Costa CEO Blames Captain for Wreck
"It is human error here," Costa chairman and CEO Pier Luigi Foschi told reporters dialed into a conference call Monday morning. "The captain did not follow the authorized route that is used by Costa ships very frequently."
Rescue operations were halted Monday after the Costa Concordia shifted in rough seas and fears mounted that any further shifts could cause some of the 500,000 gallons of fuel on board to leak into the pristine waters off the island of Giglio that are a protected dolphin sanctuary.
The confirmed death toll rose to six after searchers found the body of a male passenger wearing a life vest in the corridor of the above-water portion of the ship. Sixteen people are unaccounted for, including two American passengers.
Chances that they would be found alive three days after the ship was speared by the reef and toppled to one side grew slimmer.
The Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, was arrested and jailed early Saturday, a few hours after Friday's night shipwreck a few yards off Giglio, a tiny island of fishermen and tourist hotels near the Tuscan coast in west central Italy.
Prosecutors who are investigating the captain for manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck stepped up their scathing criticism of his conduct.
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Hi Alan! Captain Francesco Schettino is the 1st to leave the ship while a Filipino cook is the last one to leave the ship making sure that everyone is safe and no one is left behind. It is ironic that the highest paid employee leaves first and the lowest paid is working hard to save the tourists.