I lay awake enduring sleepless nights thinking of the horrors of those on the Costa Concordia - hell, so akin to the Titanic what with its pleasant water temperature and land not 200 metres away - I bet James Cameron is already penning the script of the absolute horrors endured by the passengers and crew as we speak. I reckon the movie will end with Leo just getting up and walking the f&@k into town. Not a dry eye in the house.
(Disclaimer - I stole this from a mate on Facebook!
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(2nd Disclaimer - condolences to those who actually did suffer)
A modern ship with state of the art technology and still human errors occur.... just be be thankful it was a ship rather than a Nuclear Power Plant in your local neighbourhood.
without wanting to take away from the terror of being in a ship that collided with reef and nearly capsised ...
... I looked at the photo's and thought to myself, "if only it had tipped another 1 degree everyone could have just stepped off the funnel onto the land next door".
What the hell was it doing that close to the island, even blind freddie could have seen it was about to run aground 
Did the passengers leave the ship thinking it was sinking?
Otherwise it looks quite safe (for now) on top of it...
I reccon there was a bloke rock fishing, cast out, got onto a big one, reeled it in, then got snagged.....
Captain is going to get the full 12 years under Italian maritime law for abandoning ship (deserved too imo). cruise company already has 70 lawsuits filed against it too.More deceased folks recovered today - appalling really.
dont worry too much......they will weld it up, pump it out , and refurbish it all for the live sheep trade out of Aussie....."Comming to a Port Near You SOON"[}:)]
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wow that phone call vid doesn't do much for the skippers reputation but I suppose he thought he was being proactive. I heard the skippers on the lifeboats had no idea so I guess he thought he would go help. total balls up and lives have been lost because of incompetence.
Apparently the Concordia's Bean Counter (accountant) was a hero 
, saved folks and marshalled like that skipper should have but didn't
Wife - "can i drive?"
Husband - "No I'm fine"
Wife - "oh please let me. I really want to!"
Husband - "No"
Wife - " I tell you what, if you let me drive, just for a bit, when we get home i'll give you a blow job"
Husband - "really?"
Wife - "Promise"
Husband - "oh go on then"
....and that your honor is the final entry in the black box on the Costa Concordia.
High side cabins would have had the doors now on the floor. Low side cabins would need to climb up to the door. But cabins are small, and with a quick shuffle of beds and furniture, it would be easy enough to get to the door, provided you could also open it. But the ship must have been at 20 degrees at some point... I imagine it would have slowly gone over, and that is probably why so many people got out with probably only minor hassles...
Those cabin doors are pretty light. They would be easy to kick open, provided you could get into the right position... I think most people would have escaped with the ship at 10-25 degrees tilt. Which would have been easy enough. Like a drunken walk down a hallway!
I heard that all the cabins had electronic swipe cards for entry and once the ship lost power the doors could not be opened. So anyone still in their cabins were locked in. If that is the case that has to be one of the worst ideas of all time. Surely if the ship loses power the cabins should automatically unlock as you would think the only time a modern ship loses power is when something has gone wrong and people need to be getting themselves on deck ready to board a liferaft. Just my thoughts anyway.
Winston Churchill was asked in 1947 why he was taking a cruise on an Italian ship
He replied because the food is first class the service is first class and they dont have that idea of women and children first !
I just love some of Winstons one liners !
