The captain of the Costa Concordia ensures that the shipping company warned after the impact

The captain of the Cruiser which sank off the Italian coast last Friday, Francesco Schettino, assured that you warned the company Costa Cruises immediately after the impact against the stumbling block, yesterday reported his lawyer, Bruno Leporatti.

In statements to the report of the public radio station RAI, Leporatti reported that Schettino told the shipping company, owner of the "Costa Concordia", after the impact "as it was his duty", but gave no further details on the timetable or content of this conversation.

A circumstance which has never confirmed the Italian shipping company, which also focusing inquiries which is carrying out the prosecution of Grosseto.

According to experts, the black box of the boat, which was recovered after the sinking, also records the conversations that occur on the bridge, so it may be more clearly all phone calls and when it u000aproduced.

On the other hand, Leporatti announced that it will request the release of the Commander of the "Costa Concordia", found on house arrest, on charges of multiple manslaughter and neglect of the nave.

According to Leporatti, the captain has expressed its "readiness to assume their responsibilities" in the case had been wrong, but soon "is you have to check if there have been errors".

Some conversations that have been published in the Italian media reveal that both Schettino as the rest of his subordinates at the port captain's Office hid the magnitude of the incident and were limited to communicate that there had been a blackout that were reported.

Impact with one of the rocks of the so-called "Scole island" occurred at 21: 45 (2045 GMT) local time, because the captain changed the route to get closer to the coast

The first contact with the captaincy of u000aPort occurred half an hour later (21: 15 GMT) and in this, one of the officers spoke only of a blackout.

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