Cruise ship sinking - Italian coast guard transcript

[armyvern]

:-\

 

[cupper]

Anybody know what the obscenity was that the Official used?

I heard on an NPR report that they were selling T-Shirts in Italy with the quotation on them, but I haven't seen any reprts that actually say (or hint at) what he said. Apparently they are a popular item.

 

[uptheglens]

Anybody know what the obscenity was that the Official used?

I heard on an NPR report that they were selling T-Shirts in Italy with the quotation on them, but I haven't seen any reprts that actually say (or hint at) what he said. Apparently they are a popular item.

"Vada a bordo, cazzo"

Roughly translated, it means "Get back on board, d1ckhead"

 

[armyvern]

Anybody know what the obscenity was that the Official used?

I heard on an NPR report that they were selling T-Shirts in Italy with the quotation on them, but I haven't seen any reprts that actually say (or hint at) what he said. Apparently they are a popular item.

Link to the video at this news story ...

Cruise Ship Quotation Making Big Money

The Costa Concordia cruise ship had struck a coral reef off Italy's coast, but as the disaster was under way, Captain Francesco Schettino ordered dinner less than an hour later, according to a cook. With his cruise ship sinking, the captain wanted food, said a cook from the ship in an interview with a Filipino television station on Thursday. Cook Rogelio Barista told the GMA Network that Schettino ordered the dinner amid the deadly chaos that killed at least 11 people with some 21 still missing.

"We wondered what was going on ... At that time, we really felt something was wrong. ... The stuff in the kitchen was falling off shelves and we realized how grave the situation was," Barista told the network.

The cook said Schettino ordered dinner around 10:30 p.m. Friday, less than an hour after after the ship struck coral reef off the west coast of Italy at 9:42 p.m.

"I have had 12 years of experience as a cook on a cruise ship. ... I have even witnessed fires, so I wasn't that scared," Barista said. "But I did wonder, though, what the captain was doing ... why was he still there."

The ship was operated by Costa Cruises of Genoa and owned by Carnival Corp. It was carrying more than 4,200 passengers on Friday when it struck the reef just off the Tuscan island of Giglio and capsized. Schettino was not authorized to take the ship into dangerous waters so close to the shore. He is under house arrest for his actions and may face charges of manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck.

Schettino is suspected of making an unauthorized detour from the ship's programmed route into the dangerous waters. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported earlier in the week that Schettino may have sailed close to the Tuscan island to delight his head waiter, who is from the island. Others have suggested Schettino may have sailed close to the island to deliver a "foghorn-blasting salute to the local population," according to Fox News.

Schettino's behavior after the wreck has been as curious as the ship's fatal path. A new audiotape was released Thursday detailing the first reported contact between port officials and the Costa Concordia. Schettino was heard on the tape telling port officials the ship only had a blackout more than 30 minutes after it crashed into the coral reef. He apparently neglected to mention that the cruise ship was sinking.

The recording, according to Fox News, was made at 10:12 p.m. Schettino told the port official was he was checking to see why the ship had a blackout. He didn't tell the official that the ship had struck the coral reef, and that it had been involved in a chaotic disaster for more than a half hour. Some 20 minutes after that conversation with the port officials is when the cook says Schettino ordered dinner.

An audio tape released earlier in the week detailed tense conversation between Schettino and a Coast Guard officer responding to the accident after Schettino had abandoned the ship and was in a lifeboat. The Italian Coast Guard officer told Schettino to get back on the ship he had abandoned.

"You go on board! Is that clear? Do you hear me?" the officer shouted to Schettino, who was safe in a lifeboat away from the ship as passengers tried to escape, while others had already perished inside.

"It is an order," the Coast Guard officer shouted. "Don't make any more excuses. You have declared 'abandon ship.' Now I am in charge."

Schettino responded saying the ship was too dark to return to, while also noting the ship was dangerously tipping.

"I am here with the rescue boats," Schettino said. "I am here. I am not going anywhere. I am here to coordinate the rescue."

"What are you coordinating there?" the Coast Guard officer said. "Go on board! Coordinate the rescue from aboard the ship. Are you refusing?"

Said Schettino: "Do you realize it is dark and here we can't see anything?"

Said the Coast Guard officer: "And so what? You want to go home, Schettino? It is dark and you want to go home? Get on that prow of the boat using the pilot ladder and tell me what can be done, how many people there are and what their needs are. Now!

