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...Elisa Giangrasso, an Italian coastguard officer, described to gasps from the audience how the vessel set a course to pass close to Giglio, strayed half a mile off course and then ran at speed into a shoal...
...That should help rule out anyone planning a manoeuvre as risky as the one that took Francesco Schettino, the Concordia’s captain, on to the rocks off the island of Giglio on January 13....
...Italian prosecutors so far have focused on Francesco Schettino, captain, and Ciro Ambrosio, first officer....
...He says he saw several officers who did not know how to lower the lifeboats. Witnesses say the first passengers began reaching Giglio by 11pm....
...Newspapers also reported that two other officers were in the same boat....
...Il Secolo XIX, a Genoa newspaper, quoted a witness as saying he saw the captain, another officer and a 25-year-old Moldovan woman drinking a “decanter of wine” in a ship restaurant less than an hour before...
...However, all layers of government, from the centre down to the local council on the island of Giglio, off which the ship sank, will be represented....
...Mr Hunn and senior health and safety executives from each of the lines would review all safety and emergency response policies and procedures, officer and crew training and evaluation, bridge management...
...on to rocks off the island of Giglio....
...While some passengers described helpless Asian crew members, unable to speak English or Italian, throwing themselves overboard – as well as the Italian second officer – others spoke of crew who made desperate...
...Although cruise lines – which pay well compared with other shipping companies – can generally attract high-quality officers, Nautilus, the maritime officers’ union, questioned whether other crew members...
...Italian investigators have so far focused on the roles played by the ship’s officers and have not extended their probe into actions by Costa Cruises or Carnival....
...The huge industrial port of Ponta da Madeira in tropical northern Brazil is far removed geographically and culturally from the picturesque Tuscan island of Giglio....
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