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July 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“I went up to the bridge. I ordered the navigation to be manual, and I
didn’t have the command. The navigation was being directed by another
officer,” Mr Schettino said.
But data recovered from the black box by forensic investigators showed that
the captain disabled the automatic pilot and took control of the ship at
9.39pm that night – six minutes before the collision at 9.45pm.
He allegedly veered off the ship’s previously agreed route, steering the
Concordia perilously close to Giglio so that he could perform a “salute”
or sail-past for the benefit of a former colleague, a retired sea captain
who lived on the island.
Audio recordings from the black box, leaked to Corriere della Sera on
Wednesday, revealed the panic and drama on the bridge as officers realised
that the giant ship was ramming into the rocky reef, a few yards off
Giglio’s coast.
“Our a— is dragging along the seabed!” an unidentified officer
yelled. He then swore and gave the order for watertight doors in the stern
to be immediately closed.
A few moments later Mr Schettino asked: “What did we hit?” to which
an unidentified officer replied: “The reef.”
Another officer said: “It was the salute that he wanted,” an
apparent reference to the sail-past that the captain had agreed to perform.
At 9.56pm Mr Schettino telephoned Roberto Ferrarini, an officer who was on
duty in the emergency unit of Costa Cruises, the Genoa-based company that
owns the Concordia.
“Roberto, I f—– up!” he said, according to the transcript. “Look,
I’m dying here, don’t tell me anything.”
He tried to shift the blame onto the retired sea captain, Mario Palombo,
saying that it was he who had encouraged him to sail so close to the island.
“It was Palombo who said to me ‘pass close by, pass close by’. I did pass
close by and I hit shallow water with the stern. I did it to keep him happy.
I’m really devastated.”
The ship began to list as it took on massive amounts of water but the captain
still delayed giving the order to evacuate its 4,200 passengers and crew.
He finally gave the order to abandon ship at 10.51pm, by which time it was
redundant – his officers had overridden him and already begun the
evacuation.
The black box data, recovered by a special unit of the Carabinieri, will be
presented to a judge at a hearing in Grosseto on the Italian mainland on
July 21.
The judge will decide whether Mr Schettino should be sent to trial.
Mr Schettino is under investigation for multiple counts of manslaughter,
abandoning the ship before it had been fully evacuated and failing to
communicate properly with the maritime authorities.
In his first full interview since the disaster, Mr Schettino apologised for
his actions and said he was very sorry for those people who died.
But he said it was not only he who should bear responsibility. “This was
a banal accident in which there was a breakdown in the interaction between
human beings and it created misunderstandings and it’s for this that there’s
so much rage,” he told Canale 5 television. “It was as though
there was a blackout in everyone’s heads and in the instruments.”
The Italian press reported that he was paid up to 57,000 euros for the
interview, but the producers of the programme denied that any money changed
hands.
American and Italian salvage experts are in the process of trying to refloat
the Concordia, after which it will be towed to a port and broken up for
scrap.
The salvagers have begun an operation to remove a giant piece of rock that
broke off from the reef and is lodged in the ship’s hull.
It will be cut into three pieces, one of which is likely to be made into a
permanent memorial to those who lost their lives.
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