Friday, January 20, 2012


2 comments:

HotmfWax said...

A “flash” message received in the Kremlin today from the Northern Fleet Command, whose Russian Navy flotilla is in the Mediterranean Sea after having just left their Syrian port of call, reports that the anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko has detected the firing of a torpedo having the “unmistakable signature” of one fired from a kilo-class submarine near Isola del Giglio a popular vacation island about 18 miles off the Italian Tuscan coast.

Within 10 minutes from the detection of this torpedo being fired, this “flash” message continues, a distress call was received from a cruise ship nearing the port of Isola del Giglio Costa named Costa Concordia [photo of sinking top left], and owned by owned by Genoa-based Costa Cruises, stating that it had been “attacked” and was in “immediate danger of capsizing.”

Reports from the London Telegraph about this attack state that the Costa Concordia’s passengers' dinner was “interrupted by a loud boom around 8 pm local time” with an initial announcement claiming that the ship was suffering an electrical failure, ordering everyone onboard to don life-jackets, and appearing to confirm this “flash” message of it being an attack.

The Northern Fleet Command further states that after the initial distress call from Costa Concordia it was ordered by the US Naval Air Station Sigonella (located in Sicily and known as “The Hub of the Med”) to cease open broadcasts and, instead, use NATO encrypted communications only. [Note: Due to past attacks on cruise liners carrying international passengers, all Western ships of this type are required to carry NATO encrypted radios.]

Most disturbing about this “flash” message, however, is its stating that the only known submarine currently suspected to be in the Mediterranean Sea is one, or possibly two, possessing kilo-class torpedoes belong to the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN).


There's something not right with this story.

I'm surprised nobody has linked this to the alleged conspiracy story of an EMP attack on the "Carnival Splendor" just over a year ago.

In this instance it looks to me like the ship has been deliberately grounded in order to stop it going to the bottom.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...-disaster.html

In this day and age, with all the modern navigational aids, I find it incredulous that this could happen to a ship of this class.

There must be something more to this story.

HotmfWax said...

Captain Schettino is being pilloried by the corporate press. Even within their coverage you can see how the story is twisted. They are reporting that they made an unscheduled turn in an attempt to sail close to Isola del Giglio to impress a former captain who it turns out wasn't even there anyway. In the text they imply the ship was holed at her resting place. They leave out the fine details. In the diagram below Costa Concordia struck a reef. The captain says it wasn't charted. At that point we have an explosion, a power failure and a loss of control. I suspect the Captain fully realized his ship was sinking and did what sailors have done since sail - beach her.
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