Cruise disaster: quest for his violin cost ship’s entertainer his life

Divers have found the spot where the $450 million cruise liner struck rocks,
after the captain steered it too close to shore. After impact, the captain
swung the ship around and grounded it on rocks near Giglio’s harbour.

Satellite tracking information showed that the ship sailed even closer to
Giglio’s rocky shore last summer. Lloyd’s List told the BBC that the ship
passed within 750ft of the island on Aug 14. Richard Meade, the editor of
Lloyd’s List, said: “The company’s account of what happened, of the rogue
master taking a bad decision, isn’t quite as black and white as they
presented originally. This ship took a very similar route only a few months
previously and the master would have known that.”

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