"There are already bodies now, Schettino."

 

[lethalLemon]

:-\

 

[jollyjacktar]

Anybody know what the obscenity was that the Official used?

I heard on an NPR report that they were selling T-Shirts in Italy with the quotation on them, but I haven't seen any reprts that actually say (or hint at) what he said. Apparently they are a popular item.

Would love a shirt myself.  There are plenty I see on eBay.  I'll be getting one.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Anybody know what the obscenity was that the Official used?

I heard on an NPR report that they were selling T-Shirts in Italy with the quotation on them, but I haven't seen any reprts that actually say (or hint at) what he said. Apparently they are a popular item.

According to this recording ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNtayIRcK0
.... the term used by the Coast Guard officer was "cazzo", a term used for the.... shall we say.... "manroot"?  In context, it's like calling someone a dick, but  stronger - closer to the level of calling someone a s**thead.

The term can also used in Italian as an almost-literal translation of d**khead - "testa di cazzo", or in "che cazzo voi?" which roughly translates into "what the f**k do you want?"

I can't really tell if the Coast Guard officer is calling Captain Chicken a cazzo, or is exclaiming "cazzo" the same way someone would say, "get back on the ship (pause) holy f**k".  I leave it to better translators than myself to pick this fly poop out of the ground pepper

 

[PMedMoe]

Interesting read here:  Mark Steyn: No more ‘women and children first'

 

[PMedMoe]

:rofl:

 

[brihard]

Interesting read here:  Mark Steyn: No more ‘women and children first'

I'll see that, and raise some Heinlein.

"All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can — and must — be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly — and no doubt will keep on trying."

- 'Lazarus Long', in 'Time Enough for Love'.

 

[Maxadia]

Same cruise line....

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/19/carnival-ship-sails-past-dying-fishermen-reports

 

[armyvern]

Same cruise line....

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/19/carnival-ship-sails-past-dying-fishermen-reports

Uggghhh. My stomach churned reading that. I will NEVER travel Carnival; never.

 

[jollyjacktar]

I do not believe for one moment that the bridge crew were unaware of the fishing boat.  Bollocks!!!  Someone on the crew of that vessel would have seen them or been told about it from a passenger.  Totally Unsat.  They must have gone to the same school as that Italian loser.  The Captain should have his ticket reviewed and maybe pulled.  I'm sickened at the professionalism displayed by that crew.  :rage:

 

[Canadian.Trucker]

The salvage operation is underway.

"Costa Crociere SpA, the Italian unit of Miami-based Carnival Corp., is picking up the tab for the parbuckling and its intricate preparation. The company puts the costs so far at 600 million euros (US$800 million), though much of that will be passed onto its insurers"

More at link:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/16/were-holding-our-breath-costa-concordia-salvage-underway-as-ship-winched-off-reef-using-6000-tons-of-force/

 

[Colin Parkinson]

live feed on that link, a bit like watching paint drying and now night time.

 

[Haletown]

That press conference was fun to watch.

Journalists tried to do the usual fear mongering/finger pointing schtick and the audience turned on them and gave an ovation to the engineering recovery team.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

This is one hell of an engineering feat. The lessons learned from doing this will be almost worth the cost of the vessel.

 

[FJAG]

This is one hell of an engineering feat. The lessons learned from doing this will be almost worth the cost of the vessel.

Not the first time for this type of process on a large ship.

After the Dec 7 strike at Pearl Harbor the US Navy did some absolutely marvellous work re-floating most of the ships struck. One of those, the battleship USS Oklahoma was righted by a parbuckling system. The Oklahoma was about half the length of the Costa Concordia and about one quarter of her tonnage. Sadly, notwithstanding that she was re-floated, in the end it was decided to decommission Oklahoma.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-ok9.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oklahoma_(BB-37)

:cheers:

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Salvage heyday was the Scapa flow, Normandie and Pearl harbour, amazing work. But they are doing this with a modern design and stiff environmental regs. 

 

[FJAG]

Salvage heyday was the Scapa flow, Normandie and Pearl harbour, amazing work. But they are doing this with a modern design and stiff environmental regs.

No doubt about it. Its fascinating to watch.

If you're interested in the Oklahoma salvage there is an even more detailed paper at http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/631/2/Salvage.pdf

:cheers: