Costa Concordia cruise ship pictures: Trapped survivorManrico Giampedroni airlifted to safety

Bodies regarding a couple of elderly men found in submerged restaurant

Captain held in suspicion regarding manslaughter as death toll reaches five

Passengers tell regarding 'chaos' as crew members said 'go back for your cabins'

Survivors leapt pertaining to their particular lives to the icy sea because the liner rolled onto its side

Boat was 'four miles off course' in the wedding it hit rocks

Bodies involving a pair of French passengers along using a Peruvian crewman recovered yesterday

Liner had outlined thus badly 'lifeboats had problems becoming launched'

37 Britons on board as well as have been reported safe and well

By Ian Gallagher along with Nick Pisa and Emily Allen

Updated: 10:56 GMT, 16 January 2012

The senior crew member dramatically winched to be able to safety after a pair of times trapped onthe doomed Costa Concordia mentioned he 'never lost hope of becoming saved' during his '36-hournightmare'.

Cabin services director Manrico Giampedroni, 57, ended up being discovered in one of the poshItalian cruise liner's restaurants which was semi-submerged with water. Italian information reportssay he stayed behind to assist passengers to the lifeboats however because the vessel detailed he felland broke his leg.

His feedback came yesterday, since it emerged divers had discovered a couple of a lot more bodies.

Yesterday afternoon the actual Italian coastguard stated the actual bodies of a couple of elderly menwere located inside a submerged restaurant, using the death toll to five. two French passengers anda Peruvian crew member were confirmed dead yesterday. A New sixth physique was found thismorning.

But there was nevertheless glimmers of hope. Late last night a pair of 29-year-old newlyweds wereplucked alive from the wreckage. The Actual couple via South Korea ended up on their ownhoneymoon once they became stranded 2 decks beneath rescuers who ultimately heard theirscreams.Â

More as compared to 4,000 everyone was evacuated when the ship ran aground off the actual coastregarding Tuscany about Friday night. The total involving 16 individuals are still missing.

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Manrico Giampetroni will be 57 and also may alwaysbe the cabin service director. He ended up being trapped for a lot more than 24 hours

Mr Giampetroni is strapped to a rescue worker alongwith airlifted from your ship

Mr Giampetroni is hoisted into the helicopter. Heincludes a suspected broken leg

Rescue: The Actual Costa Concordia is pictured this morning as rescuers in the boat co-ordinateyour rescue effort through the desperate hunt for further survivors

Safe: The Actual ship's cabin service director, 57-year-old Manrico Giampetroni, ended up beingdiscovered within an air pocket in a flooded restaurant two times following the incident. He waswinched to safety along with features a suspected broken leg

The newlyweds, who are not necessarily thought being injured, informed firefighters they hadn'tseen as well as heard some other survivors through the a day these were trapped. Just About All 23British passengers and 12 crew happen to be reported safe as well as well.

Meanwhile, the Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, as well as 1st officer Ciro Ambrosio weredetained final night from the authorities station inside Porto Santo Stefano about the Italianmainland, while they faced continuing questioning in regards in order to the events leading up to thedisaster. Prosecutors are generally investigating achievable fees of multiple manslaughter as well asabandoning your ship although passengers were still throughout danger.

Prosecutor Francesco Verusio mentioned your Concordia had approached the actual tiny island ofGiglio 'the wrong way', whilst resources asserted the particular 52-year-old captain, from Naples,had abandoned the actual ship in about 11.30pm neighborhood moment - about an hour right after itstruck a rocky outcrop and began taking in h2o - while the last passengers weren't taken to safetyuntil 3am yesterday morning.

As the actual liner lay virtually flat about its starboard side last night, a new 160ft gash visible aboutits upturned hull, rescue workers raised the actual possibility in which there may nevertheless bebodies inside the submerged section.

Fire solutions spokesman Luca Cari mentioned specialist diving teams would 'check all associatedwith the interior spaces in the ship' as well as added: 'We don't eliminate your possibility that lotsmore people will most likely be lost.'

Lucky to become alive: Newlyweds from South Korea are generally triggered safety by Italianfirefighters right after rescue workers discovered all of them trapped within the partly sunk ship thismorningÂ

Screams: Rescue workers heard this South Korean man and the wife screaming as well as took 90minutes to free associated with charge them. The Particular 29-year-old will be pictured movingaway from any ferry for you to safety

Dry land: Jeong Hye Jim, left, and the wife Kideok Hanmarito talk towards the press right after theywere rescued through Italian emergency solutions last night

Two with the confirmed victims were French and furthermore the third victim ended up beingnamed as Tomas Alberto Costilla Mendoza, a crewman outdated 49, from Peru.

