The first of seventeen Hondurans shipwrecked almost one week ago off the coast of Giglio, Italy, has returned to Honduras. Rolando Argueta had been working aboard the cruise ship Costa Concordia, and was greeted last night with hugs and tears by his mother, Delia Melgar. Argueta expressed that the tragedy was, “like the film the Titanic”. Despite the experience, Rolando Argueta intends to return to service with the cruiseline, “I will return if they engage me, because my family depends on the support from my work.”
Another Honduran aboard the Costa Concordia ship, German Martínez Urbina, who is expected to return Saturday, said he was happy for his education from the Honduran Merchant Navy. He outlined how they were trained to respond in cases of an emergency. “We practiced at the work of rescue and evacuations. We were responsible for lowering the boats, doing the exercises, and putting them [people] safely on the ground.”
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