Panic at the sinking of cruise ship

The Costa Concordia cruise liner was full of people last night, having more exactly 3,200 passengers on board. These passengers were most likely preparing themselves for a night of fun and entertainment. Instead of all they had paid for, the lights suddenly went out and the ship tilted precariously to one side. The ship had hit a sand bar near the tiny island of Giglio.

Rosalyn Rincon, who was aboard the cruise ship working as a dancer, was inside a magic box when things started going wrong. "I realized that everything stopped. The music stopped," she said. Everything on stage started falling on people when the ship started titling.

"There was no signal as to what was going on until about 30 minutes into it," Rincon told CNN. "They told us there was a fire," she added.

After a second blackout she rushed and put on a life vest in her cabin. Several minutes later, "we were told to abandon ship," Rincon said. Panic started settling in. "The life rafts weren't opening," she said. "We had to let the passengers go first."

Rincon said the scene was like the one in Titanic.

"The ship was going down. The water was rising. And I just thought there was only one thing to do was jump and swim and there was mountains nearby that we could get to," she said. "This is the problem: You've got 3,000 passengers, you've got 2,000 crew members, and and you got only one side of useage of life boats and life rafts" because the ship was leaning to one side, Rincon added. ”The water coming up, there's obviously nothing you can do," she said. "It was just chaos."

Approximately 50 people are still missing and emergency crews are looking for them.

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