They never made it back to port:
"Furor after Concordia captain gives seminar" Associated Press August 07, 2014
ROME — A university professor is facing a disciplinary hearing after inviting the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner to lecture students on emergency procedures.
The dean of Rome’s Sapienza University, Luigi Frati, voiced anger Wednesday at the professor’s decision to invite Captain Francesco Schettino to give a seminar, calling it an ‘‘inappropriate and unworthy choice.’’
The university dismissed the ‘‘pathetic excuses’’ offered by the professor, Vincenzo Mastronardi, when confronted by the dean.
Schettino is being tried for manslaughter, causing the shipwreck, and abandoning ship over the January 2012 capsize of the Concordia, in which 32 people died.
Italy’s education minister called the news ‘‘disconcerting,’’ while the prosecutor in Tuscany who is arguing for Schettino’s guilt expressed indignation also at reports that Schettino had been awarded a diploma.
The Florence daily La Nazione reported that Schettino gave a nearly two-hour lecture to criminal science master’s candidates last month, including reference to panic management.
Schettino, through his lawyer, defended the seminar, saying it was ‘‘a technical intervention on the basis of my knowledge and professionalism acquired over many years of service.’’
His lawyer, Cataldo Calabretta, criticized ‘‘an unacceptable attempt to discredit Schettino, who has been subjected for a long time already to unmerited media attacks.’’
The Concordia was towed from its Tuscan graveyard last month to Genoa’s port where it will be turned into scrap. During a search of the ship Wednesday, authorities found some bone fragments that they said could belong to the one person still unaccounted for from the tragedy: Indian waiter Russel Rebello.
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I'm current on Italy, and never mind Obama's war refugees crossing the Meditteranean or all the other problems Italy has at the moment. I'm being served this by the BG. No wonder it's over.
