The ship wrecked approached much the coast to pay homage to an employee, according to press

The "Costa Concordia", the Cruiser wrecked in the Tyrrhenian Sea, both approached the island of Giglio to make "a bow", a gift to his Chief of waiters, natural, and to an excomandante of the Costa cruise shipping, say today newspaper "Corriere della Sera" and "Il Tirreno".

The Commander of the "Costa Concordia", the largest Italian Cruiser, Francesco Schettino, detained by the wreck, which has claimed so far six lives, had decided to give a surprise to the head of waiters, Antonello Tievoli, and excomandante Mario Palombo, a legend among the commanders of the Genoese shipping company.

"Come see, Antonello, are on your Giglio", says "Corriere della Sera" said the Commander to the Chief of waiters, who thought that it was a joke of Schettino, since I should have rested last week but could not and still continued working on the boat.

Tievoli, adds the Milanese newspaper, said the inhabitants of Giglio u000ahelped it when in the water: "never would have guessed that you were in my house" and since then does not want to talk to anyone that it torments you in sense of guilt by a tragedy which has become protagonist unwittingly.

In the Italian seaside jargon "inchino", "reverence", is the approach to a place to honor, to make a gift, a member of the crew.

According to the newspaper "Il Tirreno" in Livorno (Tuscany), Antonello Tievoli who works for five years on the cruise ship, called even parents who live on the island to see firsthand pass close to the ship, a colossus of sea of 114,000 tonnes, 291 m long, 62 in height, eleven bridges and accommodating up to 3,780 passengers.

The ship, which had departed from Civitavecchia, 70 kilometers north of Rome, crashed into rocks of 20 m, causing a hole in the hull of 70 meters in length.

According to the Commander, the rocks were not in the u000anautical charts that wore

The ship was sailing about 150 meters from the coast of Giglio, according to the first research.

Newspapers say that this closeness was not for the tourists enjoy the views of the night on the island, with the lights of the houses burning, that emphasize, travellers were not advised by the megaphone of the ship of such a possibility or time some noted that they flowed through Giglio.

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