Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ill-fated Italian cruise ship, the Costa Concordia on the ni

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ill-fated Italian cruise ship, the Costa Concordia on the night she hit a reef 300 metres from the shore of an island and partially sank, is in court trying to get his job back.
Schettino, who still awaits his trial on multiple charges including manslaughter and abandoning his ship, is in a court near Naples this week, not far from his home, to protest his firing and to try and get his job back.
He was fired from by Costa Cruises and has been on house arrest since the tragedy, which took the lives of 32 passengers and crew. When asked prior to the closed-door session if he felt he would again command a ship Schettino, who has always maintained he helped save lives and was not responsible for hitting the reef, told Italian journalist "Yes, certainly."
The Costa Concordia hit a reef Jan. 13, 2012 in the waters of Italy's Tuscan Bay 300 meters from the shore of the island of Giglio, when Schettino gave the orders to go too close to shore. He did so to 'salute' a retired airline prices Costa Cruises captain. Upon hitting the reef, the ship listed and partially sank. Sixty-five percent of the ship remains underwater.
airline prices In transcripts from the bridge that night, released in September, he is heard telling his crew to sail toward the island to perform the salute . Later, airline prices in the midst of the tragedy he calls the Costa Cruises emergency center and tells the officer on duty, Roberto Ferrarini: "Roberto, I fucked up!" He also tells Ferrarini he passed "close by and I hit shallow water with the stern." Since then, Schettino has claimed the reef he hit was not charted.
After giving the abandon ship order over an hour after hitting the reef, that despite pleas from his crew to give it earlier, he calls his wife Fabiola at their home. "Fabi', my career as a captain airline prices is over. We hit a reef, the ship is listing airline prices but I performed airline prices a great maneuver; everything is under control," he says. "Don't worry, let's forget all this sailing and we can start another job."
The 114,500 ton ship remains off the coast of Giglio but is being refloated by Titan Salvage, an American company, along with Micoperi, an Italian company, who plan to tow it to a port to be scrapped sometime this year.