12 years ago

One World, One Nation.
Crew Members around the world, Unite and show your support and solidarity. Help your fellow crew member to bury his nightmares of Costa Concordia with small donation. This could happen to any one of us, so show your solidarity.

One World, One Nation.
Crew Members around the world, Unite and show your support and solidarity. Help your fellow crew member to bury his nightmares of Costa Concordia with small donation. This could happen to any one of us, so show your solidarity.

Letter from Costa concordia crew member, Dan Theodor.

Dear friends,
 
    My name is Dan Theodor, i'm 27, and I live in Romania. I;m writing this to you all just to know what to expect in such a situation, and to ask you...a favor.
In 2011 july I applied for a job onboard cruise ships. After the paperwork being done and the inteviews finished i was put in hold for a week to wait for the answer. With little time to spare i finally got the answer from Starboard announcing me I have taken the interview and a ship will be set for me. Costa Concordia, was the ship they named for me as my first contract onboard cruise ships.I was delighted, look on youtube for hours to see what she was like.After a few weeks of preping, I left my hometown, my country, and reached the doors of the Costa Concordia.
It was a surprise for me to see that my cabin mate was a co-national.
Time went on, had to get used to all the trainings onboard, (two weeks time) the working hours, and the time allocated into knowing the ship, visiting countries and of course...spread some sleep in the eyes.
Time past on, i was due to finish my contract on february 18th, 2012. What came next, I never never in my life thought possible to happen.

It was the 13 of January, 18:00 hrs was just getting ready to go on deck 5 where I was working. Went to the crew messes to have a bite and then get ready to go back upstairs.I must say something odd was on that night, were verry little passenger in the Europa Atrium for almost the entire time, wich was quite odd, given the fact that usually at least 10-15 people where in the shops at least, but not during this night.
I went on break a 10 minutes break, to have a sit over a no cigarbecause I don't smoke.When I went back to the tables, I wanted to arrange everything i had on the tables, and when i touched it...it began at exactly 21:42.
Looking from a bird eye view, the ship just started tilting, slowly, than all of a sudden, really fast to port side. We tried to hang onto something, everything just started to fall down on us, glass, perfumes, props. People were screaming, babies too...we took everything back into the shops and started helping people as soon as the ship came back slowly to it`s natural position. Women fainted, children hung in the arms of scared people, was a trully horrific night.We gathered down into the muster station, where we had to hold the passengers calm in 4-5 languages, run up and down the deck
 to bring elderly people that couldn`t or were to afraid to move because the ship was starting to lean against her starbord side.
As you all know, the abandonement order has to be given by the ship`s Master, wich came way to late on us and the passengers.
When we te crew realised the true situation, we started putting people into the boats, launch them and ordered them to get back to the ship to pick up more people.Said and done, and in 5 hours most of the passengers were off the ship. I must remind you this is how everything occured in that night from what I have experienced.

Me and another colleague of mine, got of the ship amids the las ones, getting of in the liferafts, reaching the shores of Giglio 10 minutes later being pulled away by a pilot boat.When we reached the Giglios port, we got off and started gathering into one point to see who was off the ship and...who wasn't.
It became very clear in the dawn the actuall maginitude of the incident when we first saw the ship being kneeled to her starboard side at an 80 degrees angle. Even today i remember that the Bridge had a red light lit inside, meaning emergency, when the batteries kicked in in, that red light, just flashed a few times and there it was, she was dead, she has given hope, Concordia was now, belonging to the sea.
Months past on, and still not even after a second contract (later i did Costa Favolosa) I cannot get over that night. Those lost souls, where ever they are, for me still have no peace being still...on a continuous cruise, until the ship is pulled away.
Most would say "just move on, you didn't know these people", wich is not that easy to just do it.I will feel fully healed when that ship is uprighted and moved away.
What i need to ask you, me fellow shipmates around the world, is to help get to the Island of Giglio, to say a last farewell to my colleagues (also yours), to feel that they have been freed from the trapping nightmare that still holds them down connected to this world we live in. This way i will alsso find my own piece of mind. Should anyone of you, be able to make a donation, no matter how less it is, to help me go there by the time announced for the uprising of the ship (december 15th).By my estimates, I would need around 1000 euros to go to the island, money of wich under my difficult situation, don't own. I'm gathering myself my own money, but even so cannot make 1000 euros by then.Here is my facebook, for you to know whom I am http://www.facebook.com/?q=#/danitzoi and just look into my pictures.

 
 

 

I respectfully Thank You in advance for making time to read this, and understand my situation.

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Banca Transilvania

Bank account:  RO82 BTRL 0060 4201 D304 10XX
FIRST NAME: THEODOR DAN
LAST NAME: CHICHERITA

SWIFT: BTRLRO22

Address: Piata Petru Rares nr.4
Phone: +40263 210304
Fax: +40263 210315

http://bancatransilvania.ro/