking captain really annoys me. Whatever happened to him? __________________ If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -Winston Churchill- The most fascinating man in the world.

09-16-13, 09:00 AM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I can't see him getting off in light of the overwhelming evidence against him. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!