It was the height of irony as the Costa Concordia started going down.
A passenger has revealed that the Celine Dion song “My Heart Will Go On,” made famous by the 1997 film “Titanic,” was playing in one of the ill-fated cruise ship’s restaurants at the very moment the ship’s hull was ripped open.
Swissman Yannick Sgaga tells the Tribune de Geneve newspaper that he and his brother were dining when the Concordia struck rocks near the Italian island of Giglio, starting an evacuation that Sgaga called “a demonstration of incompetence, recklessness and irresponsibility.”
“The images from the film ‘Titanic’ are more realistic than you’d think,” Sgaga told the Tribune. “I couldn’t get them out of my head.”
It’s unclear in which of the Concordia’s restaurants Sgaga and his brother were dining or if any other passengers heard the sickeningly ironic soundtrack. But many other passengers have said the evacuation was bungled at best, with Capitan Francesco Schettino in a lifeboat rather than on the ship and amateur videos of the evacuation showing a dark, panicked scene.
Source: huffingtonpost [January 22, 2012]
