And saved two people from the honeymoon trapped inside more than 24 hours after the attack on a ship that ran aground in the picturesque Italian island, and killed three people and wounded 20 and the displacement of dozens missing.
News agency said passengers from South Korea, I heard the screams of all the applicants, 29 Costa Concordia, Italy's ANSA Sunday early. They were in a hut on the beach and take it. The video being taken to an ambulance.
He said the local prosecutor, was arrested on the ill-fated ship's captain, who gave his team after the grounding, on Saturday night and was under investigation by jumping ship and murder.
Perhaps with the capacity to 50 people missing, divers suspended their efforts in the dark, with plans to resume the search in the blue waters on the island of Giglio in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The accounts of the chaos in many of the passengers reminiscent of 3200 maritime disaster 100 years ago in April - loss of the Titanic RMS.
"For me, the worst part of all the evidence" when he was a member of the lifeboat crew, the prisoners said that "women and children first," said passenger Benji Smith of Boston.
"All these families who cling to each other had to be separated," said Smith, CNN.
ANSA said some passengers fell into the cold water during the rescue operations.
Many questions: Why is a huge ship near the beach? How fast is the move? How well did team respond? According to a large number of passengers, evacuation was disorderly, and did not seem responsible.
"All members of the crew happened shouted instructions, but contradictory instructions," said Smith.
The official said he was interviewed Concorde Captain Francesco Schettino, Saturday morning about what happened when the ship hit the rocks in the shallow waters of the west coast on Friday night in Italy, Emilio del Santo coastal authorities in Livorno. According to local fishermen is known coast of the island Giglio Petrptha rock.
Said Schettino ", which does not indicate the rocks in this letter," according to ANSA. "I and the crew members who were the last to abandon ship," he said.
The vessel was 2.5 km of the road when it hit the rocky shallow water.
"There are rocks on the maps," said Capt. Cosimo Nicastro of the Italian Coast Guard. "What we do know is that the ship was very close to the rocks ... I do not know why."
Nicastro said the boat began taking on water Friday night and went to the team before they believe that the vessel may continue browsing normally. The realization that there is a major security problem, he led the commander of the Costa Concordia towards the port.
The authorities were also looking at why the ship did not ask a distress call in the incident.
"At this stage we can not exclude that the boat was a bit of a technical problem, and go hence to the coast in order to save the passengers and crew and the ship, but they did not send a distress call. The boat got in touch with us once and evacuation procedures are already under way," said Del Santo before the announcement the arrest of the captain.
"These people may still be on the island of Giglio, especially in homes or hospitals," said Orsino and.
Authorities in the port of Livorno, killed two French tourists and a crew of Peru. Officials said one of the victims was a woman from the age of 65 years, who died of a heart attack.
Called Nautilus and staff of international maritime trade of the Union, in an accident "alarm bell" to the organizers.
"Nautilus is about the recent rapid increase in the volume of passenger ships - with the average load has doubled in the past decade," said general secretary Mark Dickinson of Nautilus in a statement. "Many of the small boats to the cities are now effectively in the sea, and a large number of people on board raises serious doubts about the process of evacuation."
Gianni Gianmarco, President of the Genoa-based Costa Cruises, and expressed "deep sorrow for this terrible tragedy" but said that the cruise line can not answer all the questions that are the powers of investigation.
Said Gianmarco ship sailing in the waters of Civitavecchia to Savona, Italy, and struck the rock submerged in a statement before the announcement of the arrest of the captain.
"Schettino said the captain, who was on the bridge at the time, I understood immediately the seriousness of the situation, and made a maneuver designed to protect passengers and crew, and began to prepare security measures for the evacuation of the ship at the end," he continued. "Unfortunately, this process was complicated by the tendency of a sudden the ship, which made it difficult to decline," said Gianmarco.
Rosalyn said Rincon, an employee of the cruise the captain told passengers there was a "problem of electricity."
And less than about 3,200 Concordia passengers and crew when it ran aground in 1000.
"I'm not surprised that (the ship) transforms such a goal," said Neil Gallagher, a professor at the Institute of Naval Architecture Web in Long Island, New York. "It was something to go wrong with the controls or the navigation to get to this condition."
Chris B. He said McKesson, assistant professor of naval architecture at the Faculty of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of New Orleans, "the size of the wound, and said it must have been sailing on the pace is very good."
Fear and panic on board the paralysis
Spread panic and people rushed to find the lifeboats in the darkness of the ship quickly leaned to one side on Friday night. And impeded access to some of the lifeboats of a mile plane in the water.
With the stairs of the sunken ship and Smith and others made rope ladders to climb from fourth in the bombing of the external third. Were rescued after three hours by a lifeboat had returned from leaving passengers stranded.
Smith said that at least three lifeboats, each with a capacity of more than 100 people, apparently does not work well due to a technical error or crew. "People who were guarding the ships and traders only cooks," said Smith.
A leader. Package of a friend, the President of the United States Coast Guard ships to the experience of the National Center for Cruz, said: "When it comes to cruise ships, in a state of emergency managers in the cabin, or others who have the security features," he said.
Coast Guard inspected vessels flying the flag of foreign cruising in U.S. waters twice a year, said a study packet jurisdiction of the crew during the fire and abandon ship.
He asked many of the passengers Why had not yet received a mandatory safety briefing when disaster struck around lunchtime, just a few hours on their journey. Timing of safety briefings and training to collect will depend on the duration of the trip, a huge amount, they said.
Has taken many people who have been rescued in the early hours of the small churches and other buildings around the island in search of refuge. Some of them are still in pajamas and slippers that were in the ship sank.
De Hoop Scheffer said Vivian, a passenger plane in the state of Maryland, CNN announced that there was a preliminary ship began tending. She stated that the others are not able to clearly hear the instructions.
De Hoop Scheffer said on the beach once, and any of the crew helped them. Instead, the residents of the islands.
"There seems to be nobody in charge," he said.
The Costa Cruises, Carnival Corporation-owned parent company, the focus was on the final stages of an emergency operation to help the passengers and crew members at home.
"It's a tragedy that deeply affects our business. We offer condolences go first to the victims, and we would like to express our sympathy and proximity to family and friends," said the line on its website.
The Concordia, built in 2006, on a cruise of the Mediterranean from Rome with stops in Savona, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cagliari and Palermo.
Most of the passengers were Italian. ABC News of America, in Peru, said a group of 32 Peruvians were also on board. State of Brazil, said Brazil's Agencia 53 Brazilians were on the boat trip. It is estimated that 126 Americans were also on board, according to the U.S. State Department. There were no reports of Americans wounded, although the U.S. embassy in Rome said he could not account for all the citizens of the United States believed to be on board the ship at the time of the accident.
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