His greatest shock was when the third floor was flooded

"Was a gift that turned into a hell". With this sentence begins the Dominican Ramón Escalante Florentino to narrate the distressing moments lived during the sinking of the Cruiser "Costa Concordia" front of the Italian island of Giglio, which survived along with his partner, Vanessa Darisa González.

"We have six years of relationship and I promised him a cruise so knew Rome and the Vatican." "Us them we were going great, but everything went to hell," said Escalante Florentino to recount the dramatic experience of the wreck to LISTÍN DIARIO.

Escalante has to be 9: 00 pm and was served dinner on the boat when they heard a loud explosion that made flying a waiter tray dishes while the bottles of wine and cups fell to the floor.

Fear seized all passengers, but they returned to calm when the captain asked them not to worry because "all" u000a"under control", after explaining that the ship had suffered a small fault in your engine.

"It took 15 minutes, but the boat was leaning more and more, while the crew and the waiters were running around the boat with posts life jackets, while we were all on the table when in theory we should be the first to be protected," said.

After assumed it was something wrong, Ramon asked Darisa qualifying him to the cabin that was located in the plant number 9 of the vessel, which was already tilted adrift. The pair climbed six floors separating his room restaurant "as it is climbing a tree".

Once sleeper only atinaron to put the vest and a few tennis, because posts high heels feast wore. It was then when sounded the warning that they would be evacuated because the ship sank. When arrived to the point of the evacuation were u000athey found more than four thousand people in row despair gripped passengers. "Around the world by pulling over others, the mothers threw children so that they involved in the boat". Escalante recalls that some mothers said "go son mine which I prefer to die me so you save you".

Said that it was a fatal cruise for many people, including his waiter personnel, who said drowned as the person who the guided.

MarÍa Escalante
sister of Ramón Escalante, resident in the Alma Rosa II sector, says that his brother is alive by the prayers.

Juan González
Communicator puertoplateño, progenitor of Vanessa Darisa, thanks to God that his daughter has survived the wreck.

Vanessa DARISA account his experience the Dominican Vanessa Darisa González
, marine biologist, who has 10 years residing in the Principality of Andorra, u000awhere he works for a clinical laboratory, you will not forget his holiday aboard the Cruiser "Costa Concordia".
Following the dramatic experience, the survivor of origin puertoplateño expressed that it will be the last time to make a cruise.

Said that he saw twice the movie "Titanic" and that "the only difference is that this story were living it us, but was exactly the same." The chaos that had people crying."

You are cannot imagine the shock that we come", said González.
He assured that the boat worked nine Dominicans, including six waiters who attended him prior to the wreck. "These six luckily I saw then in port and they were fine," she said Dominican.

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