Oh the sad, sad irony: ‘Titanic’ theme song played as Italian cruise ship capsized
As sad as the sinking of the Italian cruiseliner the Costa Concordia was, there’s an odd bit of sad irony in the story– apparently, as the ship was going down, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” was playing across the boat as it hit rocks off the Italian island of Giglo. That’s what happens when you play Celine Dion on a cruise. God gets angry.
Yannic Sgaga and his brother Kevin told Swiss paper La Tribune de Geneve Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On from the hit 1997 film was playing when the accident happened off the Tuscan coast on Friday.
“Images from the film Titanic are more realistic than one might imagine. They kept coming into my head,” Yannic Sgaga said.
The claim is one of several comparisons to the 1912 Titanic disaster - and the film - made by people aboard the Costa Concordia, which hit rocks near the Italian island of Giglo on Saturday.
It has also been revealed one of the survivors aboard the cruise ship is the grand-daughter of a woman who survived the Titanic disaster.
Valentina Capuano, 30, had a grandmother and great uncle aboard the Titanic, which sunk in its 1912 maiden voyage. Her great-uncle Giovanni, a waiter aboard the cruise liner, died.‘It was like re-living history, it was horrible, I was really shocked,“ she told Italian newspaper La Repubblica. "I am still shaken up and get very upset when I think about what I’ve been through, I have heart palpitations.”
Fights over lifejackets and the desperation of people leaping off the side of the ship into the sea has also been compared to the ill-fated Titanic voyage.
Other passengers have compared the delay in deploying lifeboats on the Concordia, meaning the vessel was tilted too far to use them, to the lack of lifeboats aboard the Titanic.
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