[arista]

A Human Ladder to stay Alive

This Morning the Diver Team Exploaded a Area they wanted to get into
just enough to open it out.

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"One by one: Infra-red footage shows
passengers of the Costa Concordia
queuing up (on the right) and then
slipping down one-by-one (on the left)
the belly of the ship via a rope"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1jjCodAnb


Current Dead now 11

[Me. I Am Salman]

they found the body of a woman in a lifejacket
rip

[arista]

Yes and local TV claims there are some Dead
that are not registered as customers of the cruise.

Of course the Criuse Company
will not admit to that


So I assume the Fish May Eat them?

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16812784

Italian divers have abandoned their search for bodies inside the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia after conditions underwater deteriorated.

"We have definitively stopped the underwater search inside the ship," a spokesman for the fire brigade on the island of Giglio said.

Fifteen people are still missing after the ship ran aground off Italy on 13 January with the loss of 17 lives.

Work to recover the capsized vessel may take up to 10 months.

Italy's civil protection agency, which has been overseeing rescue efforts, said it had contacted families of the missing and the foreign embassies involved, to explain its decision.

Emergency crews would continue to inspect the part of the ship that is above the water line and use specialist equipment to check whether there could be any corpses on the sea bed, it said.

The BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome says the decision will add to the anguish suffered by families of those missing.

Fire service spokesman Luca Cari said instruments monitoring the movements of the ship showed that it was no longer safe for divers.

"The indications we received two days ago... have led to a new analysis of the situation. Therefore, the data has been studied by the scientific committee and this has led us to believe that it is no longer possible to work inside."

He said work would continue in dry areas of the ship.

"Our rescue workers are still able to work there, so they are continuing the search. And we are also carrying on with the underwater search outside the ship," he said.

Divers have described tricky conditions inside the ship, with submerged cabins and tilted corridors filled with rotting debris.

Dives have been limited to a maximum of 50 minutes, making it difficult to penetrate far into the vessel.

At the same time there has been constant concern about the stability of the wreck, perched on a rocky ledge close to deeper water.

The line has to be drawn somewhere - it's probably time to let salvage commence - any human remains may be more easily (and safely) retrieved when the ship is refloated or cut up .....

[Omah]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-rad...risoners-wives

Terror At Sea: The Sinking Of The Concordia
8pm, Channel 4

At the time of writing, the death toll of passengers lost on the cruise ship the Costa Concordia is 17 people, with another 16 still missing. This continues to be an evolving situation and, as such, there's virtually no pre-information on this programme, although a sober investigation of the regulations to which such ships must adhere, the general competency, sense of honour of their captains etc, is likely to be under scrutiny.

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17127278

Search teams have found four more bodies in the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia which capsized on 13 January, Italian media report.

The body of a girl of five is among those believed to have been found.

Officials say 32 people died in the disaster but only 17 bodies had been retrieved before the new announcement.

An official on the island of Giglio where the ship ran aground confirmed media reports that bodies had been found but could not say how many.

The bodies were located in the submerged part of the wreck. One of them was said to be Dayana Arlotti, from Rimini, who had been on the ship with her father.

Francesca Maffini told AFP news agency that an operation to recover the bodies was under way.

"The bodies are in a state of decomposition after all this time in the water," she said.

[Kizzy]

What a harrowing job, its people like this that deserve medals not singers and actors.

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17243833

Key information about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia cruise ship is being handed over to a panel of experts during a pre-trial hearing in Italy.

At least 30 people are believed to have died when the ship struck rocks off the Tuscan coast on 13 January.

Captain Francesco Schettino denies accusations of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship before all those aboard were evacuated.

He will not attend the hearing, in the town of Grosseto, his lawyer says.

Bruno Leporatti said it would be "unnecessary" for Mr Schettino to leave his home in the town of Meta di Sorrento, near Naples - where he is under house arrest - to attend the hearing.

Some 250 people have gathered in a theatre in Grosseto that has become the venue for the hearing, according to Italy's La Repubblica newspaper.

The number is expected to swell further as 70 lawyers and their teams, representing survivors and relatives of victims, continue to arrive.

No journalists or members of the public are allowed to attend.

During the hearing, judges will question experts about the wrecking of the 114,500-tonne liner.

Investigators who have been amassing evidence and testimony since the crash will hand it over to a court-appointed panel of experts made up of two naval experts and two academics.

The BBC's Alan Johnston, in Rome, says these four will have the task of trying to reconstruct what happened and apportion degrees of culpability and blame. He says the process will probably take months.

I suspect that the full story will be even worse than the reports that we've had so far .....

[Mrluvaluva]

Five more bodies have been found in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which struck a reef off the coast of Italy in January.

The discovery raises to 30 the number of bodies recovered. Two people remain missing and are presumed dead.

News of three bodies was revealed by Franco Gabrielli, the head of the Civil Protection agency who is in charge of search and salvage operations.

It later emerged two more bodies had been found by divers.


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[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

rofl @ the title... the titanic?

didnt thousands die on the titanic -_-

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Scott

rofl @ the title... the titanic?

didnt thousands die on the titanic -_-

Hohohohoho - it's really funny, isn't it .....

FYI, the Titanic carried over 2,200 people – 1,316 passengers and about 900 crew - the death toll was 1517.

Costa Concordia was carrying 4,200 passengers and crew when its hull was torn open by rocks.

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17501681

Work to remove fuel from the wreck of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been completed, the Italian authorities announced.

More than 2,000 tonnes of fuel and sewage were drained from the ship which capsized after hitting rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio on 13 January.

There had been fears that pristine waters in the area might be polluted.

Thirty people died in the disaster and a further two remain missing, presumed dead.

An excellent job being done by all concerned