Survivor of Italian cruise ship disaster: ’It was trip from Hell’

Washington’s Lynn Kaelin, a survivor of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, on Wednesday recalled the night when the ship ran aground and started taking on water. She said it was complete chaos, and that the crew lied to the Americans on board. “It was the trip from Hell,” Kaelin said from her home in Puyallup. “It was just like being on the Titanic.” On Jan. 13, Kaelin and her friend had only been on the ship for three hours when they sat down to enjoy dinner.