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Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:45 pm
by ewing2001
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:18 pm
by Terence.drew
brianv wrote:
Oi Terence, I'm thinking the Irish Lotto is a scam! The supposed and unpublished "milions winners" goes back to the banksters? Rollover, play dead!
I would say they have their hands on the loot alright. This is interesting also....
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish- ... 17434.html
Nothing changes in the emerald pile!
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:50 pm
by simonshack
Well, yeah - that's me allright: I remember that phone call. Didn't catch a word of what you said, though. And my English ain't all that bad!

Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:21 pm
by Terence.drew
Looking head on - the funnel of the Concordia starts at just past five to
A and ends at a minute or two to ten to
B. Has anybody seen any other times/angles?
A
B
There are a couple of minutes of big hand of the clock rotation backwards missing?
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:37 am
by simonshack
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Hmm...Terence, I too was wondering about the various angles/tilts (from image to image)...and water depths.
Here's an alleged infrared video of the nighttime rescue operations:
http://video.repubblica.it/dossier/nauf ... 5900?video
The next morning...
http://www.rnw.nl/espanol/article/firma ... o-italiano
And now we have 29 missing ...and 6 confirmed dead. (Wanna bet a pint of beer that the casualty figure will grow to 9?)
"Ancora incerto il numero dei dispersi: sarebbero 29 (molti stranieri), sei le vittime accertate."
http://www.repubblica.it/ (frontpage of January17, 2012)
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:21 am
by Terence.drew
Indeed Simon. Off beer for January though
There is another glaring anomaly about this incident which I cannot figure out but maybe there is an explanation for it.
There is damage and a huge hole on the Port (left) side and yet the ship has capsized onto it's starboard side. Water entering the craft would surely weigh down the port side first??
Come on ye grizzled ocean wayfaring experts enlighten us!
Are we going to be told that there is another huge hole on the starboard side?
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:29 pm
by nonhocapito
Dear Terrence: as previously discussed, what we are told so far is that the final position of the ship was reached because captain Schettino dropped the anchor from the opposite side from the hole, in order to swing around the boat closer to the coast (the boat was sailing in the opposite direction from what we see it facing now). Doing so, he apparently also managed to pull the boat down from the intact side, and have the hole come to the surface, preventing more water to fill the boat (sorry I don't know nautical jargon, but you got the picture).
What is now happening is that we are told in all possible manners by msm that
Schettino screwed up big time, failed to remain aboard until the last moment and got yelled at and insulted over the phone by the coast guard (the italian-speaking reader can listen to the conversation here:
http://video.corrierefiorentino.corrier ... /cf-167017). Another great achievement for Italy, for everyone to see. Sigh.
But, as Heiwa pointed out, from the things we are told so far we should conclude that captain Schettino at least got the last maneuver right. So he can't be such a big screw-up.
As to digital fakery:
Established that the boat is in a location where everyone can see it so it is impossible for the entire boat to be a digital concoction -- certain parts, such as the infamous piece of rock, as suggested by brianv, or certain sequences, such as the line of passengers standing on the tilted ship (a circumstance that no alleged survivor so far has described) could easily be forged (and I'm not saying they are.)
The line of people climbing down the tilted ship. Maybe these are all crew members. In any case, so far no survivor account contain description of such situation. From http://www.corriere.it/cronache/12_genn ... 9858.shtml
Just like with the presence of actual passengers, personally I haven't made up my mind yet. The situation is always developing, while we are told that the ship is sitting on a step of rock and sand, after which there is a drop of 80 meters.
What's sure is that this event remains verily absurd and suspiciously evocative. And ECB italian president Draghi declaring yesterday that the situation for the EU has gotten "very grave", doesn't make it any less suspicious.
In my mind this connects with the "Italy is under attack" topic, where italy becomes the soft spot to possibly damage irreparably the entire "concordia" in the EU...(sorry for the vague conspiracy theory here-- it is just difficult to avoid the idea).
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:06 pm
by Heiwa

