A Costa Concordia survivor has told how her husband saved her life before drowning – because there was ‘nobody there’ to save him.
Frenchwoman Nicole Servel, 61, said Francis Servel, 71, gave her his lifejacket before they leapt off the sinking cruise ship.
She said: ‘I owe my life to my husband – it’s obvious he saved me.’ She managed to swim for shore, while Mr Servel was swept underwater and drowned.’
The horrific story was just one of many to emerge after the cruise ship crashed into rocks off the Italian island of Giglio, Italy, on Friday night, leaving six dead and more than a dozen still missing.
…Her story backs up other survivor claims that it was a case of every man, woman and child for themselves of the £390m vessel after it ran aground.
Fights broke out to get into the lifeboats, men refused to prioritise women, expectant mothers and children as they pushed themselves forward to escape. Crew ignored their passengers – leaving ‘chefs and waiters’ to help out.
…In heart-rending footage, recorded on mobile phones, British children could be heard shouting ‘Daddy’ and ‘Mummy’ in the melee.
As she waited for a flight home from Rome, grandmother Sandra Rogers, 62, told the Daily Mail: ‘There was no “women and children first” policy. There were big men, crew members, pushing their way past us to get into the lifeboats. It was disgusting.’
Mrs Rogers, a widow originally from Chester who has retired to Minorca, was sailing with her daughter Karen, 39, and seven-year-old twin granddaughters Emma and Chloe.
She said: ‘I want everyone to know how badly some people behaved. It was a nightmare. I lost my daughter and my grandchildren in the chaos.
‘I was standing by the lifeboats and men, big men, were banging into me and knocking the girls. It was awful. There was a total lack of organisation. There was no one telling people where to go.
‘And when we finally got into a lifeboat, people, grown men, were trying to jump into the boat. I thought, if they land in here we are going to capsize.
…‘There was a lot of panic, screams, children crying,’ he said. ‘Some passengers came to blows as they tried to get in the lifeboats.’
…‘People were screaming. Women and children were not getting priority at all.’ He added: ‘I have lost everything including my passport. I only have the clothes I am wearing.’
Other passengers said they had seen the crew and captain leave the ship instead of staying to help passengers.
How can any humans choose to go in front of a child?
Women I can understand.
At least in the USA women have fought to be no more or less than men, but children???
Unbelievable.
And the chickens of secular liberal culture rot came home to roost.
No morals because they are outdated and tied to despised and mocked Christianity
No character because European society has deemed its hinderance to self esteem and the exersise of self pleasure.
Libtards can say what they wish about traditional morals and religious grounding but they make scenes such as these less likely, while the new morals of the progressive left make them more likely.
First, I’m praying for all the missing passengers that have not been found. Second, I want to address the comments on all the websites that it’s OK to push aside women and children because us women have fought to be equal as men. We fought for equality in pay, work conditions, voting rights, etc., so to use this as a reason for promoting equality is just plain ignorance. Putting women, elders and children on the life boat should have been priority above all else, it has nothing to do with equality, it’s what’s right. Real men, men of GOD would not of acted in that manner, nor commented on the factor that it’s OK.
HALLELUJAH!!! Men are slaves no more. Now to push for true equality. No voting for anyone under the age of 26 who is not registered for the draft. No affirmative action for women, ever.