A Cruise Ship runs Aground off Italy - Six Died and Four Thousand Evacuated (Updated)

[bill]

A cruise ship runs aground off Italy - six died and four thousand e...

ROME (AFP) - Six people died in the early hours of Saturday after a cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast in an accident which forced the coast guard to evacuate over 4,000 people, media reports said.

The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it hit a reef near the Isola del Giglio late Friday. The local mayor said he feared further casualties as it was proving difficult to rescue the last passengers.

One of the victims was a man in his 70s who died of a heart attack caused by the shock to his system when he jumped into the icy waters, reports said.

Several people were also injured in the accident, two of them seriously.

Most of the 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members had been evacuated, but around 200 people were still on board around 0230 GMT, according to the prefect of the nearby city of Grosseto, Giuseppe Linardi.

Helicopters with spotlights were being used to help rescuers.

"At around 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) the 290-metre-long Costa Concordia cruise ship... began taking on water and tilting over by around 20 degrees," the coast guard said in a statement, as most of those aboard were rescued in lifeboats.

Passengers heard a large bang and were initially told the ship had shuddered to a halt for electrical reasons, before being told to put on their life-jackets, a passenger from the boat told ANSA news agency by telephone.

"We were having supper when the lights suddenly went out, we heard a boom and a groaning noise, and all the cutlery fell on the floor," passenger Luciano Castro told ANSA news agency.

Some passengers jumped into the sea in their hurry to get off the sinking ship, according to the reports.

"It was like a scene from the Titanic," said passenger Mara Parmegiani.

The local mayor said they were trying to find room to accommodate the rescued passengers, including pregnant women and children.

"We are trying to accommodate them anywhere we can, in schools, nurseries, hotels, anywhere that has a roof," said mayor Sergio Ortelli, who added that some passengers were even bedding down for the night in the church.

The Costa Crociera company, which owns the vessel, said that it was not yet possible to say what caused the problem, but that the evacuation had been fast.

"The ship was on a cruise in the Mediterranean, leaving from Savona with planned stops in Civitavecchia, Palermo, Cagliari, Palma, Barcelona and Marseille," the company said.

"There were around 1,000 Italian passengers on board, as well as 500 Germans and around 160 French people," it added, without giving details about the rest.

The cruise ship -- which boasts 58 suites with balconies, five restaurants, 13 bars, five Jacuzzis and four swimming pools -- had set off from the Civitavecchia port near Rome earlier Friday when it ran into difficulties.

Boats from the nearby port helped evacuate the passengers and crew.

SOZT
The wobble induced North Sea storms are due to the pumping action of the wobble,
http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue273.htm
where the N Pole leans to the left for sunrise in Europe and then to the right for sunset in Europe. Thus the largest wave in to hit the Irish shores was registered at 2:00 pm.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/record-size-wave-hits-irish-shor...
But Europe also participate when the most violent push of the wobble occurs, when the Sun is high over the Pacific and Europe is in the dead of night. The globe is pushed violently north as the magnetic N Pole of Earth comes up over the horizon and is pushed away by Planet X. When this happens the globe is pushed SOUTHWARD on the opposite side of the globe, as the globe rolls as one.

What does this do to the rocky shores of Italy and any hapless ships moored or traveling just off the coast? The land is pushed UNDER the water, and the ship suddenly finds itself on rocks it though safely at a distance. Though obvious to the populace watching in amazement where the Sun is found these days, the Earth wobble is not something allowed into print. Thus the ship’s captain, desperate to explain what occurred, is at a loss and casting about to blame navigation equipment failure.  
EOZT

[astrogal50]

Sounds like the only way we, the common man, will learn the true cause of this incident is ZetaTalk.

[Stanislav]

I think there are three possible causes of the disaster:

1. I think what happened here orogeny.The Zetas have promised us a surprise in 8 out of 10 events in Italy. Stretch zone and the like ..

2. That African Roll caused orogeny.

3. Wobble. I agree with Nancy

But which of these reasons, the closer I do not know

The situation resembles what happened with the New Zealand ship.

[Kris H]

Thanks Nancy, that now makes more sense. Just wanted to make sure there was a tie to Earth changes, and that we're not just posting every accident worldwide without cause. (I never meant any disrespect Bill, or anything personal)

[astrogal50]

Gotta agree with Nancy, again.  Unexplained power outages and GPS failures can easily be related to the nearby presence of Planet X.  Power outages and equipment failures are usually reported locally, so people may not realize how common and unexplained they are now.

At least one ship grounding was explained by the Zetas, so I consider this report to be definitely about or related to earth changes.

... Our description of the progress on September 17, 2011 has not changed much, though the Indo-Australian Plate has lifted on the New Zealand end, grounding the cargo ship Rena, and sinking on the Sunda Plate has intensified.  http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/22oc2011.htm

[Nancy Lieder]

I'm trying to pin down the exact time it grounded, they say 2:30 GMT passengers still on board, implying a middle of the night slosh due to wobble. The captain would likely NOT say a slosh occurred, as who would believe him? He may be saying 'electrical problem' because HE has no better explanation. Ah, here it is "Six people died in the early hours of Saturday" so it was just after midnight.

Hey that fits! The Sun would be over the mid-Pacific then, and the magnetic N Pole (more over Siberia than above Alaska these days) coming up over the horizon. So the globe is shoved NORTH at that time, pushing the land of Italy SOUTH suddenly, in other words, pushing the rocks along that shoreline UNDER that ship! Wobble!

[Kris H]

@Nancy: But it looks like this was right in the harbor, with a lighthouse pier right in the pics next to the ship. Would a ship be using GPS that close to shore? Certainly the coast would have lights at night. Also, wasn't Air France due to being over the Atlantic Rift? I'm not trying to argue with you here, just posing questions from my understanding. But I could see the wobble possibly having an effect here, with the ship suddenly not where expected, and too late to avoid this reef.

[Nancy Lieder]

@Kris, electrical error! We have had plenty of problems with EMP stuff, remember Air France 447? Would not take much to confuse a ship in the middle of the night, all dark, etc. The sea is not all that deep in that region.

[Nancy Lieder]

There does not seem to be a fault line just where the ship ran aground, but could this have been a GPS problems? Seems this happened in the middle of the night? Next I am thinking WOBBLE problem as we are having increasing violence there, suddenly the ship finds itself not where it thought it was at all.

[Kris H]

I am wondering if it was just the Captain's error. Based on reports from people on the ship, they said the Captain reported some electrical failure, which was not true, according to witnesses. So either the Captain was lying to cover a mistake, or there was a localized failure in the control room or with the controls, which the Captain thought was a failure. Either way, that would just be human error, and this just an accident. Therefore not an Earth change.

[Kris H]

If the sea bed had lifted here, wouldn't the pier/harbor area have lifted also? From the pics it appears that the water level is normal.