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January 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“It was the most horrible experience of my life. A tragedy, a heartache that I
will carry with me forever.”
Mr Schettino, has reportedly said the reason he was in a lifeboat while
thousands of panic-stricken passengers and crew were trying to evacuate was
because he “tripped” and fell into the rescue craft.
Captain Bosio was not working on the Costa Concordia but had boarded the ship
to get to his home town of Savona, near Genoa.
He is understood to have coordinated the entire rescue effort, working
alongside crew members throughout the night, helping women and children into
lifeboats.
He is the captain of one of the Concordia’s sister ships, the Serena.
His actions appear to be in stark contrast to those of Mr Schettino, who
allegedly had a meal with a female friend after the ship’s collision,
leaving 4,200 panicking passengers and crew to fend for themselves.
Captain Bosio added: “We managed to avoid the worse and have the world crash
down around us. I just want to rest and forget.
“Don’t call me a hero. I just did my duty, the duty of a sea captain –
actually the duty of a normal man.
“I and the others with me just did our duty. We looked each other in the eyes
for a second and then we Just got on with it.”
Transcripts from the ship’s black box suggest that Schettino wasted valuable
minutes before raising the alarm.
By the time he did so, terrified passengers had already called the coastguard,
warning them of the catastrophic collision.
It was left to junior officers to help lead passengers to safety, allegedly
lowering lifeboats into the water before the official order was given.
At 9.49pm on Friday, less than 10 minutes after the accident, Schettino was
asked over the ship radio by the Livorno harbourmaster: “Concordia, is
everything OK?” The response from the ship was “positive”. But five minutes
later the liner was contacted again after a passenger allegedly reported a
problem and mentioned the word “shipwreck”.
The inquirer was reportedly told: “It is just a technical problem.”
Officers have complained that, rather than taking decisive control of the
situation, Schettino spent the hour after the collision on his mobile phone.
Eventually, Capt Bosio began to evacuate the ship, at 10.45pm, some 13 minutes
before Schettino gave the abandon-ship instruction.
A further damning conversation took place between Schettino and coastguard
official Gregorio De Falco at 12.42am, two hours before the majority of the
ship’s passengers and crew were evacuated.
Mr De Falco’s mounting anger and frustration with Schettino has seen him too
hailed a hero.
He repeatedly asked the commander what on earth he was doing by jumping into a
life boat before his 4,200 passengers and crew had been evacuated and
ordered him to return to the stricken ship.
Mr De Falco wept with anger and frustration at the loss of life from the
tragedy.
The captain broke down in tears when he realised in the early hours of
Saturday morning that people had died in the accident.
“I cried, and I don’t believe that is a sign of weakness. To be human is
not a weakness,” he told La Repubblica newspaper.
Commander De Falco, the head of the port authority in Livorno, on the Italian
mainland, insisted that he was no hero – he had simply done his duty by
repeatedly ordering Capt Schettino to get out of a lifeboat and take control
of the evacuation of 4,200 crew and passengers from the cruise liner. The
captain appears not to have obeyed the order and a short time afterwards
went ashore, leaving passengers and crew to fend for themselves.
The heated exchanges were “an epic metaphor of the struggle between
heroism and cowardice” one newspaper said.
Commander De Falco, who was born in Naples and grew up on the island of Ischia
near Naples, said the “true heroes” in the saga were the hundreds
of personnel from the Coast Guard, navy, Carabinieri and fire service who
were rushed to the island of Giglio to help deal with the emergency.
He singled out the helicopter crews who rescued dozens of people from the
crippled ship.
Mr Schettino told investigating magistrates in Grosseto, on the Italian
mainland, that he ended up in the lifeboat by accident.
During three hours of interrogation on Tuesday, he reportedly said: “The
passengers were pouring onto the decks, taking the lifeboats by assault. I
didn’t even have a life jacket because I had given it to one of the
passengers. I was trying to get people to get into the boats in an orderly
fashion. Suddenly, since the ship was at a 60 to 70 degree angle, I tripped
and I ended up in one of the boats. That’s how I found myself there.”
