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concord got that close to shore. significant because the cruise line has said that the accident friday was because of a route decision the captain and only the captain made. the close call happened last august. this is view from the shore. and even though the cruise line says the ship was a safe distance from the italian s coastline, the world s leading shipping journal says it was dangerously close, closer than it came friday night, in fact, when it actually hit the rocks. in other words, except for sheer luck, the august cruise might just have as easily ended up just like this. this is the satellite imagery new today. you re looking at it basically from space. the sheer scale of it, right up against the coast, takes your breath away, frankly. it s just it s amazing. no less breathtaking, the idea this really was a disaster waiting to happen. that it could have happened back in august. tonight, keeping them honest, we re going to show you why. but today, the very la ....
we have video, this is the video of the incident in august taken from the shore. the cruise line said the ship was a safe distance from the coastline. lloyds lip said it was dangerously close, closer, in fact, than it came on friday night when it hit the rocks. here is new satellite imagery of the wreck. look how big it is against the coast, just a massive, massive ship. the search for nearly two dozen was suspended when the wreckage began shifting. really dangerous for the rescue divers. a dutch salvage team has arrived to offload diesel fuel. also, today, we got our first look at an interview that the concordia captain, schettino, did a day after the grounding. in it, he maintains that the rock he hit was not on the map. i don t know if it was detected or not, but on the nautical chart it was marked just as waiter at some 100 to 150 meters from the rocks, and we were about 300 meters from the shore more or less. we should not have had this contact. there were more t ....
there are two dozen people still missing. that number includes an american couple from minnesota. today a prayer vigil will be held with that couple. the captain is under house arrest. prosecutors are going to appeal that decision that let the captain out of jail. plus, very more tapes between the captain and port authority that are emerging and remember how stunned we were just reading the transcripts yesterday of the audiotapes i think are even worse. it appears to show the captain safe in his life boat while ignoring the orderis to return back to his sanking ship. listen. for our non-italian speaking viewers like myself who are having a hard time. pop that back on the screen. this is basically what we were telling you in the transcript yesterday where he was saying, i understand, listen, because you can hear schettino s voice panicking. i understand there are people coming down the ladder. you must take that ladder the opposite direction. get on board the ship. tell ....
To answer your question, strictly my firm has had many cases against costa cruises both in the united states and in italy. the most important document in this kind of a tragedy is the cruise ticket contract. when you go on a cruise that is a minding contract. here it says you have to sue in genoa italy. even though they are incorporated here, they enforce and require the suit to be brought in italy. gregg: if you file in genoa, italy are there limitations on the amount you can recover if you re injured or killed? sure. unfortunately as to both there are. there is something called the athens convention that the cruise line puts in the ticket contract that basically says that if you get hurt, regardless of how badly you re hurt it limits your damages to $75,000 which is roughly 75,000 which is an extremely limited amount, and in terms of deaths, if you were to file a lawsuit in the united states then you would fall under the death in the high seas act ....
Which is a very harsh remedial statute which limits your damages to the money that you provide to dependent beneficiaries. most cruise passengers are elderly and don t have dependent beneficiaries, and therefore their cases are significantly limited in value under that act. gregg: a lot of the victims and their families would say this is a paltry sum for these valued lives. is there any way to get around the limitation stph-s. limitation? absolutely. good lawyers will work to fight and get around them. because it s buried in the ticket contract it s interesting to note that either the u.s. or italy have ratified that. it becomes an argument of whether or not it was reasonable to have this passenger, this u.s. passenger be subject to this tiny little fine print buried in a contract, and the judge is ultimately the one who tests it for fundamental fairness. i would argue that there is nothing fundamentally fair about ....