clear rants

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…”