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The Italian coast guard orders in vain the captain of the capsized Italian cruise ship to return on board to oversee the evacuation, according to a recording of the conversation released by a leading Italian newspaper...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 11:15:30 PM
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The publication of the transcripts by Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper comes as it was revealed junior officers onboard led a 'mutiny' after the ship struck a reef and captain Francesco Schettino dithered in giving the order to abandon the stricken vessel. According to coastguards Schettino did not give the crucial instructions until 10.58pm on Friday night, more than one hour after the initial impact with the rocks, and so wasting valuable time that contributed to the loss of six lives. Officials say that during those chaotic minutes, the bungling skipper had tried to palm them off and minimise the dangerous...
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The captain of the US 'Audacity of Hope' arrested for violating a Greek ban on sailing to Gaza from its ports was freed on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Greek authorities last week banned ships destined for Gaza from leaving Greek ports "for their safety". American John Klusmire, 60, was charged during a hearing on Tuesday with breaching the ban and putting lives at risk after being intercepted last week at sea by the Hellenic Coast Guard. When ordered to return to port Klusmire, ferrying mostly American passengers, refused, leading to a two-hour stand off that ended when Greek commandos boarded his...
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Entire plane evacuated for man's refusal to pull up his pants. He was flying home to attend best friend's funeralCan a baggy-pants fashion trend land you in jail and clear a plane before takeoff? It can in San Francisco International Airport. Deshon Marman, a 20-year-old football star from San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood, was asked to pull up his sagging pajama pants before his U.S. Airways flight home -- a flight to take him to his best friend's funeral. Marman's friend, David Henderson, was shot and killed on those same Bayview streets. Marman told his mother (see video) that he at...
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CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq, March 23, 2011 Capt. Kim Walter knew she wasnt going to get rich when she became the first woman in her family to join the Army. Army Capt. Kim Walter works on her daily reports at Contingency Operating Site Warrior in Kirkuk, Iraq, March 7, 2011. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Alyxandra McChesney (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. I didnt join for the money, and I didnt join for school, said the operations officer serving here with the 1st Infantry Divisions 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force. I joined...
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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit noted over the weekend that buried deep on the HHS website is a list of over 100 companies/organizations that have been granted waivers from the new health care law. Some of the companies on the list are well know, e.g. Olive Garden and Cracker Barrel restaurants and CIGNA health insurance. Others on the list seem conspicuous because of their small size. For instance, how did a company called Captain Elliots Party Boats get a waiver for their 10 employees? It turns out Captain Elliots Party Boats is the name of a company in Freeport, Texas...
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Japanese prosecutors have released the Chinese captain of a fishing boat who was arrested in waters off disputed islands in the East Sea earlier in September. "We decided it was inappropriate to continue the investigation while keeping the suspect in custody any further, considering the future of the Japan-China relationship," an official from the Osaka prosecutors' office said at news conference on Friday afternoon. Japan arrested the 41-year-old Chinese fishing boat captain, Zhan Qixiong, on September 8 following the collision of his boat with two Japanese coast guard vessels. The collision occurred in the disputed islands in the East Sea....
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