23-rear-old dancer helped 400 escape sinking costa concordia
Rose Metcalf, a former dancer on the Costa Concordia, recounts her experience helping evacuate 400 passengers during the 2012 cruise ship disaster. She describes the chaotic situation and her efforts to organize crew members when official leadership was lacking.
Why it matters
It provides a human-interest perspective on a major maritime disaster and highlights the importance of individual initiative during emergency crises.
There was one Rose who was unable to save her lover, and there is one Rose who helped save the lives of 400 people aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship when it struck a giant granite reef, began to flood and tipped on its side.Rose Metcalf was working as a professional dancer aboard the cruise ship when the incident happened near Giglio Island in Italy at 9:45 pm local time on January 13, 2012. It took more than six hours to evacuate the ship, after which 32 people among the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members were confirmed dead.Thanks to Metcalf, who was just 23 years old at the time, the number of fatalities did not reach higher. Reflecting on her actions on the U.K.
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