View of the stricken cruise ship which ran aground and capsized near the island of Giglio in Italy on 13 January. The image was taken on 17 January. (via BBC News - Costa Concordia: Satellite image)
Night vision footage shows Costa Concordia evacuation from the air (by telegraphtv via nytimes)
The video show[s] passengers clinging to the sideways ship. Some groups appeared to be part of an organized evacuation, and others were on their own.
Wow, that’s pretty crazy.
I feel a little bad saying this, but these transcripts of the recordings between the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship and the Livorno Port Authority are awesome. Click the link for more transcripts.
Italian Coast Guard Capt. Gregorio De Falco: ”Captain. This is De Falco from Livorno.”
Schettino: ”Commandant, I’ve also alerted the company… I’m being told that there are still passengers on board, apparently they are about one hundred… but I repeat…”
De Falco: ”Captain. You are not able to tell me an exact figure? About a hundred people, it seems?
Schettino: ”Commandant, I am not able to give you an exact figure because let me explain… while we were evacuating the last passengers… now we are all here with all the officers…”
De Falco: ”Where are you? On the lifeboats? All the officers?”
Schettino: ”Yes, we are with the second commander…”
De Falco: ”Forgive me, but before you were only with a sailor. If the officers managed to get down, it means that they could still move.”
Schettino: ”Yes…in fact…
De Falco: ”Then why don’t they get back on board? To monitor the operation and then they can tell us. Thank you.”
Schettino: ”No it is not possible…”
De Falco: “Send them on board. Send one person on board to coordinate…”
Schettino: ”But I am doing the coordination.”
De Falco: ”I’m giving you an order captain. You need to send someone on board.”
Schettino: ”We are going on board to coordinate.”
De Falco: ”Exactly. You need to get on board to coordinate the evacuation. Is that clear?!”
Schettino: ”But we can’t get on board now…the ship is now…(hard to understand)…”
De Falco: ”Why did you tell them to get down?”
Schettino: ”What do you mean get down? We abandoned the ship…the ship turned …”
De Falco: ”…and with one hundred people on board you abandon the ship? (expletive)”
Schettino: ”I did not abandon any ship with 100 people…the ship (hard to understand)…we were catapulted into the water…”
De Falco: We’ll see later what happened. OK? Now tell me everything that takes place. Everything. Get under with the lifeboat (not very clear at this point). Don’t move. Clear?”
Schettino: ”Commandant..we are here…we are here…”
OMG! Adorbz of the Day: I’m finding it hard to appreciate the adorableness of this video of twin babies making fun of their daddy’s sneeze when all I can think about is choking hazard CHOKING HAZARD.
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Sibling Revelry of the Day: YouTuber danamal55 says: “My little brother and I were counting my cash one day so I decided to let him have a little fun. I told him that he can keep whatever money he catches… He caught $57 of MY hard earned cash. Shoulda thought this one through more.”
Good Brother Dan meme in 3… 2…
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This is really cute.
Fan-Made Ad of the Day: From the funny folks who brought you the best Doritos Super Bowl spot that won’t appear during the Super Bowl comes another great Doritos Super Bowl spot that was simply too good for Doritos to air. (That must be the reason it didn’t win their Crash the Super Bowl competition because I could think for a thousand years and still be unable to come up with a better explanation.)
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Crow roof tubing (Ворона катается с крыши) (by penelopakristi viz gizmodo)
…and here’s crow sledding down a roof.
The end.
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