Cruise Ship Pulls A Titanic

A cruise ship pulled a Titanic last night and it wasn't funny either.  The Costa Concordia ship crashed into the island of Giglio, Italy  late Friday night  and tore a massive hole in the ship causing the closest thing we have seen seen since  Titanic.  There were over four thousand people on board and a large majority of them were rescued but not because of great evacuation skills but just out of help from other ships, Coast Guards, and God by Himself.  There are three bodies found and 69 people unaccounted for as of now.

Here are a couple comments from some survivors on the cruise ship speaking about the lack of good evacuation tactics.

"It was so unorganized, our evacuation drill was scheduled for 5 p.m.," said Melissa Goduti, 28, of Wallingford, Connecticut, who had set out on the cruise of the Mediterranean hours earlier. "We had joked 'What if something had happened today?'"

"Have you seen 'Titanic?' That's exactly what it was," said Valerie Ananias, 31, a schoolteacher from Los Angeles who was traveling with her sister and parents on the first of two cruises around the Mediterranean. They all bore dark red bruises on their knees from the desperate crawl they endured along nearly vertical hallways and stairwells, trying to reach rescue boats.

via Ship aground off Italy; 3 bodies found, 69 missing - Yahoo! News.