. >> costa's georgio moretti said the concordia's crew members followed company policy. >> according to the training, if we don't sound the emergency signals, there is nothing. they just wait. >> captain schettino made a series of calls, as many as 17, but what he said is a matter of bitter dispute. his lawyer insists he hid nothing. >> translator: captain schettino immediately, promptly informed the company of what happened and kept it constantly informed. >> the ceo claims otherwise. >> the first information we have says absolutely contrary to that. it says the information he received from captain schettino didn't sound as serious indeed in the end it was. >> authorities were first notified of the incident not by the crew but cell phones from passengers at least half an hour after the collision. a few minutes later, coast guard headquarters here in rome were alerted. information started flooding into these computers, but the more they learned, the more worried they became. >> they didn't call. we called them. we called them twice. >> the coast guard commander says the coast guard w