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January 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“Passengers might have been invited on board by a crew member at the last
minute,” said Francesca Maffini, Mr Gabrielli’s spokesman.
Sources said that a second possibility was that someone could have turned up
at the last minute and been registered in the correct manner, but the
information might not have been relayed to Costa Cruises in Genoa by the
time the ship smashed into rocks just two hours after its departure. That
possibility was denied by Genoa-based Costa Cruises.
Davide Barbano, a spokesman, said all passengers would have been registered
and photographed on boarding the vessel when it left the port of
Civitavecchia, north of Rome, at the start of what was meant to be a
week-long Mediterranean cruise.
Another possibility is that some crew members were not registered properly
because they were working on the ship illegally. Many of the crew were from
India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Shipping experts said that was unlikely however, because security checks had
been significantly tightened in the wake of anti-terrorism legislation
introduced in 2003, known as the International Ship and Port Facility
Security Code.
“It is extremely unusual in this day and age in the Mediterranean to have
an unregistered worker. If it is proved to be the case it will raise very,
very serious questions about management practice. That would put the
shipping industry in a very bad light,” said Capt Syamantak
Bhattacharya, a maritime academic based at the University of Plymouth.
The suggestion that people could have been smuggled on board mystified Phil
Davies, a cruise expert.
“Manifests are put together well in advance of the voyage, detailing the
number of passengers and crew.
“It would by highly unusual for someone to be on board without the
company knowing who they were.
“Passengers have a card which doubles up as a key for the cabin and also
acts as security for getting on and off the ship. You need to have the card
with you.
“Also as soon as you get on board they will take your photo. There are
two gangways, you cannot just sneak somebody on board. The other thing is
that cruise ships are a cashless society, everything is charged to the card.
The whole thing is a mystery to me.”
The bodies which have not yet been identified could eventually tally with
people on the missing list.
Of the 13 confirmed dead, eight have been identified, but the remaining five
are badly decomposed because they were in the sea for several days. Mr
Gabrielli said that one of the bodies could be that of the Hungarian woman.
Both Costa Cruises and its parent company, US-based Carnival, are members of
the Cruise Lines International Association, the industry body which sets
safety and security rules.
This means there should be “100 per cent screening” of passengers,
crew and luggage. Security checkpoints are also required for all passengers
on embarking and disembarking.
Each cruise ship has a dedicated security officer and staff whose sole
function is the security of its passenger and crew.”
Mr Gabrielli said he had requested medical opinion on how long passengers or
crew might be able to survive in the freezing cold conditions on board the
17-deck ship, which is half-submerged in shallow water off Giglio’s coast,
close to its tiny harbour.
He was given overall command on Friday of the multiple emergency services
involved in the search and salvage operation, including civilian salvage
experts from the Netherlands, police and Carabinieri, the Italian navy and
the coast guard.
He has asked experts to determine whether it might be possible to carry out
the search operation and the fuel removal at the same time.
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