Schettino was turned into both a laughingstock and a national embarrassment in Italy after a recording emerged of a coast guard official, Gregorio De Falco, urging him by radio to get back on board to look for passengers. I will create a lot of trouble for you. Get on board, damn it! Schettino later claimed he slipped and fell into the lifeboat. His request was denied. Proof of that malfunction was destroyed, he said, when the ship was raised, towed to Genoa in Italy and scrapped.
Schettino was absent during the supreme court hearings, following memorable appearances at his initial trial, where he broke down in tears while addressing judges.
As always happens in Italy, we need scapegoats. But Michelina Suriano, a lawyer representing the victims, said she was grateful that the long appeals process had come to an end. Globalization 2. Column: Can Biden and Xi talk their way out of a slide into conflict?
Schettino said that before approaching this area, he had turned off the alarm system for the navigational systems. I had done the move three, four times. When Schettino saw waves breaking on the reef, he turned abruptly and swung the side of the ship into the reef. When the ship first hit, Costa Cruises told passengers it was an electrical failure and would be soon fixed. Guests were told to go back to their cabins. There are a number of theories as to why the Captain of the Costa Concordia hit the reef and sank the ship.
The most likely reason is that Schettino was negligent and took too many risks. Another theory is that Schettino was distracted by a lady he had brought onboard the ship. Schettino did have a wife and daughter who were not on the cruise.
Some accounts have reported that Schettinos hair showed trace amounts of cocaine and that there was a considerable amount of cocaine on the ship as it capsized. The ship hit the reef at and authorities were not alerted to the problem until despite port officials asking the Costa Concordia if there was a problem on board.
Schettino insisted the ship was just suffering from a blackout. Meaning that the captain should make sure that everybody else is off the ship before they disembark. Now you go to the bow, you climb up the emergency ladder and coordinate the evacuation.
Are you abandoning the rescue? Evacuation was made even more chaotic by the ship listing so far to starboard, making walking inside very difficult and lowering the lifeboats on one side, near to impossible.
Making things worse, the crew had dropped the anchor incorrectly, causing the ship to flop over even more dramatically. Through the confusion, the captain somehow made it into a lifeboat before everyone else had made it off.
Schettino argued that he fell into a lifeboat because of how the ship was listing to one side, but this argument proved unconvincing. In , a court found Schettino guilty of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship before passengers and crew were evacuated and lying to authorities about the disaster.
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