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"A superstitious man might just have balked at putting to sea on Friday 13th in the centenary year of the sinking of the Titanic ..." Fatal Voyage is the first comprehensive account of the wrecking of the Costa Concordia - an enthralling narrative of events before, during and after the 114,000-ton liner slammed into rocks off the Mediterranean island of Giglio. Focusing on the experiences of a Californian family, Fatal Voyage brings to life the terrifying reality of being trapped aboard the listing, crippled Costa Concordia. And it shows that some of the issues raised by the Titanic disaster are as relevant today as they were 100 years ago. John Hooper is the Rome-based correspondent of The Economist and Guardian. He has been reporting from the countries of the Mediterranean for almost 25 years. His book, The Spaniards, won the Allen Lane Award for a best first work of non-fiction. It has since been revised and updated as The New Spaniards. Hooper grew up in a port and has an abiding interest in ships and the sea.
- Sales Rank: #522838 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-01-27
- Released on: 2015-01-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
On the night of January 13, 2012, the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia strikes a rock off the coast of Giglia, a small island in the Tuscan Archipelago. The nearly 1,000-foot vessel begins to lurch violently to the side, sending more than 4,000 passengers and crew into darkness and confusion. It is a night where "panic eventually gives way to hysteria," and hours later the worldwide press will echo that hysteria as video of the wounded Goliath listing in shallow waters is beamed around the globe. As details and rumors spread, the world will remain captivated by tales of captain's error and a mysterious blonde, by stories of bravery, sacrifice, disappearance, and death. But how could a pleasure cruise aboard a modern luxury liner--in waters that have been charted for hundreds, if not thousands, of years--result in such tragedy? In this captivating Kindle Single, The Guardian's John Hooper takes an in-depth look at the personal accounts, the mysteries, the poor decisions, and the possible explanations to reveal a deeper picture of the events surrounding the worst Italian maritime disaster since the 1956 sinking of the Andrea Doria. --Chris Schluep
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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
Disaster at sea
By Kindle Customer
Another night to remember, the sinking of the "RMS Titanic" in the icy cold North Atlantic a hundred years ago, the "SS Andrea Doria's" collision with the "MS Stockholm" and its capsizing in 1956 off Nantucket, and now on January 13, 2012, the Italian cruise liner "MS Costa Concordia" strikes bottom and flounders off the coast of a small island in the Tuscan Archipelago.
John Hooper tells the story as it should be told. He uses a reporter's instinct for observation and detail and from the facts weaves a great narrative involving many of the people aboard the pleasure liner.
Among the 4,000 passengers were Dean Ananias, 64, a Vietnam vet and retired schoolteacher from Downey, Calif., his wife Georgia and daughters Valerie, 31 and Cindy, 23. The Ananias family was on holiday, getting away and hoping for a relaxing cruise through western Mediterranean.
At 9 p.m. on that cold Tuscan evening they were enjoying a late dinner in the ship's two-story restaurant, in the middle of their salad course, when they felt the Concordia shudder. It seemed they said as if they were in the middle of a mini-earthquake.
Then the thumping stopped and with a boom, everything went black and they began being pelted from the restaurant's upper level by a cascade of dishes, glasses and silverware. That was the beginning of their five-hour ordeal during which four times they said their goodbyes, feeling certain that they were going to die.
At one point with the ship listing almost perpendicular to the water they found themselves clambering on the hull, hanging on while fearing that the ship was about to roll and capsize taking them under. They were clinging to the port side of the ship and totally unaware that the Concordia had settled on a shoal only 70 meters from shore and that safety was less than a football field away. The Ananias' story is one of many personal accounts Hooper reports. All of them are harrowing.
Videos of heated arguments between crew and hysterical passengers went viral. Rumors circulated about a drunken captain showboating and then cowardly deserting the ship for safety and leaving hundreds of terrified passengers in a panic, struggling to survive. Hooper takes a close look at events sorts through the facts and speculation and creates a vivid account of what it must have been like during those five hours of pandemonium.
When it was over 17 people had been confirmed dead and 15 were still missing. Although Hooper's story is relatively short, more like a long magazine article, it feels comprehensive and as accurate as it is captivating.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
What was the captain thinking?
By J. Chambers
I think that what really captured the world's attention in the Costa Concordia incident was that exactly one hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic, a huge, modern cruise ship with high tech navigation and propulsion systems could founder on the rocks within seventy meters of land. The pictures of the giant ship rolled on its side within spitting distance of a lighthouse were an almost surreal sight, but sobering in the fact that almost three dozen people are believed to have died.
Author John Hooper has done a splendid job of putting the pieces together in a very readable account of the disaster, one that focuses on the human interest element of the story. The experiences of several passengers were related, including Domnica Cemortan (was she the "Mystery Blonde" who was with the ship's captain the night of the accident?) and Father Massimo Donghi, who had told his parishioners that he was on a spiritual retreat, but was found out when his name was mentioned as a survivor. With the confusion that reigned after the collision, and the conflicting orders being given to the passengers, it now seems a miracle that more than four thousand passengers and crew were saved.
But the real "star" of the story was the Costa Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino. The case against Schettino will undoubtedly play out on the Italian judicial system for years to come, but apparently he was performing a risky and dangerous "sail-past" of the little island of Giglio. As reckless as that was, when the poo hit the fan, Schettino's behavior went from bad to worse, as he was one of the first to abandon the stricken ship. (I learned that a captain going down with his ship is not just a tradition in Italy. Under Italian maritime law, a captain who deserts the passengers and crew can go to prison for several years.)
As befits a Kindle Short, the story is brief--about a half-hour read for most--with no wasted words. Intriguing reading, and highly recommended.
EDIT (2-22-12): I looked up Giglio ("Isola del Giglio") on Google Earth. Interestingly, a picture of the Costa Concordia has been overlaid on the aerial photography to show its location (turn on the "3D Buildings" level of Google Earth to see it).
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Okay
By Sceptic
More of a short magazine article. I thought I had just finished the introduction - names of people, a little history - and then it was done. It made me want more but I don't think I'll pay for it here.
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