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Buddies and lifting weight, and i remember doing a dead lift and my back all of a sudden, it just seized up. i kind of tilted over, and i remember i could not walk. i couldnt get off the ground. >> reporter: his back was broken. >> after three months, i finally got out of the body cast. and i started p.t. i just had to learn how to walk and pick things up off the ground and then i wanted to get on the ice. >> reporter: he had to come back slowly and wear just one pair of skates. >> i was never a...

Away physically unscathed but mentally its hard. listen as one describes the final seconds before impact. >> we seemed to be flying in way too low. the last couple seconds before it happened the engines revved into high gear. like the captain is say nothing, no we have to get out of here. then boom the back end lifted up and the jolted everybody in their seats. for a second we thought we were pulling it off. but the back end went up and came back down and we started fish tailing and you can see ...

And they were terrified. its pitch-black. they had no idea what was going on and didnt know what they were going to hit. they dove off and sam ashore. >> amazing. courtney walsh following this for us. well continue to follow it throughout the morning as more details come in. thank you so much live on the scene reporting. >> amazing thing, she mentioned a guy who had a broken leg who helped everybody off. the captain apparently was in a row boat, a lifeboat under a blanket. the purser for the shi...

The allegation is the captain may not have done that. david saba, thanks so much for sharpg the chaos going on on that ship. thank you. >> and now they are headed to florida where they make their home. lets talk a little bit about the state. two states north of florida, and of course, were talking about south carolina. later on today, we understand in myrtle beach, jon huntsman late this morning is going to officially drop out. he came in third place and he was so excited in new hampshire. but t...

Calm. but the people were going crazy. it definitely looked like a disaster. >> how did you get to the lifeboat? how did you get to the life raft, mr. saba, and was that a difficult trip from the ship to the water itself? >> oh, yeah. on the way down from the raft to the water was very, very violent. i guess the angle at which the ship was tilted made the raft, made it tilt so when we were going down, we kind of were swinging a little bit. which was very scary. so it took us actually more than a...

Passengers and the ship at all times. he -- thats a responsibility that he has. >> so youre not surprised that hes been arrested, charged apparently with manslaughter and other crimes. are you surprised at that? >> well, first of all, this was a terrible tragedy. this was a shocking tragedy because this -- this industry has an outstanding safety record and when an incident occurs like this affecting so many people, it is in fact a real tragedy and the italian officials are doing exactly what the...

I dont know what it was. but at that time, the ship started tilting slowly to one side. we were waiting for it to stop but it kept tilting until everything started falling off the tables and the chair started rolling. >> oh, no. david, were looking at some of the video that you shot with your camera. it looks like youre in one of the dining areas. when you realized what was happening, did it seem to you like you were in some sort of a disaster movie? >> it -- the beginning, i was very calm. i di...

Boat and left the boat around midnight, there were still people on the boat and the coast guard said to him you have to go back on the boat, get these people off and he didnt go back. >> were looking at, by the way, live pictures right there. lets go back to the very first point that you made and that was, you know, the reason its there right now is because it came too close and youre suggesting that the captain drove the ship close to the island as a favor or a salute to the maitre d. >> exactl...

Manner which includes in the safe depth of water which it obviously wasnt. >> were just looking now at all the photos of this disaster area. you can see how rocky this coastline is. another allegation is that the captain is saying that those rocks werent on the map that he was looking at although that would be hard to know since apparently the other allegation is that he was either at the restaurant or in the bar. >> well, he obviously has other officers that can navigate that ship and are on wa...

You know, ive been doing these type of cases for 30 years representing people who have been involved in incidents and disasters on cruise ships. ive been doing that from miami for about 30 years. this is incredible. i thought ive seen everything. >> lets talk about seeing everything. two points, the law of the sea says captain is not supposed to be getting off that ship before everyone else. right? so thats a big deal criminally. right? >> absolutely. that captain is in charge of his ship and, y...