Costa Concordia (Titanic 2012)

[nigel1]

I like Smit for their 'no nonsense' approach. Their website says it all (www.smit.com); lean and mean.

Thats quite close to describing my salary when I was skipper on Smit Tak Salvage tugs back in the 90's

 

[chewi]

Did anyone else see the silly cross section drawings of the hull on the TV news tonight (BBC 1800 I think)
They had a deep fin keel and V shaped hull form.

 

[MapisM]

I have just seen the transcripts from the bridge voice recorder...

Blimey Lord High Commander, you almost made me wash my keyboard with coffee, in spite of the rather serious subject...
Just curious, how was "loadsa room for this baby" in the original version?

 

[photodog]

molto bene spazio per questo bambino...

 

[stillwaters]

I have just seen the transcripts from the bridge voice recorder...


2144hrs


Voice 1 (First mate)(Original in Italian.).... Looks a bit tight to me...

Voice 2 (Captain).... Are you joking, I got my Sunseeker through there in August... loadsa room for this baby.



Yeah,apparently he was testing Sunseekers new flagship model being specially produced for reality show celebrities and footballers - it's supposedly about 25 metres longer and 10 metres wider than Concordia!

 

[stillwaters]

I know not all of you can read German, but it looks like the captain is in deep trouble.

http://www.stern.de/panorama/unglue...kapitaen-der-alles-falsch-machte-1774432.html

Show boating for the head waiter who lives on the island, apparently the captain called him to the bridge moments before the accident. The waiter then warned him he was to close.

It also seems he spend hours drinking at the bar in the company of a good looking woman.

Just for those not already aware of this you might find,depending on your operating system, by right clicking on this german report,or any other foreign language item for that matter,you get a "translate with bing" prompt (and I thought he only appeared every Christmas,nowadays) which allows you to choose which languages from and to. It was hillarious with Turkish earlier but I've noticed it does actually improve some of the posts,depending on which language you put them into,and certainly some of my own made more sense to me when I did this.

 

[doug748]

Thanks for that stillwaters.

My Livesearch translation from the German gives me:

"...the captain so close had guided the "Costa Concordia" before the island of Giglio: for supposedly he did want to pleasure a maître d ' Hôtel.."

Blinking heck, explains everything.

 

[Erik C]

I could translate the whole article but a little bit of forum experience tells me that would be a bad idea because I would get grilled afterwards. Nitpicking etc. etc.

 

[stillwaters]

Thanks for that stillwaters.

My Livesearch translation from the German gives me:

"...the captain so close had guided the "Costa Concordia" before the island of Giglio: for supposedly he did want to pleasure a maître d ' Hôtel.."

Blinking heck, explains everything.

Bing worked fine for me and not a note out of key. Try putting your translation into something like Turkish then translate it back into English and see if you get even more insight into what the crew were getting up to at the time.

 

[Blueboatman]

My Ouijaboard comes up with ~Manolo the favourite waiter says '' Oh me capitano I am so very happy you invite me an not that spoilt Cianti sloshing fisherwomman up to your bridge.
How mucha closer can we get eh?
Wanna geta the rocks off?

 

[sailorman]

My Ouijaboard comes up with ~Manolo the favourite waiter says '' Oh me capitano I am so very happy you invite me an not that spoilt Cianti sloshing fisherwomman up to your bridge.
How mucha closer can we get eh?
Wanna geta the rocks off?

my mate has managed to find a model of the ship.
he cant collect for a day or to but the nice lady said she would put in to one side for him

 

[Blueboatman]

That the same mate who can nip down there in the motor, dive on it and snatch and all the diesel? Cant post pics cos Im exceeding the speed, but all fine just need a decent rib and a takeaway yeah

 

[[32511]]

Italian sources now say 29 persons still unaccounted for- AP, Rome, 15 minutes ago.
ETA: 25 passengers, 4 crew

 

[sailorman]

Italian sources now say 29 persons still unaccounted for- AP, Rome, 15 minutes ago.

very sad but not surprising, the engine room would not have been a good place to be

 

[photodog]

I heard that they were missing a number of Fillipino kitchen workers...

 

[longjohnsilver]

very sad but not surprising, the engine room would not have been a good place to be

Agreed but only 4 crew and 25 passengers. Not looking good.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Nice pic of a big rock sticking out of the hull here. (about half way down)

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16150027

 

[Capt Popeye]

thank you stillwaters for info on alternative Language selection

great

 

[Blueboatman]

Back to the seriousness of the tragedy:

Having seen these behemoths parked up and absolutely dwarfing tiny Caribbean islands, lights n all at night, any sort of sewage/diesel/incident could pollute the entire local ecosystem,( thus destroying the very beautiful reason why they park there).

Will we now see a 'best practise' policy of keeping a sensible mandatory offing?

And employing pilots or tugs when within say a 1/4mile of the coast?

 

[chewi]

Emergency declared now because of leakage from wreck..
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16150043