He said he got stuck in the lifeboat for an hour before it was lowered into
the water off the coast of Giglio island.
Also with him was Dimitri Christidis, the Greek second in command of the
Concordia and Silvia Coronica, the third officer, according to La Repubblica
newspaper.
“Suspended there, I was unable to lower the boat into the sea, because the
space was blocked by other boats in the water.
The captain confirmed that he took the cruise liner close to Giglio’s rocky
coast in order to give a ‘salute’ to an old colleague, a former Costa
Cruises captain named Mario Palombo.
“It’s true that the salute was for Commodore Mario Palombo, with whom I was on
the telephone. The route was decided as we left Civitavecchia but I made a
mistake on the approach. I was navigating by sight because I knew the depths
well and I had done this manoeuvre three or four times. But this time I
ordered the turn too late and I ended up in water that was too shallow.
“I don’t know why it happened, I was a victim of my instincts.”
Once he had reached dry land and was allowed to leave the harbour master’s
office, Schettino’s primary concern was to buy some socks.
Ottavio Brizzi, a taxi driver on the island of Giglio, said he picked him up
at 11.30am on Saturday and took him the 400 yards to the Bahamas Hotel.
“It was a very short journey, no more than 30 seconds if that,” he
said. “He didn’t say very much apart from asking me where he could buy
some dry socks. He looked very cold and scared – he looked like a beaten dog.”
Mr Schettino has been accused by one of the officers on board the Costa
Concordia of skippering the ship “like a Ferrari” driver.
“If I had to make a comparison, we got the impression that he would drive
a bus like a Ferrari,” Martino Pellegrino told Italy’s
La Repubblica newspaper.
Salvage work was expected to begin on the ship later on Wednesday, as hopes
faded that any more survivors would be rescued. The search was suspended
early on Wednesday morning after the ship shifted on the rock. 24 people
remain missing, while 11 people have so far been found dead.
Mr Pellegrino said Capt Schettino was an “authoritarian” who was
often “inflexible” in the way he commanded the giant liner as it
cruised the Mediterranean.
Mario Palombo, a former Costa commander and colleague of the captain, said: “I’ve
always had my reservations about Schettino. It’s true, he was my second in
command, but he was too exuberant. A daredevil. More than once I had to put
him in his place.”
It was reported that a month ago the captain insisted on setting sail from
Marseilles in 60 knot winds, despite the reservations of his officers.
But other colleagues came to his defence. Michele Miccio, another officer on
the ship, said Capt Schettino had forged “a brilliant career” with
Costa Cruises.
The captain’s sister, Giulia Schettino, said he had been unfairly subjected to “mud-slinging”
and said the accusations against him had not yet been proved.
“My brother will demonstrate that he had no responsibility for what
happened,” she said.
Italians have been transfixed by the release of dramatic audio tapes in which
furious Coast Guard officials questioned why he was in a lifeboat rather
than commanding the evacuation of 4,200 passengers and crew once it ran
aground.
At one point a Coast Guard official, Gregorio De Falco, told him: “Get
the —- back on board.” The phrase has been seized on by Italians on
Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites and has been printed on
T-shirts.
Capt Schettino arrived at his home near Sorrento, south of Naples, in the
early hours of Wednesday, having been released from prison and placed under
house arrest by an investigating judge.
He had been held in custody in prison in Grosseto, in Tuscany, since being
arrested on Saturday, hours after the giant cruise ship ran aground on
Giglio.
A judge, Valeria Montesarchio, ruled that he should be allowed to remain under
house arrest as he awaits trial on accusations of multiple manslaughter and
abandoning ship.
The 52-year-old captain denied the allegations through his lawyer.
“The captain defended his role on the direction of the ship after the
collision, which in the captain’s opinion saved hundreds if not thousands of
lives,” Bruno Leporatti said. “The captain specified that he did
not abandon ship.”
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