Cruise disaster: Costa Concordia captain under house arrest - Telegraph
A junior officer said in a statement: “For the first 40 minutes after the impact the ship stayed upright. We could easily have lowered the lifeboats from both sides. We would have reached dry land without even getting our feet wet.”
In a letter to Costa Cruises, he accused the cruise operator of "washing its hands" of survivors of the disaster, leaving them "destitute and traumatised".
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