Abandon Ship | National Geographic

inside the Concordia hundreds of
stranded passengers are searching for a
way out no working lifeboats remain
people slipping over Everywhere’s
mad-eye it was horrible there is little
sign of a coordinated evacuation on
board the worst situation that could
happen for the passengers on board is if
they lose confidence in the very people
that are supposed to be managing the
entire evacuation process the people
that are managing the evacuation proces
need to be seen and perceived to be in
control to be to have information at
their disposal that’s going to help the
passengers the ship is now listing
heavily to the starboard side dancers
Joe and Kirstie located towards the rear
of the ship can only watch as the water
level rises oh please please please
please I was saying I’m not ready to die
together they decide their only way out
is to jump for it I was quite high up on
the ship and that was level with water
and I’m stuck I just remember watching
this ice it’s all breaking like
everyone’s looking each other going take
care like I love you take care nice to
start I’m gonna die my my bees forever
I’ve died and I was like that’s how
about to go and I just thought was I’ll
give it a diver I was like Joe you’re
not coming out of this one
we all just then look to each other and
we thought this is gonna be it I just
jumped in and just I said went like mad
swimming I watched him jump and then I
just followed him afterwards we didn’t
even think about it just ran and jumped
it was absolutely freezing but that was
the last thing on my mind
didn’t go through my mind I was just
like what what could be under the water
like was I’m so petrified let’s say but
I was just literally swimming I was just
like as for me I was I was like if I die
I die as I was preparing myself for a
and I was waiting for it to happen and
then the swim it’s so much hard work and
I had my phone in my purse in my hand
clinging on to the right side I don’t
want to lose things people were shouting
to not look back and then I was so knack
that I had to go onto my back and swim
and you know he’d say it’s just these
lights like they’re not you know a
typical light from the Titanic the
typical deep echo nose and of all the
metal like breaking off light so that
that noise that noise will not leave a
son it takes them 20 minutes to reach
the islands rocky shoreline I started to
climb up I slipped and I thinking I’m
not going back in that water no way and
I tried to pull myself up but there was
a local villager who’d come down and she
was stood there waiting to drag people
up and she grabbed my hand and pulled me
up