One report mentioned final night which 29 Filipino kitchen workers had been feared trapped in thebowels of the 951ft, £390 million Concordia.

Last night concerns had been raised about the chaos and confusion on board and in addition thedelays inside evacuating the particular vessel.

It has been in addition suggested the passenger checklist may well not have been heldapproximately date, which in turn might account for one particular missing.

Recounting scenes reminiscent with the film Titanic, survivors spoke associated with crawlingthroughout darkness together upended hallways and also stairwells as crockery as well aseyeglasses smashed around them.

Underwater: Divers took these photographs in the submerged parts of the actual stricken cruiseshipwhile they searched amid your wreckage with regard to lacking passengers and crew today

A photo taken by Spanish passenger Carlos Carballa up in order to speed cruiseship as panickingpassengers wait around to become evacuated in Friday night

Worried: Passengers hold out being rescued from your ship. Many reported issues throughoutlaunching the particular lifeboats since the ship had listed so badly

There were in addition reports associated with passengers wearing lifestyle jackets more thanevening dress jumping overboard to the cold, night sea and also wanting to swim ashore.

One of the actual really most dramatic accounts of the night time originated in 22-year-old RoseMetcalf, through Dorset, who had been one of the most recent people to leave your vessel.

She had been certainly 1 of eight British dancers operating about the Concordia as well as spoke ofhanging to the water hose that a friend had tied towards the ship's handrail if this began to end upbeing able to list.

Later, right after being rescued by simply helicopter, the girl left a note on your ex behalf fathersaying: 'I do not really know the quantity of are usually dead. I am alive . . . just. I feel I was the past1 off.' Just About All 37 Britons aboard were believed safe last night.

Gashed open: Your massive Costa Concordia listing after it absolutely was split open on the rock

Members with the emergency services crawl over the side with the half submerged cruise linerCosta Concordia as the search for survivors continue

Efforts to achieve survivors have got hampered by blocked doors and also staircases based onreports. 3 individuals happen for you to be rescued which includes a new crew member using asuspected broken leg

Italian Coast Guard personnel recover the particular black box from your Costa Condordia cruiseship in which ran aground off your west coast involving Italy

Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia carrying greater than 4,000 individuals ran aground and also

keeled more than off your Italian coast close to the island regarding Giglio throughout Tuscany,Italy, final night

The Costa Concordia after the evacuation off the Itaiian coast ended up completed. Tonight CaptainFrancesco Schettino has been becoming quizzed by police

The cruiseship that ran aground is seen off your west coast regarding Italy like a helicopter hoversabove to test and discover passengers

The damage to the vessel can be seen fairly clearly

The captain with the Costa Concordia cruise ship, Francesco Schettino is taken directly into custodywithin Grosseto, Italy

Lifeboats are usually pictured inside the foreground. Amongst your dead was a man about age 65,who officials believe may well not have been capable of withstand your cold of the sea from night

Passengers spoke of having to crawl together close to vertical hallways as well as stairwells to fleethe particular ship because it began to consider in much more and a lot more water

The ship had been on a Mediterranean cruise starting from the Italian town of Civitavecchia alongwith scheduled calls with Savona, Cagliari and Palermo, just about all in addition throughout Italy;

Marseilles within France; along with Barcelona as well as Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

As divers searched places with the ship which were now underwater, there is a few concernpertaining to their safety in the huge event the vessel shifted.

'It is really a extremely delicate operation because the ship may transfer or even sink farther,'mentioned a spokesman pertaining to Italy's coastguard. 'This could endanger the divers, trappingthese inside the particular wreck.'

Many with the passengers had been sitting as any result of consume inside the Concordia'srestaurants once they heard any loud bang followed by means of a 'terrible groaning' noise.

Diners were instructed to keep seated even since the ship began listing. According for the captain,your ship had an electrical problem. but even even though it quickly became obvious that will theissue was way worse, passengers continued to become advised for a excellent 45 minutes that willthere is the easy technical problem.

Even when the situation became clearer crew members delayed lowering your lifeboats despite thereal fact that the ship has been listing badly.

'We were needed to scream at the controllers in order to launch the boats from the side,' statedMike van Dijk, any 54-year-old through Pretoria, South Africa.

'We were standing in the corridors plus they weren't allowing us to get upon for the boats. Thiswould become a scramble, an absolute scramble.'

Robert Elcombe, 50, coming from Colchester nevertheless that now lives in Australia, stated he andhis wife Tracy got into a lifestyle boat - nevertheless had been ordered out once again when staffstated it was 'only a generator problem' that might be fixed.

He said: 'But once we got again inside your ship it tilted so steeply that will I needed to seize holdof people to save lots of them because they flew along the corridor.

