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Costa Concordia 17th Body

First Posted: 01/28/2012 11:43 am Updated: 01/28/2012 11:51 am

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Divers searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia off Italy's Tuscan coast have found the body of a woman, bringing the number of dead to 17.

The discovery came as salvage operations to pump out thousands of tonnes of fuel from the grounded cruise ship were delayed by rough seas.

Choppy waters partially dislodged a barge owned by a Dutch salvage firm that was hitched to the Concordia's hull to serve as a staging platform for the fuel-removal operation.

The company had intended to begin pumping fuel out Saturday, as concerns grow that a leak could wreak havoc on a protected marine sanctuary.

Paola Pagliara, from Italy's civil protection forecast centre, said weather conditions off the island of Giglio, where the Concordia ran aground Jan. 13, are likely to remain rough through the weekend.

More than 4,200 passengers and crew members were on board when the vessel slammed into some underwater rocks off the shore of the island.

The crash is under investigation, while uncertainty also surrounds the operation to salvage the ship, which weighs over 100,000 tonnes, or more than twice what the Titanic did.

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In this picture taken on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 and made available on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia lays on its starboard side after it ran aground off the coast of the Isola del Giglio island, Italy, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to the nearby Isola del Giglio island. About 1,000 Italian passengers were onboard, as well as more than 500 Germans, about 160 French and about 1,000 crew members. (AP)
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Divers searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia off Italy's Tuscan coast have found the body of a woman, bringing the number of dead to 17. The discovery came as salvage operations to pump out th...
Divers searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia off Italy's Tuscan coast have found the body of a woman, bringing the number of dead to 17. The discovery came as salvage operations to pump out th...
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03:57 PM on 01/29/2012
Costa Concordia victim died after she gave life jacket to elderly man

A young Peruvian waitress whose body was recovered from the shipwrecked Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio has been hailed a heroine.

2:23PM GMT 29 Jan 2012

Erika Fani Soriamolina's body was found by divers on the sixth deck of the vessel wearing the ship's uniform but no life jacket.

Witnesses said Soriamolina had helped dozens of terrified passengers into lifeboats on the night of the disaster before giving the life jacket to an elderly man.

A tourism graduate, Soriamolina was working on only her third cruise on the Costa Concordia .

The recovery of the young woman's body ended a desperate search by her parents and sister Madeleine who were among the family members of passengers and crew waiting for news of their loved ones on Giglio.

On Saturday the body of a woman found several days ago was identified as German passenger Inge Shall.

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One of the scientists monitoring the ship, Professor Riccardo Fanti from the University of Florence, said the ship's latest movement was of serious concern. Until now the ship has been moving 3 to 4 millimetres an hour.
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03:38 PM on 01/29/2012
Costa Concordia will take 10 months to be removed

The Costa Concordia cruise ship will take up to 10 months to removed from Italy's coast, according to officials, as rough seas off the Tuscan coast forced the suspension of recovery operations.
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03:34 PM on 01/29/2012
Now they are claiming false deaths to put even more pain on this tragedy....

