The mystery of the wreck of colossus of the Mediterranean

Cruiser "Costa Concordia", which lies tilted on its right side, as if you were asleep a few meters from the beach, with a bore of 70 meters in the town, is a moving spectacle and a mystery if one takes into account that this is more boat cruise of the world that has wrecked.

El Concord sailed last Friday along a tourist route and hit towards 2145 local time (2045 GMT) against the so-called island of Scole, training Rocky to that comes out of the water visible from the streets of the island of Giglio, whose fishermen take much care of fish these waters.

Divers detected the huge hole in the belly of the Colossus and a huge rock embedded in the hull of the ship, in the part that housed the laundry, the accommodation of crews and a shop.

In the restaurant, the passengers dined when they heard a huge roar and the lights went out by their own accounts, and the u000acrew told them it was a problem of the electric generator, which is why the ship continued sailing embarking large amount of water within minutes, according to the Prosecutor of Grosetto, Francesco Velusio, who investigates the case.

Own Commander, Francesco Schettino, 52-year-old ratified the ship progressed still a hundred meters, and then ordered to head towards the island of Giglio, said Civil protection and the fire.

A few metres from the island, the Cruiser turned half about himself, with the bow in the direction to the island and Colossus of sea leaned over his right as a cetacean giant stranded.

While, prisoners panic passengers tried to flee in the midst of chaotic orders evacuation, power outages, difficult to descend and reach shoved the rescue boats, so many chose to jump into the sea.

According to the Velusio Prosecutor, the impact on the rocks u000aHe was not warned captain and Commander of "Costa Concordia", is arrested accused of multiple manslaughter, shipwreck and abandonment of the ship while passengers had not been evacuated, "approached too the Giglio island".

Maritime, expert cruise sailing out of route that normally ships go 2 or 3 miles from the coast of the island.

Commander defended, however, the Cruiser sailed along the coast through consensual tourist route, when the ship ran into "with a rock not indicated in the nautical chart, that rock did not have that be", said to protection Civil.

But in the captaincy of Giglio a nautical chart attached to the wall shows the existence of the rocks.

"The first impact on the rocks occurred 500 meters away from our shores, while ships typically spend 2 to 3 miles from the coast", says the Mayor of Giglio, Srgio Ortelli.

"Many cruise ships" u000a"they pass before Giglio and greet with the sirens to the inhabitants of the island - added - with all the lights, but this time something went wrong".

A naval officer said that "when navigating along the coast is not used on autopilot, but manual." "It is therefore the Commander decision choose the distance of the navigation from the coast".

Others suggest that after the clash against the mass of rocks, the Commander ordered that continue the navigation even embarking water, and then reversed the route towards the port of Giglio.

The crew probably imagined, initially, be able to manage the evacuation and when it proved impossible, the Commander ordered change of route and head towards the island, they speculate the Expert sailors.

This option of approaching land, according to relief workers, has prevented that the incident had yet more tragic consequences and that the ship sank in the sea.

Rumors and u000aopinions are many, but the solution of the mystery is contained in the black box, which has already been sealed, as well as the ship, which will tell if worked the GPS, if the crew were in their posts, if there was negligence or, as he has said the Prosecutor's Office, if there was a "damn manoeuvre".

Another of the points that are unclear is if the captain was on the bridge as he argues, or having dinner, according to witnesses, and why the boat abandoned at 11.30 hours (22.30 GMT) when the last passengers who were evacuated were wait until three in the morning.

Share this article

Digg it!

del.icio.us

MySpace

Facebook

Fark

Reddit

Newsvine