'It ended up being real Titanic stuff. We lost everything: passports, luggage, money. But at leastwe're alive, unlike several people.'

Close-up: The woman looks at your cruiseship as it lies half inside the drinking water off your coastinvolving Italy. three folks happen to be killed

A woman is cared with regard to by a rescue worker plus a kid will be taken to safety. thousands ofpeople are already affected from the incident

Rescue workers help a woman as the girl is actually triggered safety with Porto Santo Stefano.Lifeboats had difficulty launching

Passengers get to Porto Santo Stefano

The evacuees were using refuge within schools, hotels, along with a church on the tiny islandassociated with Giglio, a well known holiday isle about 18 miles off Italy's central west coast

Georgia Ananias, 61, via Los Angeles, recalled crawling alongside a hallway since the ship began toupturn. The Lady mentioned an Argentine couple handed her their own three-year-old daughter, asthey were struggling to keep their particular balance. 'I grabbed your baby. Nevertheless then Iended up being getting pushed down,' the lady said. 'I didn't want the baby for you to fall on thestairs. I gave the infant back. I couldn't maintain her. I believed which was the finish and also Ithought that they ought for you to be making use associated with their baby. I surprise exactlywhere these people are.'

Passengers Alan along with Laurie Willitsthrough Ontario mentioned these folkswere watching the unique moment showinside the ship's primary theatre after theyfelt a preliminary lurch, adopted a couple ofmere seconds later by way of a shudder.

They mentioned the actual ship thendetailed and the theatre curtains gave theactual look of these folks were sitting on hisor her side. 'And then your magiciandisappeared,' stated Mr Willits.

When he left takes place it panicked youraudience members that fled with regard to their cabins.

LEVIATHANS THAT PLOUGH THE SEAS

Owned by giant US cruise range Carnival, the actual Costa Concordia is the world's 26th largestpassenger ship.

But despite a 114,500 gross tonnage, 951ft length along with a capacity with regard to 3,206passengers as well as 1,023 crew, your woman is a relative minnow in comparison for the 2 biggestocean liners, Oasis with the Seas and its sister ship Allure with the Seas, managed simply by RoyalCaribbean International. These People displace 225,282 tons every and are generally 1,187ft long.Every accommodates 6,296 passengers along with 2,165 crew.

Third will always be the 155,873-ton Norwegian Epic, controlled through Norwegian Cruise Line,although Queen Mary 2, flagship involving Cunard - such as P&O additionally section of Carnival -can be seventh with 151,400 tons.

The top liners by simply size are: 1/2 Allure in the Seas/ Oasis in the Seas, Royal CaribbeanInternational. three Norwegian Epic, Norwegian Cruise Line. 4/5Â Freedom of the Seas/Liberty inthe Seas, Royal Caribbean. six Independence with the Seas, Royal Caribbean. 7 Queen Mary 2,Cunard. 8/9 Navigator of the Seas/Mariner of the Seas, Royal Caribbean. 10/11 MSC Fantasia/MSCSplendida, MSC Cruises.

A Carabinieri boat approaches the Costa Concordia as it lies partly submerged inside the h2o off theactual coast regarding Tuscany

Collision: Rocks embedded inside the ruptured aspect with the Costa Concordia reveal the extentwith the damage towards the hull

There had been reports final night in which captain Schettino, ended up dining with passengers oncethe accident happened - nevertheless the ship's operating company, Costa Crociera, mentioned hehas been around the bridge.

He then found that the particular ship has been four miles off course, however has been unsure why.one theory can be that the electrical fault had wiped out the actual ship's navigational power andalso steering control. Captain Schettino told investigators that charts showed he is at waters deepadequate in order to navigate.

He was quoted as saying: 'The region has been safe, the water has been deep enough. We struck thestretch regarding rock that was not really marked about the charts. As way as I'm concerned, wewere in perfectly navigable waters.'

Francesco Paolillo, the coastguard commander, stated the vessel 'hit an obstacle', ripping a newgash throughout the left side in the ship, which started taking about water. He said the particularcaptain attemptedto steer his ship toward shallow waters, near Giglio's little port, to createevacuation by lifeboat easier.

But when Captain Schettino realised the severity with the situation, he gave your order to abandonship with seven short whistles.

Within minutes the actual Costa Concordia, began to list dramatically, reaching an angle associatedwith 20 degrees within just two hours. the angle became too steep pertaining to lifeboat evacuation,and instead, 5 helicopters from the coastguard, navy as well as air force airlifted the past 50passengers nonetheless aboard.

By early morning, nine hours following the incident, the particular Costa Concordia, has been withan angle of greater than 80 degrees.

