Costa Concordia Captain to Release Book About 2012 Disaster

Francesco Schettino, the previous captain of the Coast Concordia, has written concerning the 2012 catastrophe in a brand new 600-page e-book that guarantees to provide his model of the story.

Francesco Schettino was in control of the Costa Concordia when it wrecked alongside Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, killing 32 folks folks. In February, Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in jail after an Italian courtroom discovered him responsible of a number of counts of manslaughter, inflicting a shipwreck and abandoning ship with passengers nonetheless onboard. Schettino has remained free as he appeals the conviction.

The e-book, referred to as “Le Verità Sommerse” (translating to “The Truth Submerged”), was co-written with the Italian journalist Vittoriana Abate and introduced Wednesday throughout an occasion at Schettino’s hometown of Meta, Italy, close to Naples.

The e-book will function a memoir for the previous Captain, detailing his life earlier than, throughout and after the catastrophe. Schettino hopes the e-book will set the document straight about what actually occurred that night time by means of his personal “minute by minute” account and proof introduced throughout trial.

Since the catastrophe, Schettino has turn into the article of ridicule within the media after he claimed to have tripped and fell into the lifeboat and refused Coast Guard orders to return to the ship in a now well-known audio recording launched in courtroom.

During his trial, Schettino’s protection workforce argued that he prevented a good worse catastrophe by steering the ship near shore because it sank.

The wreck Costa Concordia was salvaged in July 2014 and is at present being dismantled in Genoa, Italy.