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Monday, January 16, 2012

Ship Owner: 'Significant Human Error' By Captain Likely


The owner of the capsized Italian cruise ship issued a statement Sunday saying it appears the ship's captain was at fault. in the tragedy that has claimed at least five lives. Fifteen more people, including two Americans, are still missing.  
"While the investigation is ongoing, preliminary indications are that there may have been significant human error on the part of the ship's master, Captain Francesco Schettino, which resulted in these grave consequences," Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Carnival Corp., stated. "The route of the vessel appears to have been too close to the shore, and in handling the emergency the captain appears not to have followed standard Costa procedures."

3 comments:

Geroge said...

This was Carnivals "Titanic rememberance cruise" they had advertised.

Anonymous said...

Being six people have died so far attempts at humor is not appropriate.

Anonymous said...

Whoops did I do that!!!