The Guardian
Passengers from the Costa Concordia shared tales of their trauma at a preliminary hearinginto the causes of the cruise ship disaster as damning new details about its captain emerged. Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest after steering the ship on to rocks on the island of Giglio on 13 January, was not wearing his glasses that night, the ship’s first officer has told investigators. “He had forgotten them,” said Ciro Ambrosio. “He asked me a number of times to adjust the scale of the radar because he couldn’t see it well.”
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