The
channel 'Discovery Max' showed last night a documentary, the
reconstruction of the recent tragic shipwreck in January, of the
cruiser 'Costa Concordia' The cruiser ran aground and still stuck there
now in front of the coast of Tuscany.The film could have been more
dramatic than say, the 'Poseidon Adventure, but ends up as pure Italian neorealism.
What
really happened at the moment of the accident? What roll the captain
Francesco Schettino played in the tragic outcome? How the passengers
& crew were evacuated? How were the search & rescue carried out?
etc. were some of the questions that this film 'Concordia, The Tragedy
From Within' tries to answer. The document also asks questions like
whether the salvage team could save the boat, dismount the enormous
body shell and the structure, and explains not just what they have done
since, also what is being planned for the recuperation and restoration
to follow.
The
production reconstructed scenes and some actual sequences, unedited,
of the captain & the crew on the bridge of command, deciding what
to do while the passenger are panicking and fighting for their lives.
One can see the captain talking on the phone, lit only by emergency
lights, not yet given order to abandon ship. One can hear clearly the
captain asking urgently for tugboats.
The
making of this documentary counted on the collaboration of forensic
specialists of the Maritime Academia of Massachusetts, who analysed the
errors that caused the disaster. After reconstructing the accident
minute by minute, the experts considered that the change of direction
of the wind that was 'pushing' the ship towards the coast had saved
thousands of lives.
Tags: visualchronicle, shipwreck
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