Officials last night said your dead had been the Peruvian crew member and two French tourists.

One Italian passenger said: 'There was just utter chaos and panic. no 1 from the crew seemed foryou to know what these folks were doing.

'No one counted us, neither within the existence boats nor in land,' said Ophelie Gondelle, 28, theFrench military officer. Your Woman mentioned there ended up simply no evacuation drill since sheboarded in January 8.

The evacuees initially took refuge throughout schools, hotels plus a church around the tiny islandinvolving Giglio, with regards to 18 miles off Italy's west coast. Mayor Sergio Ortelli issued anappeal regarding 'anyone having a roof' to start their properties for you to survivors. Throughyesterday afternoon they had just about all been flown to the mainland.

Operation: Rescue boats of the stranded cruise ship Costa Concordia arrive in the harbour anddozens associated with passengers are usually pictured about the quayside

Coastguard officials confirmed in which 3,200 passengers had been onboard from time insupplement to 1,000 crew members and many types of ended up evacuated by lifeboat along withtaken for the island associated with Giglio

CRUISE SHIP INDUSTRY HAS BOOMED WITH MILLIONS OF PASSENGERS ENJOYING HOLIDAYS

By Polly Dunbar

Since the actual 1980s, the particular cruise industry provides boomed, together with greater than19 million passengers using 1 last year and nine as well as more newly-built cruise ships regarding100,000 tonnes as well as higher being built each and every year for your past decade.

Traditionally, the vast majority involving cruises are already taken by simply Americans for theCaribbean islands, but the Mediterranean marketplace is rapidly expanding, using Italy theparticular prime destination.

Cruise liners are designed for pleasure voyages, by which your atmosphere as well as the luxuriousameneties are the significant focus with the experience, as opposed to your transportation itself.

As a result, they're built differently through ocean liners, which in turn will frequently have higherfreeboards and also stronger plating in order to withstand adverse circumstances encounteredinside the open ocean, such since the Atlantic, reducing fuel consumption. Cruise ships also have U-shaped bottoms, whereas ocean liners - such as the particular 1,132-ft RMS Queen Mary II, whichcould be often useful for cruising - will often have deep V-shaped bows to aid them power via thewaves.

However, being an industry, cruising includes a safety record typically thought to be excellent. MoreThan yesteryear 2 decades, an estimated 90 million passengers have enjoyed a cruise without mainincident. the overwhelming majority regarding deaths on cruise ships tend to be from natual causesor perhaps suicides. Â

Although cruise lines appear to be leading heavy, most of how much they weigh are at your bottom,even even though the structure in the actual direction of the really best is designed to becomparatively lightweight.

According to Malcolm Latarche, editor with the global transport magazine IHS Fairplay Solutions,the actual 950-ft Costa Concordia, which had been integrated 2005, ended up being designed tostandards comparable with ocean liners.

'The Concordia has been able to travelling throughout the Atlantic, or perhaps anywhere inside theworld. That was considerably small in contrast to your Queen Mary II, however it absolutely wasbuilt to the identical standards,' he said.

'Modern cruise lines are usually built to become as sturdy along with safe as possible. That Theyhave being - they will can be carrying thousands of passengers.'

Mr Latarche believes the actual Concordia disaster could have been triggered simply by an electricalfault, which caused a loss regarding power within the ship and led it to crash into rocks.

'Although the actual damage caused for the ship has been severe, you will find many safeguardswithin the style of the state in the artwork cruise liner to become able to avoid it turning over. Therecan become a 2nd hull within the outer hull. Inside the actual inner hull there is actually a steelcomposition such as an ice tray for you to include your h2o and avoid it spreading by means of theactual ship.

'In this case, the master rightly attempted to return it for the shore, nevertheless it seems to getkeeled more than since it hit shallow drinking water around the coast. An ocean cruiseship just isn'tdesigned to float within 20ft associated with water. This requirements a lot greater than which tostay upright.'

Passenger ships - understood to be any kind of ship carrying greater than 12 passengers - mustcomply with International Maritime Organisation regulations, which in turn cover every aspect ofthe construction and operation.

According to Mr Latarche, your fact that the typical tonnage of cruise lines offers doubled within thelast decade is truly a full-scale evacuation at sea practically impossible.

Under new laws launched by the IMO in 2010, the particular really newest ships have becomedesigned to become in any position to return for you to port even in the event of the significant fireor loss regarding power upon board, so as to produce evacuation unnecessary.

The Concordia has been commissioned five yr prior towards the new rules, but, Mr Latarche said:'Even if the many sophisticated ship in the world went in to shallow water, your chance is it mightflip in its side.

'This would always be a special scenario where the quantity of circumstances most came together.'

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