The tragedy of the Costa Concordia off as usual journalistic chatter. It crowns the hero Falco, but could remember the Commander Philip Francis Queeg.
The tragedy of the Costa Concordia off as usual journalistic chatter. It crowns the hero Falco, but could remember the Commander Philip Francis Queeg.The technological equipment of a modern vessel is completely able to avoid rocks or obstacles that arise during the voyage. Not only on a large cruise ship, but also for a small pleasure boat.Among these gadgets is the Satellite Navigation, Global Positioning System, a tool that can provide the location of the vessel, the best route to work, even to calculate the time required to reach the destination.This takes advantage of GPS signals from satellites orbiting the Earth. In association with radar and sonar teconologie these have radically changed the way to go to sea, sending retired compass and sextant and making navigation safer.Then there is the AIS, Automatic Identification System, which, as they do or air traffic control systems, monitors the movement of all ships above 300 tons in all the seas around the world.Can not be explained then as the ship may have struck the coast a rock, going for much more than 17 knots, a remarkable speed for a giant 112-thousand tons. Unless the bridge were not all under the influence of narcotics is incomprehensible how the staff has not noticed the presence of the obstacle cursed.The question we must answer is this lengthy investigation and will be necessary to understand what really happened on the bridge command on the night of the sinking.And above all you must find out what orders have been given to the captain of the leaders of the Costa Concordia after the impact, as it is known that in such cases is the company to define the strategy to be adopted and not the master of the ship. At stake are hundreds of millions of euros and, above all, the management of the legal consequences of the disaster.But sadly, as happens now with concern the timeliness 'journalists' have all the answers in my pocket, a judge ordered the arrest in less than 12 hours without the facts have only one certain and unequivocal evidence, public opinion is ready to erect the scaffold to execute the "coward," the commander Schettino.And then there's the hero of the recorded conversation. This is the Commander Gregory De Falco, in a situation of complete chaos as it may be a wreck with almost 5000 people to be helped, Schettino orders to go on a ship tilted to say how many people are still on board. "I said if there are children, women or people with care needs."A 'command' surreal, because nobody in the world, who was on board the Concordia, of a lifeboat or in any other place she could never answer a question like that. Since the registration covers very well the voice of Schettino, sound and perfect, but De Falco, for no apparent reason, with a deep concern to his partner aggression to "speak out loud." A collaborative attitude is not certain, reassurance and solidarity at a time, however dramatic.In short, the alleged hero de Falco, who at that time was on the scene of the wreck, but in an office in Livorno, looked more like the captain Queeg, played by Humphrey Bogart in the famous film 'The Caine Mutiny' that a coordinator detached and hand them requires patient as an extreme emergency situations.Queeg is a man for whom the need to prove his authority to his subordinates in his opinion inept than the reality, to the point of causing the revolt of the crew of the Caine.This is why the conversation between Falco and Schettino do not reveal anything heroic. There is a part of an officer who attacked a colleague in an obvious state of shock and the other the master of a ship in the middle of confusion, unable to counter the misplaced tone of his party and without the strength necessary to point out that in the chaos of a naval disaster nervousness and notices are not useful for solving problems.On the judicial level, then the handcuffs were easy once characterized the activity of a magistrate.Assuming you do not know based on what he could confirm that Schettino 'flee abroad' has been ordered his arrest with an amazing speed. Although even a layman knows as inchiesa of a shipwreck is complicated thing, the prosecutor of Grosseto, Francis Verus, he immediately found an alleged offender to start the nation's prisons already overcrowded and almost unmanageable.Fortunately, the Italian justice system, to the detriment of all, find the strength to think and a few hours from the order of the prosecutor, the investigating judge of Grosseto, Valeria Montesarchio, the captain sent home at least under house arrest.Regardless of the material responsibilities of the disaster, the sinking of the Costa Concordia has highlighted the continuing inability of the media to inform the public properly. And this handicap is becoming the leading Italian fault, because the press campaigns and shout forcaiole, demagoguery, and the exaltation of some gestures and the demonization of others does not allow the elaboration of a correct view of reality and the definition of responsibilities real.The handcuffs galore, finally, justice does not help. Why is not the pre-trial detention to restore dignity to victims, but the penalties are fair and discounted in civil prisons to demonstrate the legal culture of a country.However, howling at the moon, who knows why, according to some copies, and allows you to see the army of journalists werewolves grows more each day.
