[Coast Guard: "I am De Falco from Livorno, may I speak with the captain?]

[Schettino: "Yes, good evening, Captain De Falco"]

[Coast Guard : "Tell me your name please?"]

[Schettino: "I am Captain Schettino, Captain,']

Coast Guard: "Listen Schettino, there are people trapped on board. Now you need to go on your life boat, under the bow of the ship on the side. There is a ladder. You need to climb up the ladder and board the ship. Get on board and report to me how many people there are. Is that clear? [I'm recording this communication Captain Schettino]

[Schettino "I tell you one thing Captain"]

[Coast Guard "You speak loudly. Put your hand in front of the microphone and speak in a louder voice, okay?]

Schettino: "At this moment the ship is tilted."

Coast Guard: "I understand. Listen, there are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board. . . . Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear? . . . Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!"

Schettino: [Captain] "Please . . . "

Coast Guard: "There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!"

Schettino: "I am in the life boat, under the ship, I haven't gone anywhere, I'm here."

Coast Guard: "What are you doing?"

Schettino: "I am coordinating [relief efforts] "

Coast Guard: "What are you coordinating there? Go on board! Coordinate the rescue from on board! Are you refusing?"

Schettino: "No, I am not refusing."

Coast Guard: [You are refusing to go on board Captain?] "Tell me the reason why you are not going back on board."

Schettino: "There is another life boat [that has stopped]

Coast Guard: "You go back on board! That is an order! 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: "I am going on board."

Coast Guard: "Go! Call me immediately when you are on board. My rescue people are in front of the bow."

...

[Coast Guard: There are already dead Schettino. "]

[Schettino: "How many bodies are there?"]

[Coast Guard: "I do not know .. One I know. One I heard. You have to tell me how many there are, Christ. "]

[Schettino: "But you realize that it's dark and here we see nothing]

[Coast Guard: And you want to go home Schettino? It's dark and you want to go home? Go up on the bow of the ship with the ladder and tell me what you can do, how many people are there, and what they need. Now.]

[Schettino: `I am with the second in command." ]

[Coast Guard: Go up, both of you. You and your second climb aboard now. Is that clear?]

[Schettino: "I want to get on board, but that the other boat here ... There are other rescuers, she stopped and was there, now calling other rescuers
]

[Coast Guard: "You are telling me this hour. Now go on board, go on BOARD! And immediately say how many people are there. "]

[Schettino:" Very good captain ']

[Coast Guard : "Go, now!"]

_Schettino: "Where are your rescuers?"

_De Falco: "My air rescue is on the prow. Go. There are already bodies, Schettino."

_Schettino: "How many bodies are there?"

_De Falco: "I don't know. I have heard of one. You are the one who has to tell me how many there are. Christ."

_Schettino: "But do you realize it is dark and here we can't see anything..."

_De Falco: "And so what? You want go home, Schettino? It is dark and you want to go home? Get on that prow of the boat using the pilot ladder and tell me what can be done, how many people there are and what their needs are. Now!"

_Schettino: "...I am with my second in command."

_De Falco: "So both of you go up then ... You and your second go on board now. Is that clear?"

_Schettino: "Commander, I want to go on board, but it is simply that the other boat here ... there are other rescuers. It has stopped and is waiting..."

_De Falco: "It has been an hour that you have been telling me the same thing. Now, go on board. Go on board! And then tell me immediately how many people there are there."

_Schettino: "OK, commander"

_De Falco: "Go, immediately!"

Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!"

Listen Schettino, that you saved yourself from the sea, but I am going to... I'm going to make sure you get in trouble. ...I am going to make you pay for this. Go on board, (expletive)!"

["I do not know .. One I know. One I heard. You have to tell me how many there are, Christ. "]

"I don't know. I have heard of one. You are the one who has to tell me how many there are. Christ."

And you want to go home Schettino? It's dark and you want to go home?

And so what? You want go home, Schettino? It is dark and you want to go home

["You are telling me this hour. Now go on board, go on BOARD! And immediately say how many people are there."]

"It has been an hour that you have been telling me the same thing. Now, go on board. Go on board! And then tell me immediately how many people there are there."

It's sad an ultimately inexcusable that a man like him was placed in charge of a ship.

I think it's reasonably clear that people died from his inaction (not taking charge of the evacuation) and it seems likely that people died from his action of not ensuring his ship was on course.