Late Friday night, January 13, disaster struck off the coast of the tiny island of Giglio near Tuscany in a scene reminiscent of Titanic after the Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed in to the island late Friday night. Almost two days later, 17 passengers are still unaccounted for, and three of the 4,000 passengers have been declared dead. The Daily Beast has more on the horrific tragedy:
DETAILS: WE PRAY! Italian Cruise Ship Suffers Titanic-Like Crash!
The giant carcass of the Costa Concordia lies like a beached whale 200 meters off the shoreline of Giglio, a tiny tourist island off Italy’s Tuscan coast. Red curtains flutter in the broken cabin windows and champagne bottles and life jackets bob in the calm sea nearby. Of the more than 4,000 passengers and crew, three are confirmed dead and 17 remain unaccounted for after several passengers identified themselves, including four Japanese tourists who came forward to authorities in Rome. Divers from the Italian Coast Guard searched in vain on Saturday, fearing that some passengers may have been crushed between the rocks and the 115,000-ton luxury cruiser as they tried to escape.
Other rescue workers hit the jackpot early Sunday morning—they found a couple from South Korea who had been trapped in their above-water cabin. The passengers’ door had jammed in the accident and they had been crying for help in the dark. Their cabin was just a few meters above water level, and they could hear helicopters above and workers banging on the metal hull below. Rescue workers spent 90 minutes trying to free the couple, who were then taken to a local hospital. They were on their honeymoon; it was their first cruise. “We could hear the rescuers’ noises,” the man, whose name has not been released, told reporters on the shore. “We were waiting for someone to rescue us.”
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SOURCE: [Daily Beast]
