Costa Concordia: Back on the night of January 13

The night of 13 January 2012, to 21 hours, the Costa Concordia approaching the island of Giglio to salute its 800 inhabitants to death with siren. At the controls of the cruise ship, the captain Francesco Schettino. It was he who ordered the deviation of the ship, unauthorized, off course.

Result: at 21:40 the ship hits a rock opening a waterway. On board, more than 4200 people and a reassuring message evokes a power failure, when the ship began to capsize. On deck is the confusion between the captain and crew, as shown in this video shot in the hour following the shock:

An officer: "Commander, passengers get on the lifeboats spontaneously"

Schettino: "Ok, let them go down."

The officer: "Let us engage the general emergency signal ?."

Schettino: "Wait, wait."

The officer: "Emergency Signal ..."

Schettino: "Abandon ship. Abandon ship! "

The alert is given one hour after the shock. The evacuation of over 4,200 people is in chaos, there are not enough lifeboats and passengers into the water at night.

But on this video taken by firefighters, Captain Schettino is currently Abandoner the ship to get on a lifeboat while it remains of hundreds of people on board.

And then follows this heated exchange, where the captain of the Coast Guard, Gregorio di Falco sum Schettino: "You go on board. It is an order. You have declared abandoning ship, now I command. You go on board! "

Schettino, who became the "coward captain" to the public, has always downplayed his responsibilities, referring to his crew's fault that would have misinformed. It was also awarded "to gravity" abandonment precipitate ship.