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IRL_Joanie

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Joanie, this appears (to me) to be just an image and not a webcam. I believe this is the webcam link for this view point:

 

http://www.giglionews.it/2010022440919/webcam/isola-del-giglio/webcam-giglio-porto-panoramica.html

 

... that you can enlarge. IF you go to the top of the web cam image that I provided the link to and look at the date and time, when you refresh the image the date and time and the VIEW will change.

 

I do not know how they do it but it is a working Web Cam:)

 

Believe me, I have been watching it since the 14th of January. It changes when you refresh your web browsers refresh button. Look at the date and time at the top right when you hit the refresh button. It does not automatically refresh on its own as the Port Web Cam does

 

Joanie

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From Repubblica:

http://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/02/18/news/schettino_non_ha_assunto_droghe_o_alcol-30099142/

 

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The Commander's hair a small presence of traces of cocaine. It would have been touched by someone who had used drugs

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Commander Francis Schettino has not drunk alcohol or take drugs before the accident the Costa Concordia. The analysis of urine and hair do not have detected the presence of these substances. Hair on the outside but there is an almost imperceptible from cocaine contamination.

 

The results of the survey conducted at the Catholic University of Rome were communicated informally to the Prosecutor in Grosseto. Schettino hasn't consumed drugs even in the months preceding the incident of 13 January, says an analysis of hair, able to be traced back very far back in time. The small presence of traces of drugs would be attributed to possible hair Schettino touch from someone who had used cocaine.

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From Repubblica:

http://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/02/18/news/schettino_non_ha_assunto_droghe_o_alcol-30099142/

 

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The Commander's hair a small presence of traces of cocaine. It would have been touched by someone who had used drugs

 

Commander Francis Schettino has not drunk alcohol or take drugs before the accident the Costa Concordia. The analysis of urine and hair do not have detected the presence of these substances. Hair on the outside but there is an almost imperceptible from cocaine contamination.

 

The results of the survey conducted at the Catholic University of Rome were communicated informally to the Prosecutor in Grosseto. Schettino hasn't consumed drugs even in the months preceding the incident of 13 January, says an analysis of hair, able to be traced back very far back in time. The small presence of traces of drugs would be attributed to possible hair Schettino touch from someone who had used cocaine.

Now who would that be?? Ah I know...its the cook in the galley. He runs his hands through the capt's hair all the time.

 

The cook and anyone else who runs their hands through the capt's hair is now suspect. who could that be?

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Latest Concordia article published today in La Repubblica:

 

(Google Translation)

 

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffirenze.repubblica.it%2Fcronaca%2F2012%2F02%2F18%2Fnews%2Fschettino_non_ha_assunto_droghe_o_alcol-30099142%2Findex.html%3Fref%3Dsearch

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From Channel Guide:

 

"Discovery Channel will be airing exclusive footage of Capt. Francesco Schettino and his crew from inside the Costa Concordia bridge assessing what to do next as passengers fight for survival — taken during the Jan. 13 incident in which the Italian cruise ship ran aground and began to sink — in the world-premiere special Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside the Concordia, premiering on the network this Sunday, Feb. 19, at 10pm ET/PT.

 

In the footage, Schettino is shown speaking by phone on the bridge, illuminated only by emergency lights after the power failed. He seems oblivious to the escalating emergency and the danger faced by the 4,200 passengers and crew. As the minutes tick by, an officer is heard shouting, “What shall we do? What shall we do?” Someone else cries, “General emergency!” But the order to abandon ship is still not given. Instead, Schettino is heard urgently asking for “tug boats.”

 

Cruise Ship Disaster dissects the anatomy of this crisis, enlisting forensic specialists from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy to investigate what went wrong. Reviewing the series of directives made by Capt. Schettino, the team of experts reveals that, in the end, the changing direction of the wind saved thousands of lives by pushing the sinking luxury liner closer to shore."

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Every day I check back on the webcam to see if there is any more progress. It seems like they are taking the fuel off this ship with a soda straw. There was a concern at first about how dangerous it was to search for bodies because of the ship shifting and it was being reported that it has indeed shifted some and could continue to do so. I saw they said the removal of fuel could take up to 10 months but it seems like they really need to get a move on. If the ship is in danger of shifting, anything such as a bad storm could cause a major issue like the whole ship could go under, according to that .pif post on what could go wrong. Why aren't they going faster? I realize it could be dangerous with the fuel and all but they need to move on this trying to get the ship to float again and repairing the holes from the collision and the explosion holes they made to search for bodies.

 

Don't you think the experts know what they are doing?

