dinner. i remember taking my first bite of the ap tires. that s when i heard the first crash like a wine glass had hit the ground. then you heard more and more stuff hitting the ground. brian his wife joan and daughter alanna described the chaos in what had been the elegant dining room. people were falling waiters were tripping glasses were breaking. people were screaming. the vessel was mortally wounded. the hull gougeed by a gigantic rock. to find out what it must have been right we got access to a ship simulator outside baltimore maryland. eric is the director of training. i am getting too close i am hard star bird. i feel the vessel lifting a little bit. beginning to lift a bit. we are keeling over now. we have hit bottom. what has happened? we are actually running up on
human error here the captain did not follow the (indiscernible) this is the course taken by the doomed advisvessel. he made a sweeping left turn. a dramatic deviation of the scheduled course. captain peter ve ceo of the maritime college. as you and i look at this, it is obvious the land is there and the rocks are there how you come that close you take that particular risk in bringing that vessel to that point inexcusable. now the prep pos truss claim he grounded his ship on an unchartered rock. i don t know if it was detected or not but on the nautical chart it was marked just as water at some 100 to 150 meters from the rocks. we were about 300 meters from the shore more or less. we shouldn t have had this
mid 50s. passengers jump in to swim the 150 yards to shore. some are seriously hurt. a few don t make it. incredibly amid all of the danger and panic it is not until 10:20 p.m., 10 minutes after announcing abandon ship the vessel finally signals the alarm to the coast guard. that begins an epic rescue and recovery operation that is not over yet. helicopters arrive to lift people out of the water and off the ship. private boats, too. among the earliest to reach safety a man who s duty was to remain on boyered. concordia s captain fran chess co. his sad story next. shocking tapes and the story behind them. was the concordia captain a coward or something else? why are some people calling him a hero? is this and more just moments away.
dinner. i remember taking my first bite of the ap tires. that s when i heard the first crash like a wine glass had hit the ground. then you heard more and more stuff hitting the ground. brian his wife joan and daughter alanna described the chaos in what had been the elegant dining room. people were falling waiters were tripping glasses were breaking. people were screaming. the vessel was mortally wounded. the hull gougeed by a gigantic rock. to find out what it must have been right we got access to a ship simulator outside baltimore maryland. eric is the director of training. i am getting too close i am hard star bird. i feel the vessel lifting a little bit. beginning to lift a bit. we are keeling over now. we have hit bottom. what has happened? we are actually running up on
carrier. she is longer than 3 football fields and a football field was one of the few amenities not on board. concordia was the stuff of dreams for vacationers from around the world. the 65,000 square foot fitness sinter 5 jacuzzis, 5 restaurants, 13 bars, a casino, a disco deck, a multi level theater and more than 1500 cabins of various shapes and sizes. if you look at the recent advertising of the cruise line they have nothing to do with the boats any more. travel writer pauline promer. they don t want the element of boat to come into it the fact that you are out in the middle of the ocean on a vessel surrounded by boughtwater. the ship was krisened concordia which is italian for harmony in this case between nations. over 35 nations were represented among the passengers. 1,000 plus crew members on board last week.