The commander of the cruiser 'Costa Concordia', Francesco Schettino, pretended in his conversations with the Captain of Ports remained on board when they had left him and when he had just begun the evacuation of passengers, as is clear from the dialogue held night of the accident recorded by the newspaper "Il Corriere della Sera '.

His first conversation with the Captain of the Port Coast Guard occurred at 0.32 hours on Saturday, when, according to witnesses, the commander had abandoned the stricken vessel. The agents of the Coast Guard asked how many passengers were on board and he said he had been evacuated some 4,000 people had left when just cruising around 40.

"Now back to the bridge (control)," said Schettino, before explaining that he had gone to stern, the back of the boat, to "know what was happening." Are you alone? "I asked from the Captain , to which he replied that he believed he was alone.

At 0.42 hours get the second telephone conversation, as recorded by the newspaper "Il Corriere della Sera ', in which the staff of the operating room of the Captain asked how many people should be evacuated yet. "I called the company and tell me they are a hundred people," said the commander of the 'Costa Concordia', when, the newspaper said the Italian, the evacuation process was underway. "I'm coordinated," Schettino said, before admitting that was not on board the cruise. "We can not be on board because the ship was' apoptosis' (sinking by the stern, the back. '" "We left the ship," he admitted.

At that time, the OOW the Captain asked if he had jumped ship and Schettino said denying though, on another call later acknowledged that he was aboard the ship, on receiving the "order" of the officer directing the process evacuation and find out how many women and children remained in the ship

Subsequently, the duty officer who had been conveyed located several "bodies," Schettino said what asking how many deaths had been confirmed. "That should tell me you. What do you do?. Want to go home?. Go upstairs and tell us what can be done, how many people are and what they need," said the officer, who Schettino said that was still pretending to board: "Okay. I'm going."