Recording of a radio conversation between
Francesco Schettino, captain of Concordia, and
Gregorio de Falco of the Italian coastguard .
The most shameful Captain
of all times what did he do after
the Cruise Ship ran aground
with 4.229 passengers onboard ?
Saturday morning (24h later) one day after the boat
had run aground.
Ansa news agency reports that a taxi driver
says he took the captain to a hotel on
Saturday morning,after the ship had crashed,
the captain had asked only where he could
buy some socks.
"He looked like a beaten dog, cold and
scared," the taxi driver said…
(See link below )
Thats naturally nothing compared to the people
men women and children he left behind to die
and to swim in icy waters .
See the timeline below and wonder what the Captain
did same day as the tragedy took place
on land first returning to sea next day and then
as following:
Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has posted
a recording of a radio conversation on the day of
the Costa Concordia disaster
between Francesco Schettino, captain of the
stricken ship, and Gregorio de Falco of the
Italian coastguard in Livorno.
It reveals how Mr De Falco repeatedly asked
Capt Schettino to return to the ship.
(Translation into English by the BBC)
Gregorio De Falco: "Hello. Hello."
Francesco Schettino: "Good evening, captain."
De Falco: "Hello, I'm de Falco, from Livorno.
I am speaking with the commander?"
Schettino: "I'm Commander Schettino."
De Falco: "Listen Schettino, there are people trapped
aboard, you go with your lifeboat under the prow of the
ship on the port side and you go aboard the ship using
the rope ladder. You go aboard and you tell me how
many people there are. Is it clear? I'm recording this
conversation, Commander Schettino."
Schettino: "So, I'll tell you something..."
De Falco: "Speak louder."
Schettino: "Now, I'm in front of..."
De Falco: "Commander, speak louder, take the
microphone and speak loud. Is that clear?"
Schettino: "Commander, right now the ship is skewed."
De Falco: "Understood. Listen there are people
going down from the prow using the rope ladder;
you take that rope ladder on the opposite side,
you go aboard and you tell me the number of
people and what they have on board. Is that clear?
You tell me whether there are children, women
or people needing assistance. And you tell me the
number of each of these categories. Is that clear?
Schettino, maybe you saved yourself from the sea,
but I'll make you pay for sure. Go aboard."
Schettino: "Commander, please?"
De Falco: "Please, now you go aboard."
Schettino: "I am on the life boat, under the ship, I
haven't gone anywhere, I'm here."
De Falco: "What are you doing, commander?"
Schettino: "I'm here to coordinate rescues."
De Falco: "What are you coordinating there? Go on
board and coordinate rescues from on board.
Do you refuse?"
Schettino: "No, no I'm not refusing."
De Falco: "You're refusing to go aboard,
commander, tell me why you're not going."
Schettino: "I'm not going because there is another
lifeboat stopped there."
De Falco: "Go aboard: it's an order. You have no
evaluation to make, you declared abandon ship,
now I give orders: go aboard. Is it clear?"
Schettino: "Commander I'm going aboard."
De Falco: "Call me from aboard, my rescuer is
there at the prow of the ship. There are already
dead bodies, Schettino."
Schettino: "How many dead bodies?"
De Falco: "I do not know. One for sure. You have
to tell me how many."
Schettino: "Do you realise that it's dark here and
we can't see a thing?"
De Falco: "And what, do you want to go
home, Schettino?
It's dark, so you want to go home...?
Go on the prow of the ship, using the rope ladder
and tell me what can be done, how many people
there are and what are their needs. Do it now."
Schettino: "Here there is also the vice commander.
I'm together with him."
De Falco: "Then go aboard together. Together.
What's his name?"
Schettino: "Dimitri."
De Falco: "Dimitri what? You and your vice go aboard.
Now, is it clear?"
Schettino: "Commander, I want to go aboard, but
here there is the other lifeboat, there are other rescuers
who stopped. Now I called other rescuers."
De Falco: "You've been telling me this for one hour.
Go aboard. Go aboard. And you tell me right away how
many people there are."
Schettino: "Ok commander."
De Falco: "Go, quickly."
The captain appears to refuse, replying first
that there are rescuers already on board, and
then that it is dark and difficult to see.
Coastguards believe he never went back to
the ship !
He was arrested on the island shortly afterwards.
The captain is under house arrest on suspicion
of multiple manslaughter. Prosecutors have also
accused him of fleeing the ship before evacuation
was complete.
Timeline of Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia disaster
SHAME on the coward !
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