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By Angela Greiling Keane Passengers aboard Costa Concordia were repeatedly told not to panic or abandon the sinking vessel off Italy’s coast because the trouble was “generator failure,” a survivor told US lawmakers. Divya Sharma told a House panel today she was eating dinner about four hours after boarding the cruise ship with her husband, Sameer, to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. The couple from Medford, Mass., said they decided to end their dinner, step over broken glass dishes and retrieve life jackets that Divya had spotted in their cabin closet, ignoring the crew’s assurances that all was fine.
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