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Of course, as always, we are very excited to read more ...

Currently, the company owning the ship offers all travelers a compensation of 14,000 euros for "closing the incident" and reimbursement of all medical expenses and travel immediately to the victims and their families. Since the tragedy happened in Italy, and that most victims are European, the company has Bassée ESSENTIALLY on European law for the written agreement. You should know that the French law for example does not at all "class action" in the U.S., and go to trial will last for years for a result not necessarily more advantageous because many european countries are signatories of the Treaty of Athens. Please note that the amount offered varies from 11,000 to 14,000 euros for the victims (between 14,476 and 18,424 U.S. dollars), therefore it is far from $ 50,000...

The following video (in French, sorry) is interesting to see to show the progress of the sinking of the passenger point of view. http://www.letelegramme.com/ig/generales/france-monde/europe/costa-concordia-une-famille-a-filme-de-l-interieur-la-soiree-du-naufrage-27-01-2012-1580610.php In summary: Initially, staff hotelier is also panicked (as passengers), caused by striking the rock. Moment of hesitation inside the restaurant, with a staff that invites passengers to return to their cabins. Power failure and at the same time reassuring announcement of the ship's deck to the attention of staff and passengers for their stated that there is no need to worry. In my opinion, the ship stops at that point on a rocky area (where he is now), and it is then that the evacuation of the ship is slowly starting. As you can see, he did not really lying at the beginning of the evacuation, he "looks" only one side. For more events, we will not see on the video: More the waves clap on the hull exposed, more the ship leans on the other side, making the end is lying on one side the boat. Remember that the ship's bottom is not flat, so just a slight slope so that the ship trapped by rocks looks more and more on one side. From personal experience I can tell you indicated that you see regularly unfortunately large vessels approached too close to shore, malgrés the vigilance of the authorities and calls to order. Most recently, France has a ship stranded on a nature reserve because the captain decided to leave a port just before a big storm, is sheltered behind a party island, but its anchor did not hold the and suddenly it began to storm drifted without its engines can not prevent the completion of his course on a beach ... http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK_Bremen