Cruise Ship Survivor Stories Survivors of the wreckage of an Italian cruise ship are describing gritty moments of survival, tentative farewells and heartbreaking loss. The Titanic-like vignettes emerged from the capsized Costa Concordia which hit a rock just 450 feet from shore on Friday night, took on water and keeled over. At least six people died and 14 are still missing. Husband Sacrifices His Life to Save His Wife One of the six persons to die on the Concordia did so in order to save his wife. "I owe my life to my husband," Nicole Servel, 61, whose husband, Francis, gave her the only life jacket they had, told AFP. He said to me 'jump, jump'. And as I don't know how to swim, he gave me his life jacket. I was hesitant about jumping. So he went first. Then I jumped. I floated on my back," she told RTL radio. The cruise had been a gift from the French couple's children in celebration of Nicole's 60th birthday. I called to him. He shouted back: 'Don't worry! I'll be all right.' The water was barely eight degrees. And then, I never saw him again," she said. Servel told RTL she was in the water until she was washed up against some rocks from where villagers rescued her and took her to a church to recover in the warmth. There was no one to save my husband... We were alone," she said of the captain and crew's abandonment of their ship's passengers. Lifeboat Becomes Lifeline for Marriage Australian miner Rob Elcombe and his wife, Tracey Gunn, told Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper they booked a spot on the Concordia as a last ditch effort to save their marriage. Instead, the couple found themselves trying to save their lives when they boarded the very last lifeboat to leave the ship with survivors. "This has made our bond much, much stronger," Elcombe told the paper. Who needs couples counseling, when you survive a Titanic experience? Honeymoon Turns Into Titanic-Like Story "It was every man for himself," Emily Lau, a passenger from Boston on board the Costa Concordia, said today on "Good Morning America." Lau, 27, was on board the Costa Concordia luxury liner with her husband of 14 days, Benji Smith, 34, to celebrate their honeymoon with a cruise along the Mediterranean. Lau and Smith joined a handful of passengers in making a last minute escape from the sinking ship by tying a rope and sheets into knots that they then used as a ladder to lower themselves them down to the bottom of the ship's hole, where they were eventually rescued by a lifeboat. We had to improvise. There was no instruction," Smith said. No one was telling us what to do. iPad App Tells Couple It's Time to Jump Crew Member Posts to Facebook Before Rescue Rose Metcalf, a 23-year-old Briton working as a dancer on the ship, turned to her computer when she did not think she would make it out of the ship alive. My name is Rose, it's Friday the 13th and I'm one of the last survivors still on board the sinking cruise ship off the coast of Italy. Pray for us to be rescued," she wrote in a post to her mom on Facebook. British media report Metcalf and her boyfriend, an engineer on the ship, climbed the sinking ship's railings and lashed themselves to a pole with a water hose to avoid falling. "By the end there were about five of us, and we were the last to get off," she told BBC television, according to the UK Telegraph. Magician Escapes Coffin Just in Time Rosalyn Rincon, a 30-year-old magician's assistant, found herself stuck inside a magician's trick box when the Concordia hit the rocks. She was in the middle of magic show [when it ran aground], inside a magic box. And then all the lights went out so she struggled to get out of the box," Rincon's mother, Claire Rincon, told BBC News. Rincon, who suffered cuts and bruises but managed to escape both the coffin and the ship safely, called her mom as the ship was keeling over. Rosalyn was a bit hysterical, saying the ship was sinking. But seeing she's a dancer and they do drama, I just thought it was all a bit surreal," she said. You don't hear about big ships sinking like that nowadaysâ¦ Couple Calls Home to Finalize Will, Say Goodbye to Kids Irish couple Seamus and Carol Moore phoned home to the friend watching their three kids as they watched lifeboats pass them by from the cruise ship, which they took to celebrate Carol's 50th birthday. "I told my friend that my will was with my solicitor and to make sure that my kids were looked after," Seamus Moore told the Irish Mail. At that point we didn't know what way it was going to go. "We told him to tell the kids that we loved them but asked him not to tell our daughter Claire what was going on unless the worst happened â because she had an exam to sit the following morning," he said.