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1. Costa Concordia Tragedy: 'Command To Abandon Ship Came Too Late' Dancer Says

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Tue Jan 17, 2012, 02:43 PM

Jan 2012

"We waited for the abandon ship (instruction).

"We waited for it to be called and it was finally called after some of the life boats were deployed. We had reached such a tilt that we couldn't deploy any more life rafts or life boats on the port side so we had to run round to the starboard side to get onto a life boat.

"Some of us went one way, some of us went the other. The people who didn't go the way I went didn't make it to a life boat, they had to swim.

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/16/costa-concordia-cruise-ship-tragedy-abandon-ship_n_1208688.html

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