Members of the Carabinieri in a boat travel past the Costa Concordia cruise ship which ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island January 19, 2012. 
 
 ROME A coast guard officer's "Get back on board damn it!" order to the fleeing captain of the capsized Costa Concordia liner is being printed on T-shirts by a company hoping to inspire Italians to rescue their country from economic crisis. 
 
 Italians have made a hero of coast guard officer Gregorio De Falco for his angry exchange with skipper Francesco Schettino -- who has been blamed for the accident and is now under house arrest accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. 
 
 Stefano Ramponi, owner of the Lipsiasoft web agency that is producing the T-shirts and selling them on the Internet for 12.9 euros ($16.63), said they had become an instant hit both in Italy and abroad. 
 
 "We have had a lot of requests from all over the world, from Brazil, Hong Kong, also from Germany and France, the UK. Everyone is asking us for it," he said. 
 
 He said he had been criticised by some people for making money out of the January 13 disaster, in which 11 people died and 21 are still missing. 
 
 But he hoped the slogan would become a rallying cry for all Italians to shoulder their responsibilities and work together to navigate through recession and get the euro zone's third largest economy back on course. 
 
 "We liked this phrase a lot because it was said by Captain De Falco in an extremely difficult situation, it really impressed us," Ramponi said. 
 
 "We wanted to... distribute it en-masse...particularly to all the people in Italy who don't concentrate on their jobs, who don't give their all and do harm to Italy in this time of crisis, difficulty and economic hardship." 
 
 The furious telephone exchange between De Falco and Schettino, in which Costa Concordia captain was ordered in vain to return to his ship and oversee the rescue operations, has been played over the media to millions. 
 
 The Italian word De Falco used, "cazzo" in Italian, literally is slang for penis but it is also commonly used to emphasize something. 
 
 De Falco has since been called a national hero while newspapers have branded Schettino a coward for fleeing in the face of adversity. 
 
 (Reporting By Hanna Rantala, editing by Paul Casciato) 

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 The coast guard officer who has been made a hero for ordering the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to "get back on board damn it!" has been further immortalized...on T-shirts. 
 
 Stefano Ramponi, owner of the Lipsiasoft web agency that is producing the T-shirts and selling them online for $16.63, told Reuters that they had already become an instant hit both in Italy and abroad. 
 
 "We have had a lot of requests from all over the world, from Brazil, Hong Kong, also from Germany and France, the UK. Everyone is asking us for it," he said. 
 
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 Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia, has been accused of causing last week's shipwreck, as well as abandoning the liner and refusing to go back inside to help with rescue efforts. Schettino is currently under house arrest for manslaughter and abandoning his ship. 
 
 Coast guard officer Gregorio De Falco has been made a national hero for shouting at Schettino to return to the wreck, which left 11 people dead. 
 
 Though there is a full transcript of the discussion between Schettino and De Falco, the phrase "get back on board damn it!" really stuck. 
 
 "We liked this phrase a lot because it was said by Captain De Falco in an extremely difficult situation, it really impressed us," Ramponi, the T-shirt's creator, told Reuters. "We wanted to... distribute it en-masse...particularly to all the people in Italy who don't concentrate on their jobs, who don't give their all and do harm to Italy in this time of crisis, difficulty and economic hardship." 
 
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 Not surprisingly, copycats of the T-shirt have already popped up all over the internet. 
 
 http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/get-back-board-damn-it-t-shirts-italy-costa-concordia
– The Italian coast guard officer who ordered the Costa Concordia captain to get back on his foundering ship has entered the lexicon with his angry command. "Vada a bordo, cazzo!" T-shirts are all the rage in Italy, reports Reuters. The phrase has been translated into "Get back on board, dammit!," though it might be a little earthier given the all-purpose "cazzo" insult, more like "Get back on board, dick!" Italy's Lepiasoft web agency says it's taking orders from around the world, and GlobalPost notes that plenty of English-language knockoffs are available online, too. "We liked this phrase a lot because it was said by Captain (Gregorio) De Falco in an extremely difficult situation, it really impressed us," says the Lepiasoft owner, who hopes (maybe stretching things a wee bit too far) that it will become a motto for Italy as it tries to rebound financially.