looks very strange! Ship is at 90° list with bulbous bow above water, port upper side is horizontal, etc, etc. How can the ship rest so high above water? Photo is from an infrared video taken at night at unknown time by helicopter! More details would be welcome!
Anyway, I think incident is real (no psy-op or insurance fraud). The shipowner had decided that the vessel should race by the island at high speed to please passengers and islanders, it had been done before, and ... bad luck ... ship touched a rock and started to leak, etc, etc.
The Master did a very good job! Beached the ship on the rocks and managed to ensure that 99% of people aboard were evacuated to shore via lifeboats, calling his mama about it and so on. The Master is thus a HERO!
The shipowner then panicked and blamed everything on his shipmaster!
This will develop into a very interesting Italian drama.
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/news8.htm
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:26 pm
by nonhocapito
simonshack wrote:Wanna bet a pint of beer that the casualty figure will grow to 9?
You were close, Simon: it grew to
11:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-573 ... concordia/
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:45 pm
by Terence.drew
nonhocapito wrote: what we are told so far is that the final position of the ship was reached because captain Schettino dropped the anchor from the opposite side from the hole, in order to swing around the boat closer to the coast (the boat was sailing in the opposite direction from what we see it facing now). Doing so, he apparently also managed to pull the boat down from the intact side, and have the hole come to the surface, preventing more water to fill the boat
I see man thanks I hadn't seen that. There does seem to be a dangling chain or something coming from the fore of the ship on the side it capsizes in the few evening pictures that exist.

Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:28 pm
by whatsgoingon
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Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:28 pm
by nonhocapito
Missing
From http://www.corriere.it/cronache/12_genn ... 9858.shtml
* * *
In other news we are told that:
* Among the survivors is one "Valentina Capuano", direct descendant
of one of the victims of the Titanic. Of course.
* Captain Schettino has been
placed under house arrest, perhaps so that he can try and kill himself, in order to make this story even more dramatic, complicated, emotional and
distracting.
* The aforementioned quite insightful
article from SeaNews Turkey has been updated in the meantime, showing a slightly different passage near those rocks (the picture incorrectly calls them "Isole del scole". The name is "Le Scole"):
From http://www.seanews.com.tr/article/ACCID ... nal-error/
If I were a journalist I'd send a sub with a camera to picture the damage to those rocks. But I bet this won't happen anytime soon...
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:10 pm
by simonshack
Oh damn! I'll buy you pint a beer, Nonho - promise !
This 11 thing is getting pretty boring ! Here's a series of news articles - ALL related to the COSTA CONCORDIA :
THE DEATH TOLL IS NOW 11 - with 22 WOUNDED
THE CAPTAIN OF THE CONCORDIA HAS WORKED FOR 11 YEARS FOR THE SHIP OWNER:
THERE HAVE BEEN 11 MILLION PASSENGERS IN ITALIAN PORTS IN 2011
THE CRUISE SHIP BUSINESS IN THE MEDITERANNEAN IS WORTH 11 BILLION EURO
THE COSTA CONCORDIA IS THE 11TH SHIP IN THE CARNIVAL'S FLEET
THE BONDS OF THE CARNIVAL COMPANY (THE OWNERS OF THE COSTA CONCORDIA SHIP) COULD BE DEVALUED BY 11 CENTS
Un’azienda come la Carnival che anche in periodi di crisi ha avuto utili e ricavi per miliardi di dollari, non è certo contenta di sapere che una manovra sbagliata della Costa Concordia potrà ridurre di
11 centesimi il valore dei titolI.
http://economia.leonardo.it/costi-costa/
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:17 pm
by RoyBean
A link to a bio instead. Nico, how obnoxious of you !
Re: Costa Concordia
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:13 am
by lux
There seems to be an ongoing agenda to discourage travel in general via periodic, media-hyped plane, train, boat "accidents" as well as movies and television depicting same. This has been going on for quite some time now.
I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this one as the press bleeds every ounce of "shock" value possible out if it. And, I suppose the January 13 date and death toll of 11 pretty well tells us who is behind it. Now, let me guess -- did it go aground in 33 feet of water?
