gnu and Ed-

The summary from the CBC Fifth Estate link certainly correlates with what we've been able to harvest on this thread.

This was not an accident but a irresponsible blunder by the captain. The only saving grace is that the consequences could have been worse.

So there's the captain on the bridge in the late evening with his girlfriend, chatting on his cellphone, with the ship tearing along at 15 knots, and he fails to make his turn in time to clear the well-known rocks off the coast of Giglio. Shit!

Charley Noble