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January 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The exchanges between him and port authorities will have been recorded in the
ship’s Voyage Data Recorder, the nautical equivalent of a plane’s black box,
which are being scrutinised by Italian police and prosecutors.
But Mr Foschi contradicted Mr Schettino’s account yesterday, saying the
commander had only contacted the company at 10.05pm – 23 minutes after the
ship smashed into the rocky shoals.
He said the Captain had told the company’s command centre that the ship had
simply suffered an electricity “blackout”, rather than a
catastrophic breach that led to it being grounded on a rocky shelf near
Giglio’s tiny port.
“Personally, I believe he was not honest with us,” said Mr Foschi.
Asked if he thought the captain was drunk or on drugs, he said: “I
believe he was not emotionally balanced. He was seeing his ship sinking in
front of him.” He strenuously denied suggestions that the company had
connived with the captain not to order the ship’s evacuation in order to
avoid a massive compensation payment to passengers.
An Italian shipping lawyer explained: “If the vessel had been abandoned
the captain would have lost command of the ship,” an Italian shipping
lawyer said.
“It would have passed to the captain of the port and the company would
have lost the value of the vessel immediately.”
Mr Foschi said: “I assure you absolutely that no one thought in financial
terms. That would be a choice that would violate our ethics.” Costa
Cruises had only realised the enormity of the situation when the captain
finally gave the order to abandon ship at 10.58pm – 76 minutes after hitting
the rocks, he said.
A source within Costa Cruises told The Daily Telegraph: “What is now
critical to the investigation is that 70 minute period between the collision
and the captain giving the mayday call. The question is, what was the ship
saying to the command centre – was it accurate or misleading?
“The sense within the company is that the command centre was entirely
misled in those early stages. The captain was telling us ‘It’s an electrical
blackout, we’ll get back to you.'”
Mr Schettino is under house arrest at his home in Meta di Sorrento near Naples
and is likely to face charges of abandoning his ship, causing a shipwreck
and multiple counts of manslaughter.
The firm considers itself an injured party in the accident, which industry
experts say could turn out to be the biggest maritime insurance claim in
history.
“This will probably be the largest compensation in the history of
maritime accidents,” said Antonio Coviello, an insurance expert with
Italy’s National Research Council. “Just compensation for passengers
who lost their belongings will be around 30 million euros” (£26
million).
Yesterday new video footage emerged which showed a member of the crew telling
frightened passengers in life jackets that “the situation is under
control”, even as the liner was taking on water.
“We have resolved the problem that we had, and we invite everyone to
return to their cabins,” the crew member says in Italian, in mobile
phone footage taken by a passenger that seemed to confirm the
procrastination and state of denial among the crew.
Meanwhile a remote-controlled submarine robot was yesterday being used to
assess the feasibility of using chains to attach the capsized, 17 storey
ship to its resting place in order to stop it sliding deeper into the sea.
Securing the vessel would allow a Dutch salvage firm, Smit, to start pumping
out the 2,400 tones of heavy oil contained in its fuel tanks.
Rescue operations had to be suspended again because of choppy seas, with
experts saying the giant liner was slipping off a rock shelf at a rate of
about 1.5 cms an hour.
If the ship is dislodged, it could roll down a rocky shelf to a depth of
300ft, possibly rupturing its oil tanks, in what would be a nightmare
scenario for Giglio, surrounding islands and the Tuscan coast.
It could become Italy’s worst maritime disaster since the sinking of the Amoco
Milford Haven, which was carrying 114,000 tonnes of oil, near Genoa in 1991.
It took 17 years to clean up after that accident.
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