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this is it
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it's over for us what's up guys my name
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is Jake I remember on the evening of
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January 13 2012 I saw a news report
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claiming that a Costa cruise ship had
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run aground off the coast of Italy it
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wasn't until the following morning when
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the first pictures began emerging that I
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saw the full extent of a tragedy that
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would not only change the cruise
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industry forever but would become the
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most infamous ship disaster next to the
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Titanic today I wanted to tell the
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incredible and truly unfathomable story
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of the sinking of the Costa Concordia so
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Costa or Costa cruise lines however you
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want to pronounce it is owned by the
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Carnival Corporation it was founded in
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the mid-1800s and eventually became a
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pretty prominent European cruise line it
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was eventually purchased by Carnival in
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2000 and began building ships based on
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the designs already proving very
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successful for Carnival Costa then began
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ordering ships based off the general
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design of carnivals conquest class just
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another 4,000 tons larger in 2004 Costa
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ordered the first ship of its brand-new
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class named the Costa Concordia the
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vessel completed construction and
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entered service for Costa on June 30th
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2006 at the cost of five hundred and
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seventy million dollars at the time the
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ship was the largest in the coast of
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fleets she was nine hundred and fifty
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two feet long had a beam of 116 feets
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span thirteen public decks and had a top
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speed of 23 knots the Concordia was the
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new flagship vessel of the coast of
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fleets and the company ensured that the
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ship would be the very best they had to
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offer while it wasn't anything that
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drastically different than the previous
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Carnival and coast of vessels it did
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feature a massive two-story spa along
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with four pools the ship center pool
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featured an outdoor movie screen and the
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kids / family pool would end from a
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twisting waterslide below the top decks
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the ship would feature five restaurants
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13 bars and the grand atrium that soared
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10
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Dorries it was a culmination of
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everything the modern cruise industry
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had and really was the new shining star
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for the Carnival Corporation she truly
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was a modern enormous cruise ship the
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Costa Concordia had 1502 guest cabins
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and 601 crew cabins allowing the vessel
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to carry a maximum of four thousand
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eight hundred and ninety people
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following the Concordia Costa ordered
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another five ships in its class all
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being sisters to the Concordia
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captaining the vessel since its 2006
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launch was Francesco Schettino an
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Italian man who had been working for
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Costa since 2002 the Concordia began
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cruises catering to the Italian market
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sailing mostly in the Mediterranean she
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continued with regular cruises carrying
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hundreds of thousands of passengers
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until early 2012 when one January night
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changed cruising forever the Costa
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Concordia was starting at seven-day
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Mediterranean cruise starting from the
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point of keg Lurie On January 11 2012
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after it stopped in Sicily the vessel
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arrived in Civita Vecchia Italy on
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Friday the 13th 2012 by sunset the Costa
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Concordia had set sail on its way to
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Savona the official course charted took
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the vessel directly down the center
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between Italy's mainland and the island
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of Giglio
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however deviation was made on the
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official route to take the vessel much
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closer to the island to perform what is
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known as a sale by salute this was a
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deliberate action to take the ship
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relatively close offshore to give
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passengers a unique view of the island
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and also as a nod to fellow sailors on
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land this isn't really a new thing for
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cruise ships nor is it new for the
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Concordia which had performed this
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maneuver several times before even for
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the island of Giglio as night falls the
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vessel is making its deviation course
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towards the island of Giglio on the
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bridge deck officers are guiding the
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ship as captain Schettino is eating
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dinner the officers on the bridge are
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instructed to keep at least 1500 feet
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away from the island shore as that was
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the determined safe distance by 9:40
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p.m. the Costa Concordia is moving at 15
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knots and is about to make its turn for
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the island the captain returns to the
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bridge along with his mistress yeah I'll
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talk about that a little later however
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there is a miscommunication
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between the captain to the officer at
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helm on what the correct turning course
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should be because of the incorrect
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heading numbers the turning radius of
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the ship to sail alongside the island
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was much wider than it should have been
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which brought the colossal ships 659
