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Sandor Feher, 38, had helped children put on life vests but returned to his cabin to find his instrument, Jozsef Balogh, a fellow musician said. Mr Feher was named as one of the dead on Wednesday. The search for possible survivors or more bodies was suspended Wednesday morning after instruments attached to the stricken ship showed it had moved nearly 5ft. Divers had been hoping to gain access to the fourth deck, where most of the bodies have been located. There are fears that bad weather and rough seas today could shift the massive vessel and possibly send it plunging down a rock slope to a depth of 300ft. A Dutch salvage firm, Smit, says it is ready to start pumping out the ship’s 500,000 gallons of diesel and oil, but Corrado Clini, the Italian environment minister, said the operation would not start until the search for the 22 people still missing was finished. The relations of two of the missing – an Indian man and a Peruvian woman – arrived on the island of Giglio but hope is fading fast that anyone else will be found alive, given the freezing conditions and the fact that much of it is submerged. Divers have found the spot where the $450 million cruise liner struck rocks, after the captain steered it too close to shore. After impact, the captain swung the ship around and grounded it on rocks near Giglio’s harbour. Satellite tracking information showed that the ship sailed even closer to Giglio’s rocky shore last summer. Lloyd’s List told the BBC that the ship passed within 750ft of the island on Aug 14. Richard Meade, the editor of Lloyd’s List, said: “The company’s account of what happened, of the rogue master taking a bad decision, isn’t quite as black and white as they presented originally. This ship took a very similar route only a few months previously and the master would have known that.”

Cruise disaster: quest for his violin cost ship's entertainer his life - Telegraph

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Now there's a mental priest involved: Costa Concordia: cruise ship captain 'cried like a baby' - Telegraph

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Father Massimo Donghi told his parishioners that he was heading off for a week of contemplation and prayer, but instead boarded the luxury liner at Civitavecchia, north of Rome, for a luxury cruise of Mediterranean ports.

He was found out when his nephew, who was also on the cruise, posted assurances on Facebook that the priest had survived the disaster.

The nephew told worried friends and relatives that he, his uncle and the priest's elderly mother had managed to get into lifeboats when the 1,000ft liner ran aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio.

They were among the 4,200 passengers and crew who were forced to evacuate the ship after it smashed into a rocky shoal on the night of Jan 13.

Its captain, Francesco Schettino, apparently sailed too close to the island in order to give a 'salute' to a retired naval commander and as a favour to a member of his crew, a head waiter whose family are from Giglio, part of the Tuscan archipelago of islands.

Capt Schettino, who has claimed that his employers from Genoa-based Costa Cruises insisted on the risky manoeuvre in order to provide a spectacle for passengers, is under house arrest in his home town of Meta di Sorrento near Naples.

Father Donghi, who joined the priesthood after studying at a theological seminary in Milan, will now have to explain himself to his parishioners in Besana Brianza, near Monza in northern Italy.

Church-goers had imagined he had signed up for a week of simple living and religious devotion, rather than a cruise on board a ship which boasts spas, saunas, jacuzzis, four swimming pools, five restaurants, 13 bars, a casino and a discotheque.

“What do you want me to say?” the priest told an Italian news magazine, Panorama. “I have nothing to add. Im OK although I’m still a bit in shock. I will talk to my parishioners in church. The judgment of others is not important to me.”

Italian priest caught out lying to parishioners after Concordia disaster - Telegraph

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what a douche.

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He was taking his dear mom to a cruise... How nice.

See, that's what you get from modernising the Church. In the past, they'd take their churchgoers' money and finance and run brothels. Or private armies. Or both.

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