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Not again. There is a giant cruise ship in trouble. An Italian cruise liner carrying more than 1,000 people was adrift without power in the pirate-infested Indian Ocean on Monday, February 27, 2012, after a fire erupted in its generator room. Officials said the blaze was extinguished without causing injuries. The fire aboard the Costa Allegra  (two images above) occurred only six weeks after one of its sister ships, the Costa Concordia (see below), hit a reef and capsized off Italy, killing 25 people and leaving seven missing and presumed dead. Both ships are operated by Costa Crociere SpA, which is owned by the Florida-based Carnival Corporation. Like a scene from the movie Titanic that came true... Tug boats from the island nation of Seychelles were steaming to the powerless Costa Allegra , which was carrying 636 passengers and 413 crew members. But the tugs were not expected to arrive until Tuesday afternoon at the earliest. Italian coast guard officials said a large Fren...

Off the Island of Giglio, on Friday, January 13, 2012, the cruise liner  Costa Concordia  ran aground just off the shore. Most of the more than 4,200 passengers and crew were rescued and taken to the island, as well as to the mainland. At least 11 people died and 64 were injured, with 22 or more still missing. In this blog's  previous posting , several links were noted between the Costa Concordia 's sinking of 2012, and the Titanic sinking of 1912. A new item discovered links to the name  Giglio  and deserves to be unfolded in this examination here. Isola del Giglio  or Giglio Island is an island and Italian  comune  situated in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Tuscany, part of the Province of Grosseto. The island is one of seven that form the Tuscan Archipelago.  Giglio  means "lily" in Italian, and though the name would appear consistent with the insignia of  Medici Florence , it derives from...

The ship that sank 100 years ago, on April 15th, was named RMS Titanic . But it had several nicknames: The Unsinkable Ship, The Last Word in Luxury, The Millionaire’s Special, The Wonder Ship, and The Ship of Dreams. It is doubtful we will see any ships with those kinds of nicknames ever again. In the next few months, I thought, various essays would begin to appear about the Titanic . Therefore, it was a surprise to receive a "breaking news" email from a friend about the events of last Friday the 13th, hinting at a new Titanic mess. Brad Steiger is a well-known author of Fortean and related books. I wrote a "Foreword" to his reprinted edition of Strange Guests   (NY: Anomalist Books, 2006), and recently have assisted with a bit of data in his and his wife Sherry's forthcoming updated edition of Conspiracies and Secret Societies . I had been too busy to watch most of the news last week. But then something in the background was alerting me to be aware. ...