Trio of Hungarian fraudsters arrested after they 'tried to use Costa Concordia disaster to fake death of woman'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091298/Costa-Concordia-disaster-Trio-Hungarian-fraudsters-tried-fake-death-woman.html#ixzz1ksiDZfvT
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belldn3
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02:36 PM on 01/29/2012
This whole debacle is just heinous. My condolences to the families of the victims.
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02:36 PM on 01/29/2012
This captain did not suddenly develope another personality .Somebody hired him and aloud him to be the Captain of the ship.What were his qualifications to do this job when hired.I have not seen anything on his background.
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03:11 PM on 01/29/2012
I posted about that.... keep reading the posts.
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05:57 PM on 01/29/2012
i missed it apparently. i thought i had said this before,but i may have been having dinner
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old mort
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02:33 PM on 01/29/2012
Cruise ships have a rep...You either get sick to death eating the food they put out for you. You mysteriously disappear overboard and are never found, or they run aground like whats happen just now and a few times within the last five years or you run into bad weather and are injured by the ship being tossed around. Take a look at youtube once. I wont be taking my wife on a cruise anytime soon...
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TheAnitQuasar
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02:16 PM on 01/29/2012
Hard to feel sympathy for a man who abandons the ship. Who ever heard of a captain bailing and leaving all of his passengers behind?
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02:21 PM on 01/29/2012
How about BUSHY-BOY?
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02:56 PM on 01/29/2012
What does that mean?
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02:04 PM on 01/29/2012
I hope they can get this tragedy wrapped up soon. It must be a constant source of pain for those still missing loved ones & those who survived or lost loved ones. Italians will have this image seared into their memory for a long time I am sure. RIP to the victims & Gods peace to those who made it.
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01:58 PM on 01/29/2012
I thought this was supposed to be about the latest victim? Even though that was the headline, there was hardly anything about her. Huff Po writers..could you at least make an effort to make you article match your headline?
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SCarolinian
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01:50 PM on 01/29/2012
I have been on two cruises and one was no better than the other. Once they get your money, they don't care about your safety. I had a heat stroke in Grenada and the ship's doctor did nothing for me. A young American doctor was on the ship on his honeymoon and he took care of me. Then we had a hurricane and had to stay an extra day. To keep from paying money to pull in port, they pulled into the shipping side of San Juan and told us we would get a paper under our door if we were flying out that night. We didn't get one but they announced our name so I went down to check. They gave us 1 hour to get our things ready to fly out or they would throw our things over board as the ship was going out the next day. (MONEY) We ignored them, went to bed and flew out with no problem the next day. I have not been on a cruise since then and don't intend to. We have so many beautiful things to see in our own country. The ships are all dangerous and the employees are treated worse than the paying people.
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01:38 PM on 01/29/2012
A little bit about the real hero of the Concordia. If you can't click on the link below..copy and paste it.

Captain De Falco: Would-Be Hero Of Concordia Sinking Saw His Orders Lost At Sea.

By now, the world knows Captain Schettino, accused of steering the Costa Concordia liner into shallow waters, then abandoning the passengers of his sinking ship. But there is another Captain, Gregorio De Falco, who desperately tried to order Schettino to do his duty.
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01:17 PM on 01/29/2012
I've said if before and I'll keep repeating it until it happens...I think there should be no trial for that captain..its evident enough he was the only one responsible, causing that ship to go down..they need to make a yard arm with a rope and HANG him for all the world to see as an example of what happens when you cause death...thank you...nuff said!!!!!
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01:30 PM on 01/29/2012
if he was in the u.s.a. the aclu along with the liberals would be making him the victim,and put him in club med with the rest of the death row lunatics,they dont care about the real victims.
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madtexican
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01:35 PM on 01/29/2012
Lucky for us, he is not in the US.
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02:14 PM on 01/29/2012
Italy has long since abolished the death penalty. You need to take the captain out into the middle of the ocean, away from any country's economic zone, on a third country's boat, and execute him there. Or better yet, get the Mafia, who are in Italy and know how to do this type of job, to do it.
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12:23 PM on 01/29/2012
I use to think how great it would be to take a cruise on one of these ships but after all the accidents and people getting sick over the pas few years I guess not.
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01:10 PM on 01/29/2012
you're probably OK if you DON'T go Carnival....worst on the seas
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vieragam
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01:15 PM on 01/29/2012
Try Celebrity Cruises...lovely. Carnival has always had a reputation as a young people's party cruise. So we never went on one.
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12:18 PM on 01/29/2012
There must have been someone else on the ship's bridge who could either refute or back up that tale the captain has told. Funny how the ship listed and he just fell out the window and into a boat....UH-HUH...
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02:37 PM on 01/29/2012
Ther is, smile....I posted it it.
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03:30 PM on 01/29/2012
There is, smile. I posted it below.
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12:11 PM on 01/29/2012
at least these bodies being found are going to recieve a proper burial---think how many people went
down with the ship and never recovered---
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12:41 PM on 01/29/2012
Well,Though I feel your sentiments thankfully (as the reports over the last few days have indicated) you should read the story a bit more.....
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bevesbasic
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12:57 PM on 01/29/2012
The Costa Concordia went aground in shallow water--The TITANIC went -- What ??
1-2 miles down ??---NO chance for recovery
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01:32 PM on 01/29/2012
yes our poor men in ww2 in planes and ships never recovered god rest their souls
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02:17 PM on 01/29/2012
And all of those people who received burials at sea.
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