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Bonus Episode 3: "She's Going Down!" Promo

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Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

On January 13th 2012, the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia struck an underwater rock after the captain made some extremely poor decisions. Much of this disaster could have been avoided if the captain had told the passengers of the ship what was going on, but instead he lied to everyone around him.  It was the worst cruise disaster since the Titanic.

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0:00.0

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0:04.5

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0:10.3

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0:16.0

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0:19.0

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0:29.2

the ads. Mario Pellegrini was the's deputy mayor and he volunteered to go onto the ship and find the ship's captain.

0:37.0

So he took a lifeboat over to the ship and climbed up a rope ladder to get on board himself.

0:43.0

And he was just from Giulio.

0:44.7

So he's like, I'm gonna get on board the ship

0:46.4

and do something about this.

0:47.9

But he quickly realized that doing what he set out to do

0:51.1

would be impossible amid the chaos on this ship.

0:55.4

It was everything from people screaming and running, crowding, people laughing because

1:00.1

they didn't know how bad their situation actually was.

1:03.1

So it was absolute chaos.

1:05.8

By 12.18 a.m.

1:07.9

the ship began turning over.

1:09.9

Thousands of tons of water swirled inside the ship as the submerged glass windows broke under pressure,

1:17.0

which led to more water rushing in and as it moved through the ship it pulled people down and this was the most fatal

1:24.8

moment of the entire disaster. I can't imagine the fear that people must have

1:29.4

experienced in this. Yeah the people who are laughing aren't laughing anymore. No, seriously. I mean, the ship was actually like completely tipping over. So it's horrifying to think about. And so close to land, too. Yeah, I know know the people who had the false sense of security

1:44.9

I would totally been there.

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