âDe Falco: âThis is De Falco speaking from Livorno. Am I speaking with the commander?â âSchettino: âYes. Good evening, Cmdr. De Falco.â âDe Falco: âPlease tell me your name.â âSchettino: âIâm Cmdr. Schettino, commander.â âDe Falco: âSchettino? Listen Schettino. There are people trapped on board. Now you go with your boat under the prow on the starboard side. There is a pilot ladder. You will climb that ladder and go on board. You go on board and then you will tell me how many people there are. Is that clear? Iâm recording this conversation, Cmdr. Schettino...â âSchettino: âCommander, let me tell you one thing...â âDe Falco: âSpeak up! Put your hand in front of the microphone and speak more loudly, is that clear?â âSchettino: âIn this moment, the boat is tipping...â âDe Falco: âI understand that, listen, there are people that are coming down the pilot ladder of the prow. You go up that pilot ladder, get on that ship and tell me how many people are still on board. And what they need. Is that clear? You need to tell me if there are children, women or people in need of assistance. And tell me the exact number of each of these categories. Is that clear? Listen Schettino, that you saved yourself from the sea, but I am going to... Iâm going to make sure you get in trouble. ...I am going to make you pay for this. Go on board, (expletive)!â âSchettino: âCommander, please...â âDe Falco: âNo, please. You now get up and go on board. They are telling me that on board there are still...â âSchettino: âI am here with the rescue boats, I am here, I am not going anywhere, I am here...â âDe Falco: âWhat are you doing, commander?â âSchettino: âI am here to coordinate the rescue...â âDe Falco: âWhat are you coordinating there? Go on board! Coordinate the rescue from aboard the ship. Are you refusing?â âSchettino: âNo, I am not refusing.â âDe Falco: âAre you refusing to go aboard commander? Can you tell me the reason why you are not going?â âSchettino: âI am not going because the other lifeboat is stopped.â âDe Falco: âYou go aboard. It is an order. Donât make any more excuses. You have declared âabandon ship.â Now I am in charge. You go on board! Is that clear? Do you hear me? Go, and call me when you are aboard. My air rescue crew is there.â âSchettino: âWhere are your rescuers?â âDe Falco: âMy air rescue is on the prow. Go. There are already bodies, Schettino.â âSchettino: âHow many bodies are there?â âDe Falco: âI donât know. I have heard of one. You are the one who has to tell me how many there are. Christ.â âSchettino: âBut do you realize it is dark and here we canât see anything...â âDe Falco: âAnd so what? You want go home, Schettino? It is dark and you want to go home? Get on that prow of the boat using the pilot ladder and tell me what can be done, how many people there are and what their needs are. Now!â âSchettino: â...I am with my second in command.â âDe Falco: âSo both of you go up then ... You and your second go on board now. Is that clear?â âSchettino: âCommander, I want to go on board, but it is simply that the other boat here ... there are other rescuers. It has stopped and is waiting...â âDe Falco: âIt has been an hour that you have been telling me the same thing. Now, go on board. Go on board! And then tell me immediately how many people there are there.â âSchettino: âOK, commanderâ âDe Falco: âGo, immediately!â ___
don't hear googoots often, that is the dialect of my family in a section of Siracusa, Ortygia What a terribly sad event for all those passengers.