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metres closer to the shore than it was
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supposed to be the Concordia is
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immediately ordered by the captain to
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turn 20 degrees to the right
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seconds later at 9:44 p.m. the port side
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of the ship collides with underwater
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rocks creating a 60 metre gash in the
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hull breaching several watertight
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compartments the Concordia immediately
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lost power in its generators and full
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propulsion from its two engines panic
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ensued in the main dining rooms where
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passengers had been eating as the ship's
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emergency generators kicked in by 951 an
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announcement was made to passengers
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ensuring the situation had been under
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control and that technicians were
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working on fixing the problem
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however moments later the bridge was
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informed that three compartments had
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been breached and that water has reached
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the main electrical panel this was
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communicated to Costa cruise lines
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Crisis Center via captain Schettino
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minutes later by 1007 p.m. the harbour
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contacts the Concordia however the ship
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claims that the situation is only a
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blackouts and that they have the
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situation under control during this time
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the deputy chief engineer meets with the
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officers on the bridge to inform them
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that the flooding has appeared to reach
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compartments four five six and seven at
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this point the ship is starting to list
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as water fills the watertight
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compartments and the passengers are
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making their way down to deck four where
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the light boats are located themselves
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captain Schettino did make the decision
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to let the ship drift into shallow water
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where at worst case the vessel would
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rest on the seabed however his pumps
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failed the flooding worsened as to the
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ship's listing even at this time not the
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captain nor Costa cruise lines contacted
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anyone for help however as the situation
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below decks worsened and as passengers
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climbed into light boats themselves
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finally at 10:35 p.m. the bridge calls
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for an abandon ship and the emergency
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alarm is sounded there are currently
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four thousand two hundred and twenty
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nine people aboard the Costa Concordia
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by now all passengers and crew are
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making their way down to deck four and
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crowding around the light boats as one
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by one are launched at 11 o'clock p.m.
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the ship is now listing on its starboard
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side more than 25 degrees by this point
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any hope of the vessel being saved was
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gone and as light boats continue to
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launch the list continued to worsen by
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now the majority of the bridge officers
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had
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their positions including captain
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Schettino and by 11:30 the Costa
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Concordia is bridge had been abandoned
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as water reached deck for the sinking of
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the ship accelerated as listing got to
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the point where light boats being
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launched from the port side was
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impossible 80 people remained on the
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ship ascending down the side of the hull
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by a rope ladder where rescue boats by
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the Coast Guard were waiting captain
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Schettino however had already returned
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to the shore where the Coast Guard began
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demanding him to return to the vessel he
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never did
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the Coast Guard continued to rescue
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people still clinging to the side of the
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ship as most residents living on the
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island of Giglio welcomed the stranded
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passengers into their homes because of
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the way the Costa Concordia drifted on
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to shore the vessel rested on the
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shoreline rocks at around an 80 degree
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angle with its starboard side completely
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submerged by 6:17 a.m. rescue operations
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concluded and the Rising Sun revealed
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the true extent of the disaster since
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the vessel partially capsized on its
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starboard side the gaping hole on the
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port side showed just how severe the
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impact was daylight also revealed that
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three of the ships portside lifeboats
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were never able to be launched which is
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why so many people were left aboard the
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ship as a result of the capsizing
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thirty-two people have been killed 27 of
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whom had been passengers and five being
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crew members
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almost all of which had been trapped
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below as water rushed into the ship
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truly I can't even begin to imagine the
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horror it would have been like bodies
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were recovered mostly on the lower decks
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indicating people were trapped inside
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the vessel as a capsized in the atrium
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elevators four bodies had been
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discovered trapped inside as well as
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another nine bodies trapped in two other
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elevators soon after the wreck carnival
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and their insurance company had deemed
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the vessel a total loss as damages had
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exceeded 500 million dollars oil and
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fuel had been extracted
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salvage crews began working on removing
