Costa Concordia - Italy Shipwreck Captain Was Not Wearing Glasses Reuters

Sat Mar 3, 2012 2:35pm EST

* Lawyer with regard to first policeman claims your dog was required to read radar

* Tells pre-trial experiencing their clientele purchased evacuation

* Costa Concordia captain encounters manslaughter charges (Adds report about previous accident)

By Silvia Aloisi in addition to Silvia Ognibene

GROSSETO, Italy, March several (Reuters) - The captain from the wrecked Costa Concordia trip liner hasn't been using his a pair of glasses on that evening from the accident and also asked his earliest official to check the radar with regard to him, this officer's lawyer said on Saturday.

The cruise liner capsized heli-copter flight Tuscan snowdonia of Giglio after hammering a good ole' on Jan. 13, getting rid of at the very least 25 people. Seven consumers are still unaccounted for.

Prosecutors possess arrested Captain Francesco Schettino involving causing your problem by way of bringing that Costa Concordia , having a lot more than 4,200 people and crew, also towards the shore.

The first officer, Ciro Ambrosio, in addition to eleven other officials along with vip's belonging to the ship's owner, Costa Cruises, may also be under investigation.

"That night time Schettino had kept his reading eyeglasses in the cabin in addition to continuously enquired Ambrosio to check out the radar to evaluate the actual route," Ambrosio's lawyer Salvatore Catalano explained to Reuters outdoor a new pre-trial reading with the particular automobile accident with Saturday.

Ambrosio experienced designed the allegation in relation to Schettino, 51, to be able to looking magistrates with former hearings, Catalano added.

Schettino has said that this rock reach simply by this cruise liner wasn't on his navigational charts and acknowledged that will this individual introduced this ship also towards the shore, but they states that your dog had not been alone the reason for that tragedy.

Catalano mentioned Ambrosio bought your evacuation belonging to the listing reef fishing boat ahead of the captain had constructed their head to undertake it. "He ordered that lifeboats to be place to ocean through terrace selection four".

None of them beneath analysis gone to the closed-door experiencing within the Tuscan town regarding Grosseto, that was presented in a theatre to help provide a huge selection of victims' relatives, survivors and also solicitors with regard to most sides.

MEDIA CAMPAIGN

Schettino's lawyer, Bruno Leporatti, could not address the actual most recent claims levelled through the first police officer from the captain, who's been recently held as much as condemnation plus ridicule around the world.

But they denounced precisely what this individual referred to as your mass media advertising campaign against Schettino and reiterated that his purchaser had regularly informed Costa Cruises' vip's involving what exactly had been transpiring to the ship.

"There has been a press advertising campaign to help belittle captain Schettino, but he is definitely not supplying in to that . It's most of portion of the following idea this Schettino is a bad, your dusty as well as ugly one, and that is certainly false," Leporatti told a news conference.

Leporatti seemed to be expected about a good unsourced article in Britain's Daily Mail, which usually explained Schettino possessed already harmed another luxury crusie ship at your German interface in June 2010.

The Daily Mail published that will Schettino had "manoeuvred for a swiftness involving 7.7 to 7.9 knots throughout admittance into your vent associated with Warnemunde, inducing damage to the Aida Blu vacation ship."

Leporatti said: "That designed occurrence appeared to be dependant upon the truth that this (Aida Blu) vessel hasn't been moored properly. Schettino has not been disciplined by way of Costa Cruises neither seemed to be he / she notified of just about any infraction with the dock authorities."

In the actual Costa Concordia case, Schettino is definitely charged of an string regarding charges as well as multiple manslaughter in addition to abandoning the liner before the evacuation regarding individuals in addition to crew. He is less than criminal arrest from his residence around Meta di Sorrento, near Naples.

His neighbors continuing to defend him.

"It's typical intended for mishaps to help transpire at sea," Franco D'Elia, a ex - sailor, told Reuters. "Accidents come about on sturdy ground, at sea, and from the sky." (Additional confirming by way of Laura Viggiano; Editing by Robin Pomeroy along with Andrew Heavens )