Christine Hammer, 65, and her husband, Gert, was enjoying appetizers. A plate of squid, mushroom mash, and salad for dinner is the opening menu of the luxury passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia, January 13 last night.

The ship had just departed from the Port of Civitavecchia near Rome, Italy. Along the 50-meter yachts that start shipping during the week leading Barcelona and Majorca in Spain.

There are 4000 passengers on board, of whom 1,000 residents Italians, 500 Germans, 150 French nationals, and 1,000 men participated in the cruise ship sailed the Mediterranean Sea.

Suddenly the ship hit something. Dishes, glasses, and the passenger ship slammed into the floor. The situation was suddenly dark because the lights on the ship died. Panic was wafted. The screams of a woman who was five months pregnant to be one shriek of fear thousands of passengers.

But the passengers actually be confused by the crew. For 45 minutes post-collision, the crew even tried to menenangi situation. »They said no problem," said Hammer, a resident of the City of Bonn, Germany, which received the ship ticket from the local church donations.

After all, the passengers who often cruise by boat to feel the danger threatens. »You are watching the movie Titanic? That's what we feel, "said Valerie Ananias, 31, school teacher from Los Angeles, USA. Valerie sailed with his parents and sister.

The survivors are now forced to flee. Schools, hotels, and churches on the island of Giglio, crowded with refugees. Even the mayor of Giglio, Sergio Ortelli, asked its citizens to accommodate more refugees. While those who were evacuated by helicopter were taken to the Port of Porto Santo Stefano.

But the deaths of at least three passengers and 69 others still missing, making the victim angry. »We have to shout at the crew lowered lifeboats to the ship," said Mike van Dijk, from Pretoria, South Africa. »This is very terrible."

Investigators approach the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia which leans on its starboard side after running aground in the tiny Tuscan island of Isola del Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in the hull and forcing the evacuation of some 4,200 people from the listing vessel early Saturday, the Italian coast guard said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italian firefighters' scuba divers approach the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia which ran aground a day earlier off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. The incident sent water pouring in through a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in the hull and forced the evacuation of some 4,200 people from the listing vessel early Saturday, the Italian coast guard said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italian firefighters conduct search operations on the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia that ran aground the tiny Tuscan island of Isola del Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in the hull and forcing the evacuation of some 4,200 people from the listing vessel early Saturday, the Italian coast guard said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Rescuers approach the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia which leans on its starboard side after running aground in the tiny Tuscan island of Isola del Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in the hull and forcing the evacuation of some 4,200 people from the listing vessel early Saturday, the Italian coast guard said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A view shows the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island January 15, 2012. Rescuers were painstakingly checking thousands of cabins on the Italian liner for 15 people still unaccounted for after the huge vessel foundered and keeled over, killing at least five people and injuring 70. REUTERS/ Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: MARITIME TRANSPORT DISASTER TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)