THE captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner personally ordered a route change which took the vessel dangerously close to the island of Giglio, an Italian court has been told.
The Concordia ran aground and capsized near Giglio on January 13, 2012, killing more than 30 people.
Captain Francesco Schettino is accused of having steered the ship close to the island to repeat a stunt - a so-called "bow" - which had been performed before.
First Deck Officer Giovanni Iaccarino told judges in Grosseto that on the night of the disaster the captain ordered the crew to sail at a distance of half a nautical mile from Giglio, rather than the normal 5 nautical miles.
He said Schettino had wanted the Concordia to carry out the stunt off Giglio during another cruise seven days earlier, "but it was not possible because the conditions were not right, the sea was too rough and the idea was abandoned."
Iaccarino, who had been summoned by the prosecution, was the first of more than 1000 witnesses due to appear in the trial, where the Costa Concordia captain is accused of manslaughter, abandoning ship and other serious crimes.
Iaccarino said he was off duty, in his cabin, when the Concordia ran aground.
He had been "playing at the PlayStation" with cartographer Simone Canessa, he told the court.
"I figured that we either had a collision or we had got stuck."
Thirty-two of the 4229 people who were on board died.
Last month rescuers resumed the search for two missing victims, after the wreck of the Concordia was righted from the half-capsized state it had been in after hitting the rocks.
DNA testing is still ongoing to ascertain whether bones found near the wreck on September 26 could belong to Indian waiter Russel Rebello and Italian passenger Maria Grazia Trecarichi.
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