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Three survivors found on grounded cruise ship
Italian rescuers find three survivors aboard the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship.
The chaotic escape from the Costa Concordia was straight out of a scene from 'Titanic'.
Three passengers have been found alive on the overturned cruise ship Costa Concordia, more than 24 hours after it ran aground off the Italian coast.
A third passenger was located hours after a honeymooning South Korean couple were found in a cabin.
Late Saturday a South Korean couple on their honeymoon were rescued when firefighters in the unsubmerged part of the ship heard their screams.
Three people are confirmed dead after the huge cruise ship ran aground on Friday night, and some 40 remain unaccounted-for.
Police divers and rescue crews on Sunday circled around the wreckage of ship off the coast of the island of Giglio. Crews in dinghies were touching the hull with their hands, near the site of the 160-foot (50-meter) -long gash where water flooded in and caused the ship to fall on its side.
Three people are so far confirmed dead and about 40 are unaccounted for.
The captain of the Costa Concordia has been detained for questioning, as police investigate why the accident happened in calm conditions.
Two French passengers and a Peruvian crew member died, and another 30 people were injured, two seriously.
Meanwhile, divers are continuing to comb submerged parts of the ship, which is lying on its side close to a coastal island.
The vessel, which is operated by Costa Cruises, had sailed from Civitavecchia near Rome on Friday on a regular weekly Mediterranean cruise when it ran aground.
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citizen----the human factor is always there yes but the incident plus the fact that the ship sank fast goes deeper than just incopetency of officers and crew;;;that ship design was too much loaded with hotel
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steam - this had nothing to do with engineering and everything to do with having incompetent morons in charge. Sooner or later this is what happens.
With GPS, auto pilots and many other navigation aids - there are no excuses.
And what about the panic and the panic abandoning ship?
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this incident is going to have a major impact on design safety rules control on all aspects of ship design and building. cruise ships have gone towards extreme hotel-ship building with the hotel aspect taking over forgetting that the sea has its rule and without any respect for what man thinks
