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Cruise liner’s captain claims he fell overboard

Search halted as vessel’s hull keeps shifting

By Alan Cowell and Gaia Pianigiani

 |  New York Times  

  January 19, 2012

The saga of the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia took further twists yesterday, with a warning from Italy’s environment minister that it could sink and news that the captain claimed he had slipped on deck and tumbled overboard to wind up in a lifeboat during the panicky passenger escape - and had not abandoned ship as accused.

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