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January 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “I’m going to stay here,” he replied, sounding out of breath and under stress.
The coast guard asked again: “So only you are going to stay there?”
The captain replied: “I’m the only one who will stay here.”
The officer replied: “Va benissimo, comandante – very good, captain. Continue
with the evacuation and we’ll speak later. Keep your mobile with you at all
times.”
Prosecutors are likely to use the tape to back up their contention that Capt
Schettino lied to port authorities on the night of the disaster, January 13,
and that he abandoned his post in contravention of the naval code.
When coast guard officials realised he was in a lifeboat, they ordered him to
return to the ship immediately, in furious audio exchanges which were
released during the week.
But his lawyers could argue that the tape shows that the captain had every
intention of staying on the ship, before he accidentally “tripped” and fell
into a lifeboat, which took him to shore.
When he was interviewed by investigators in Grosseto, in Tuscany, he
reportedly told them: “I messed up, I passed too close to Giglio.”
He told an investigating judge that as soon as he saw the rocks outlined by
breaking waves, he turned the rudder hard, stopped the engines and then put
them into reverse.
But it was too late – the 1,000ft long ship smashed into the rocks and ripped
a jagged gash in its hull.
He said that he immediately informed Costa Cruises, the company that owns the
ship, of the accident, in calls to the director of operations Roberto
Ferrarini.
“I told him, ‘I’ve got myself into a mess, there was a contact with the
seabed. I am telling you the truth, we passed by Giglio and there was an
impact.’
“I can’t remember how many times I called him in the following hour and
15 minutes. In any case, I am certain that I informed Ferrarini about
everything in real time,” he said, adding he had asked the company to
send tug boats and helicopters.
Pier Luigi Foschi, the chief executive of Costa Cruises, claims that Capt
Schettino delayed issuing an SOS and evacuation orders and gave misleading
information to the company’s command centre.
Questions are being asked in Italy as to why salvage workers have not been
authorised to start pumping out the 2,400 tonnes of heavy oil and diesel in
the vessel’s tanks, more than a week after the disaster.
There are fears that if the ship is dislodged from its position by heavy seas,
the tanks could rupture, spilling oil into Giglio’s crystal clear waters and
rocky bays.
Prosecutors, who accuse Capt Francesco Schettino of abandoning his ship and
causing a shipwreck, specifically asked the navy and coast guard frogmen who
are searching the wreck to find the safe in the captain’s cabin.
They believe it may contain documents or other evidence which could help their
investigation.
Divers also recovered a hard disk from the ship which contains footage from
the ship’s on-board cameras.
It could answer the mystery of whether Domnica Cemortan, a young Moldovan
woman and former cruise ship dancer, was on the bridge with the captain on
the night of the disaster.
But Franco Gabrielli, a senior Italian official who took over the
co-ordination of the search and salvage operation on Saturday, said that
looking for survivors and recovering bodies was still a top priority.
The body of a 12th victim, a woman, was found inside the hull of the 1,000ft
long vessel. She was found wearing a life jacket on the fourth desk, close
to a muster station.
Mr Gabrielli said that an enormous amount of work had already been done, and
he was still trying to ascertain whether it would be feasible to continue
search efforts at the same time as extracting the fuel.
He said it was taking navy and coast guard divers 45 minutes to search each of
the ship’s 1,500 cabins.
“You can imagine how complex it is – you can’t just go and knock on cabin
doors. There’s the danger that objects can be dislodged and fall on the
divers.”
Rescuers are instead using miniature cameras to investigate the cabins before
entering them.
Mr Gabrielli, the head of the Civil Protection Authority, was appointed to the
co-ordinating role after the Italian government officially declared the
capsizing of the Concordia a state of emergency on Friday.
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