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This is Cruise Radio, a special edition.

Costa Concordia, Tragedy in the Mediterranean.

Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker. Check out our website at cruiseradio.net.

First, we'd like to welcome aboard a new affiliate to Cruise Radio, the Overseas Radio Network.

Very, very happy to be a part of their network. On this show, two, not one, but two maritime attorneys.

We'll have Jerry Hamilton and a return guest, Jim Walker. And we'll have Bob Umbdenstock from the Resolve Marine Group. But first, Stuart, you're on the cruise guy. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Hey, man. All right, Stuart, as of right now, Monday night, January 23rd, what's the number of confirmed deaths and missing? Well, as we heard, it's actually, unfortunately, up to 15 and as far as unfound, you're missing at this point.

It's still over 20.

This unregistered passenger thing, what exactly is that?

Well, they're claiming that there were passengers that were on board the ship that should not have been. And, you know, I've never,

I mean, I don't know, they call them Stowways. How do you, you know, how does an unregistered

passenger get on the ship? Where were they going to stay? I mean, something doesn't make sense.

The reason why they're bringing this to light now is that apparently one of the passengers,

one of the people that they

found was not on any of the passenger list or the crew list, and they just don't know who this

person was, so they're assuming that there may have been more.

There's been stories of Costa Cruises offering passengers a 30% future cruise discount.

Is this offer accurate?

Well, unfortunately, Doug and Matt, that this is, this

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