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Dmetrius

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Driving the ship, high on cocaine.

Captain Schettino better watch his speed.

Trouble ahead, titanic boulders.

Maybe that notion should've crossed his mind... ♪

no no no. he was not the user. His weakness was good old alcohol.Vino. She?who ran her hands thru his hair

may have been may have been the user but did she undergo drug tests immediately post-crash?

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More and more I wonder if there are going to be any parts of the hull worth salvaging:

 

http://news.discovery.com/earth/video-exclusive-underwater-damage-concordia-120218.html

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Lending credence to that theory is the fact that Schettino has openly admitted to having taken tranquilizers the night he steered the ship into a reef off the Italian coast and capsized the vessel, yet no traces of that medication were found in the hair and urine samples, either.

 

WHAT? When did he "openly admit" that? Has this been out there and I've somehow missed all the posts mentioning it??? :confused: :eek:

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Driving the ship, high on cocaine.

Captain Schettino better watch his speed.

Trouble ahead, titanic boulders.

Maybe that notion should've crossed his mind... ♪

 

Lol!!!!!

 

IIRC a hair follicle assay will show cocaine use going back 6 months or more. Urine is 3 days. Blood serum: I forget.

 

Ride em, cowboy!

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WHAT? When did he "openly admit" that? Has this been out there and I've somehow missed all the posts mentioning it??? :confused: :eek:

 

I am trying to remember back in time. I believe that there was a report in the couple days after the incident that the captain could not sleep and a doctor prescribed tranquilizers. This probably means a medicine like Valium (imho).

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You mean that he was having difficulty sleeping in the days following the crash, not that he had an ongoing sleep problem for which he took a sedative the night of the crash (long before he had any intention of retiring....) Correct?

 

Yes, Correct.

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You mean that he was having difficulty sleeping in the days following the crash, not that he had an ongoing sleep problem for which he took a sedative the night of the crash (long before he had any intention of retiring....) Correct?

 

As a follow-up, I will note that someone just posted some information from an article talking about the captain taking tranquilizers before the accident in the Oz thread. But this is the first time I heard this claim...

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'Cocaine traces' found on hair of captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia'

 

 

 

THE captain of the Costa Concordia, the wrecked cruise liner, had traces of cocaine on his hair, say survivors of last month's maritime disaster who have been given access to prosecution evidence.

But the sample may have been contaminated because there was no trace of the drug inside the hair or in the urine of Captain Francesco Schettino, who is under investigation for manslaughter.

Stefano Zerbi, a spokesman for a group representing some of the survivors, said the results were “very strange” and suggested the evidence had been contaminated. Lawyers are demanding that tests on the captain are repeated.

 

 

Meanwhile, the owner of the liner plans to refloat the vessel and tow her away “in one piece” in an unprecedented salvage operation that will cost an estimated $220 million.

Salvage experts last week began pumping diesel and heavy oil from the ship's 17 fuel tanks. The liner struck rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio on the night of January 13 with 4,200 passengers and crew aboard; 17 people died and another 15 are still missing, presumed dead

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CONCORDIA COULD COLLAPSE UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT

The massive cruise liner is balancing on two rocks and has massive cracks.

 

http://news.discovery.com/earth/costa-concordia-collapse-121902.html

 

Thank you for posting this link. While I had seen the original video spoken in Italian, but this version in English was easier for me to understand; watching it was chilling.

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From Channel Guide:

 

"Discovery Channel will be airing exclusive footage of Capt. Francesco Schettino and his crew from inside the Costa Concordia bridge assessing what to do next as passengers fight for survival — taken during the Jan. 13 incident in which the Italian cruise ship ran aground and began to sink — in the world-premiere special Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside the Concordia, premiering on the network this Sunday, Feb. 19, at 10pm ET/PT.

 

In the footage, Schettino is shown speaking by phone on the bridge, illuminated only by emergency lights after the power failed. He seems oblivious to the escalating emergency and the danger faced by the 4,200 passengers and crew. As the minutes tick by, an officer is heard shouting, “What shall we do? What shall we do?” Someone else cries, “General emergency!” But the order to abandon ship is still not given. Instead, Schettino is heard urgently asking for “tug boats.”

 

Cruise Ship Disaster dissects the anatomy of this crisis, enlisting forensic specialists from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy to investigate what went wrong. Reviewing the series of directives made by Capt. Schettino, the team of experts reveals that, in the end, the changing direction of the wind saved thousands of lives by pushing the sinking luxury liner closer to shore."

 

 

Is this the same program that was on before? On National Geographic I believe.:confused:

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