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the wreck however removing a 114
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thousand ton half submerged cruise ship
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proved to be a pretty daunting task the
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plan was to place a steel structure
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under the Concordia and turn it upright
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massive buoyancy tanks were welded to
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the ship's port side and on September
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16th 2013 the Costa Concordia was turned
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upright resting on the underwater
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platform turning the vessel upright
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showed just how unbelievably heavy the
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ship was as arrested on its side
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completely crushing sections of the
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ship's steel balconies up writing the
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vessel also allowed pictures to be taken
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inside showcasing the true extent of the
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damage it's so surreal to see a modern
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cruise ship have its interior slowly
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decay from being abandoned and untouched
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buoyancy tanks were fitted to the ship's
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other side the starboard side and the
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Concordia was slowly lifted off its
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platform now freely floating and on July
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14th the vessel was towed on its final
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voyage to the Italian port of Genoa
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where the ship was completely gutted
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scrapping began by cutting sections of
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the ship apart and by July of 2017 the
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Costa Concordia had been completely
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dismantled and sold for scrap metal the
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total cost of the salvage operation was
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1.2 billion dollars
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following the disaster the search to
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find who was responsible concluded with
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six arrests and prosecutions several of
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the Concordia's first officers were
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given jail sentences most mean under two
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years Costa cruise lines crisis director
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who captain Schettino had been
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contacting during the events had been
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given the longest sentence of the five
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with two years and 10 months as for
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captain Francesco Schettino himself well
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his story was well sketchy to say the
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least he claimed that during the ordeal
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he had been coordinating the rescue when
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he had slipped and stumbled into a
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lifeboat due to the listing of the ship
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a video later emerged of what appeared
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to be captain Schettino calmly standing
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at the railing on deck waiting to board
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a lifeboat though he claimed that this
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was not him it was also later revealed
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that he had been having an affair with a
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woman that he brought aboard the
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Concordia with note
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she by the way like I said earlier was
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taken to the bridge of the vessel when
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all of this happened
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however he assured that she did not
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affect the disaster he also claimed that
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he should not be responsible for the
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deaths of the 32 people aboard as they
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were not killed as a result of the
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initial impact and instead by the
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sinking the only good thing captain
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Schettino did was make the decision to
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deliberately ground the ship so it
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wouldn't fully sink if the Concordia
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sank about 700 feet where it eventually
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did the entire vessel would have likely
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went under and it's possible that many
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more people would have been killed
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Schettino was charged for manslaughter
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causing shipwreck and abandoning
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passengers he was given a 16 year jail
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sentence which he is currently serving
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the Carnival Corporation certainly felt
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the financial impact of the disaster in
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their 2012 annual report they claimed
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that as a direct result of the Costa
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Concordia incidents the company had lost
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410 million dollars in declined revenue
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though 2012 was not a great year for
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Carnival at all with the addition of the
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Carnival Triumph power failure in the
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same year Carnival offered each of the
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Concordia survivors $13,000 which
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included the refund of their cruise
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great honestly I just think the whole
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situation is truly unbelievable
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I don't really like Carnival at all and
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I think I have a fair reason to the
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company Gannet subsidiaries have done so
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many shady things and the safety
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features that had implemented on the
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Concordia well sucked the fact that a
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modern cruise ship owned by the largest
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cruise line in the world could have
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something like this happened is
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unfathomable the Costa Concordia was
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only five years old
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it cost 570 million dollars which was
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all put to waste just a few years later
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the disaster in its entirety ended up
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costing around two billion dollars Costa
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has now been building new ships once
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again and in carnival's defense they did
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change CEOs and they have been focusing
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a lot more on building back their safety
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reputation which to be fair I can
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appreciate it really is hard to believe
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though that 100 years after the Titanic
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sank off the coast of a small Italian
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island human error once again brought
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down what we thought was an unsink
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vessel the Costa Concordia anyway guys
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thank you so much for watching my name
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