Shortly before the Concordia crashed, Schettino can be heard on the audiotape telling the helmsman to turn again.
Before the Concordia, the island shuttered up in late October and opened again in the spring.
Before the Concordia came to town, the local population hovered somewhere between 600 and 900 during the winter months.
As Dr. Jim Pfause of Concordia University points out, “smaller ones may mean you need more stimulation.”
On Giglio, the remnants of the disaster will never go away even after the Concordia is towed from its shores.
He was the guest of honor at the Concordia Club soon after his arrival, and the great ones of Vienna assembled to do him honor.
On a cliff above the town is the fort of Concordia, and near it a brook, just deep enough to float small prahus for a few yards.
The traveller was naturally much impressed with the scene at the Concordia Club.
Men waited in rows five or six deep in front of the bars of the two public houses, the Lush House and the Concordia.
Among many others, the Societeit Harmonie and the Concordia are the most considerable.
