Costa Concordia capsized with son on board weeks before daughter was cast adrift on sister ship
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/2 ... -concordiaA British mother has spoken of her disbelief after a cruise ship her daughter is working on was cast adrift weeks after her son survived the capsizing of its sister ship, the Costa Concordia.
Jayne Thomas said Rebecca, 23, a dancer, is one of more than 1,000 people aboard the Costa Allegra, now being towed to safety after breaking down in the Indian Ocean following a fire on board.
She added that her son, James Thomas, 19, also a dancer, was still recovering from the trauma of the Concordia running aground off the Italian coast in January, with the loss of 32 lives.
Speaking from the family home in Sutton Coldfield, Jayne Thomas told the BBC: "I thought it was a one-off and we wouldn't be going through this experience again. I really didn't think disaster could strike twice.
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British dancer, 19, acted as a 'human ladder' to help terrified passengers off stricken cruise ship
James Thomas used 6ft 3in frame to bridge gap between two of the decks
Dozens of passengers clambered over him into lifeboats
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... adder.html
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...and just in case we don't get the metaphors, sometimes they lay it all out for us:
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ja ... luc-godardAnyone who sat through Film Socialisme may have suspected that the Costa Concordia was heading for trouble. The cruise liner was the setting for the first "movement" of Jean-Luc Godard's ambitious, infuriating 2010 picture, serving as a self-conscious metaphor for western capital ploughing through choppy waters.