On Friday (13/1/12) the US owned, Italian operated cruise ship the Costa Concordia struck rocks off the Italian island of Giglio holing it below the water line. This left the crew of the ship with two choices. They could immediately evacuate the ship and hope they could achieve that before the ship sank. Alternatively they could try and head for shore before evacuating the ship and hope they reached it before the ship sank. In the end they went with the latter option and more or less made it to shore grounding the ship allowing around 4,400 crew and passengers to be rescued. At the time of writing (16:40 on 16/1/12) six bodies have been recovered and sixteen people are still unaccounted for.
As soon as I heard about the incident I decided that it was just a genuine accident and started to filter it out. Either the ship went too close to the shore or seismic activity created a previously uncharted rock formation. I've avoided commenting on the incident so far because I think it is far too early to start apportioning blame. That and the whole thing got the Brits so confused they just started randomly throwing stories about Royal yachts at it. In fact I only mention it now because countless witnesses have said it was just like the Titanic. What they mean is that it was just like the film Titanic which raises the question of whether I'm the only person to have seen the Poseidon Adventure or more appropriately Beyond the Poseidon Adventure?
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