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The Guardian’s gallery of photos from Venice underwater is positively fascinating.  For one, keeping all that electrical work above the waterline so that residents don’t get electrocuted is amazing.  And I know the deluge is a regular event, but this year’s floods are the worst seen in years, and… climate change, anyone? (Photo of a shopkeeper attempting to keep water levels down inside his store by pumping into already flooded streets in Venice, Italy by Marco Secchi / Getty Images via The Guardian)
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The Guardian’s gallery of photos from Venice underwater is positively fascinating.  For one, keeping all that electrical work above the waterline so that residents don’t get electrocuted is amazing.  And I know the deluge is a regular event, but this year’s floods are the worst seen in years, and… climate change, anyone?

(Photo of a shopkeeper attempting to keep water levels down inside his store by pumping into already flooded streets in Venice, Italy by Marco Secchi / Getty Images via The Guardian)

Oriano Caretti looks at overturned shelves containing Parmesan cheese in San Giovanni, Italy, Monday. When an earthquake hit northern Italy Sunday, some 400,000 huge rounds of the area’s famed cheese were damaged. Seven people were killed in the quake. (Photo: Luca Bruno / AP via The Wall Street Journal)
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Oriano Caretti looks at overturned shelves containing Parmesan cheese in San Giovanni, Italy, Monday. When an earthquake hit northern Italy Sunday, some 400,000 huge rounds of the area’s famed cheese were damaged. Seven people were killed in the quake. (Photo: Luca Bruno / AP via The Wall Street Journal)

HALF / TIME   An old tower is seen collapsed after an earthquake in Finale Emilia, Italy, May 20. A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy early Sunday, causing serious damage to the area’s cultural heritage. The epicenter of the 6.0 magnitude quake, the strongest to hit Italy in three years, was in the plains near Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of the Po River Valley; at least three people died.   (Photo: Giorgio Benvenuti / Reuters via MSNBC)
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HALF / TIME   An old tower is seen collapsed after an earthquake in Finale Emilia, Italy, May 20. A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy early Sunday, causing serious damage to the area’s cultural heritage. The epicenter of the 6.0 magnitude quake, the strongest to hit Italy in three years, was in the plains near Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of the Po River Valley; at least three people died.   (Photo: Giorgio Benvenuti / Reuters via MSNBC)

Partial transcript of communications between the Italian Coast Guard and Captain Francesco Schettino, obtained by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, via Reuters:

  • COAST GUARD:

    There are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board. ...Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear?!

  • COAST GUARD:

    ...Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!

  • (Noise can be heard in the background where other Coast Guard officers are shouting to each other in the same room about "the ship, the ship")

  • SCHETTINO:

    Please ..

  • COAST GUARD:

    There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!

  • SCHETTINO:

    I am on a life boat of rescue, I am under here. I am not going anywhere. I am here.

  • COAST GUARD:

    What are you doing, captain?

  • SCHETTINO:

    I am here to coordinate the rescue ...

  • COAST GUARD (interrupting):

    What are you coordinating there! Go on board! Coordinate the rescue from on board! Are you refusing?

  • SCHETTINO:

    No, I am not refusing.

  • COAST GUARD:

    Are you refusing to go on board, captain? Tell me the reason why you are not going back on board.

  • SCHETTINO:

    (inaudible)... there is a another life boat ...

  • COAST GUARD (interrupting again, screaming):

    You go back on board! That is an order! There is nothing else for you to consider. You have sounded the 'abandon ship'. Now I am giving the orders. Go back on board. Is that clear? Don't you hear me?

  • SCHETTINO:

    I am going on board.

A smashed hull and debris field is seen atop the underwater rock struck by the liner Costa Concordia.  The hazard, which the ship’s captain claimed was not seen on navigational charts — a claim disputed by virtually all maritime experts — tore a 160-foot gash in the ship’s superstructure.  Italian newspapers report the captain, Francesco Schettino, later clambered over rocks to shore and caught a taxi to escape from the scene. (Photo: Reuters via the Guardian)
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A smashed hull and debris field is seen atop the underwater rock struck by the liner Costa Concordia.  The hazard, which the ship’s captain claimed was not seen on navigational charts — a claim disputed by virtually all maritime experts — tore a 160-foot gash in the ship’s superstructure.  Italian newspapers report the captain, Francesco Schettino, later clambered over rocks to shore and caught a taxi to escape from the scene. (Photo: Reuters via the Guardian)

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