Wisatawan dari Perancis, Italia, Jerman dan Inggris menyelamatkan diri dengan menggunakan sekoci ketika kapal menabrak karang setelah dua jam meninggalkan pelabuhan. Beberapa penumpang melompat ke laut dan berenang ke pantai di dekat pulau Giglio, lepas pantai Tuscan.
Seorang penumpang menceritakan saat itu sekitar pukul 20.00 waktu setempat, terjadi ledakan keras saat penumpang sedang menikmati makan malam. Melalui pengeras suara, petugas kapal mengatakan kapal mengalami gangguan listrik sebelum akhirnya meminta semua orang mengenakan pelampung.
"Itu seperti kapal Titanic. Anda sebaiknya mengatakan langsung bahwa kapal itu menabrak sesuatu dan bukan dengan mengatakan terjadi gangguan listrik," kata seorang penumpang wanita.
Salah seorang penumpang lainnya, Fabio Costa mengatakan setelah alarm darurat berbunyi, orang-orang mulai panik dan saling mendorong untuk ke dalam sekoci. "Banyak orang jatuh menuruni tangga dan terluka," terangnya.
Perusahaan Costa Crociera yang memiliki kapal Costa Concordia mengatakan belum mengetahui penyebab terjadinya insiden itu dan penyelidikan masih sedang berlangsung.
| Costa Concordia | |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Costa Concordia |
| Owner: | Carnival Corporation & plc |
| Operator: | Costa Cruises |
| Port of registry: | Genoa, Italy |
| Route: | Western Mediterranean |
| Ordered: | 19 January 2004 |
| Builder: | Fincantieri Sestri Ponente, Italy |
| Cost: | €450 million £372 million[1] US$570 million[1] |
| Yard number: | 6122 |
| Launched: | 2 September 2005 |
| Christened: | 7 July 2006[2] |
| Acquired: | 30 June 2006 |
| Maiden voyage: | 14 July 2006 |
| In service: | July 2006 |
| Out of service: | 13 January 2012 |
| Identification: | |
| Status: | Partially capsized off Isola del Giglio, Italy |
| Notes: | [3][4] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Concordia class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 114,500 GT |
| Displacement: | 51,387 tonnes |
| Length: | 290.20 m (952 ft 1 in) |
| Beam: | 35.50 m (116 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 8.20 m (26 ft 11 in) |
| Decks: | 17 |
| Installed power: | 6 × Wärtsilä diesel engines, 75,600 kilowatts (101,400 hp) |
| Speed: | service: 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph) maximum: 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
| Capacity: | 4,300 passengers |
| Crew: | 1,100 |
| Notes: | [5][6] |
As divers searched areas of the ship that were now underwater, there was some concern for their safety if the vessel shifted.
‘It is a very delicate operation because the ship might move or sink farther,’ said a spokesman for Italy’s coastguard. ‘This could endanger the divers, trapping them inside the wreck.’
Many of the passengers were sitting down to eat in the Concordia’s restaurants when they heard a loud bang followed by a ‘terrible groaning’ noise.
Diners were instructed to remain seated even as the ship began listing. According to the captain, the ship had an electrical problem. But although it soon became clear that the problem was far worse, passengers continued to be told for a good 45 minutes that there was a simple technical problem.
Even when the situation became clearer crew members delayed lowering the lifeboats even though the ship was listing badly.
‘We had to scream at the controllers to release the boats from the side,’ said Mike van Dijk, a 54-year-old from Pretoria, South Africa.
‘We were standing in the corridors and they weren’t allowing us to get on to the boats. It was a scramble, an absolute scramble.’
Robert Elcombe, 50, from Colchester but who now lives in Australia, said he and his wife Tracy got into a life boat – but were ordered out again when staff said it was ‘only a generator problem’ that could be fixed.
He said: ‘But as we got back inside the ship it tilted so steeply that I had to grab hold of people to save them as they flew down the corridor.
'It was real Titanic stuff. We lost everything: passports, luggage, money. But at least we’re alive, unlike some people.’
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