Report: Italian coast guard ordered cruise ship captain to return to wrecked ship

{mosads}”Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad,” the coast guard official said later in the recording. “I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!

“You go back on board! That is an order!” the official continued. “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 is now being detained by Italian authorities; it is a crime to abandon ship there.

Officials have increased the number of passengers killed in the crash from six to 11. About 30 passengers remain missing.

The lobbying group for the cruise industry, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), has said the Costa Concordia accident was a “terrible tragedy,” but the group has said the cruise industry is safe and that incidents like the shipwreck in Italy are a “rare occurence.”