Audio has been released of the Commander of the Livorno Port Authority yelling orders at the Captain of the Costa Concordia (nearly 115K tons and 1,000 feet long) after it rammed into rocks at 15 knots in calm waters on the 13th, began to sink and was declared abandoned.

Police divers close to the wrecked cruise ship off the coast of Giglio island, Italy. Guardian UK Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPA

Here’s a YouTube version with translation. Note the line at 2:10 “Vado a bordo, cazzo!” (Go on board, cazzo!):

Italian maritime criminal law says a captain who abandons ship in danger can be punished with prison.

The captain of the luxury liner shipwrecked off Italy on Friday has explained his early escape from the vessel by claiming he stumbled into a life raft and was unable to get out.