One British survivor of the disaster, which claimed 12 lives with 20 people still missing, branded the offer as "insulting". 
 
 It was disclosed that in an attempt to help survivors the ship's parent company, Carnival, has been telephoning passengers daily asking if they are suffering nightmares or sleepless nights. 
 
 But that move also appeared to backfire when a psychologist said such questioning could trigger post traumatic stress rather than relieve it. 
 
 A little over a week after the ship capsized off the coast of Tuscany, it also emerged that: 
 
 • An emergency services log showed that the Concordia's captain, Francisco Schettino, abandoned ship more than four hours before the last passenger. 
 
 • A separate voice recording showed Capt Schettino pledging to be the last man on the ship, suggesting erratic behaviour and that he lied to the authorities. 
 
 • Divers recovered the ship's safe from the captain's cabin along with the body of a woman they found in a submerged corridor 
 
 The offer for future discounts is being made by Costa Cruises, which operated the Concordia and whose parent company is Carnival, the world's largest cruise operator. 
 
 Passengers were also being sent letters by Costa detailing how to claim for lost valuables and offering a full refund on the voyage. 
 
 Lawyers plan to sue both in the US and in Italy, with more than 100 passengers already reported to have joined a class action that is to be lodged in Miami this week. 
 
 Each is reported to be demanding between £100,000 and £1 million in compensation. 
 
 A spokesman for Costa Cruises said: "The company is trying to do everything they can for those passengers directly affected. 
 
 "The company is not only going to refund everybody but they will offer a 30 per cent discount on future cruises if they want to stay loyal to the company." 
 
 Costa's chief executive, Pier Luigi Foschi, who estimated that the impact of the disaster on his firm was £60 million, had expressed confidence that the group would be able to "find a solution that, in the material sense, would satisfy" the passengers. 
 
 However, Brian Page, 63, a retired accountant from Southampton, who survived by sliding from one side of the deck to another to find a lifeboat, said: "It is a ridiculous and insulting offer. I'm very disappointed in them. 
 
 "They are not accepting their responsibilities at all. Our only back-up is separate legal action." 
 
 Costa Cruises has laid the blame on Capt Schettino, who steered the liner on to rocks and then abandoned ship before all the passengers got off. 
 
 But lawyers for the passengers will claim that Costa Cruise ships had "regularly" deviated from the correct route. 
 
 The ongoing civil legal battle is complicated by the criminal case against Capt Schettino and the specific contracts signed by passengers. 
 
 Last week, Carnival began phoning British passengers asking if they were suffering nightmares, sleepless nights and needed counselling. 
 
 Mr Page and other passengers, including Janice and Ian Donoff, from north London, and Edwin and Liz Gurd, from Hampshire, received calls. 
 
 Lawyers, however, have questioned the company's motives. 
 
 Clive Garner, head of the travel law team at Irwin Mitchell, who represents at least one British passenger, said: "I would advise Carnival to desist from doing this. 
 
 "In other large-scale incidents, defendants have been very keen to liaise with victims early on with a view to making low offers of settlement." 
 
 Jill Greenfield, a personal injury partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse who has successfully sued Carnival in the past, said: "The poor people on this ship will still be in shock and not yet realise what they have been through. 
 
 "It may be that Carnival are genuinely trying to help but what they should be doing is telling these people to get some legal advice." 
 
 Jennifer Wild, a consultant clinical psychologist at Oxford University and King's College London, said repeatedly asking victims if they were having nightmares breached guidelines on treating people after disasters. 
 
 The questions are likely to feed anxiety and possibly even lead to post-traumatic stress, she said. 
 
 "They may be doing it because they just want to monitor people but this is not helpful," she said. 
 
 Further details of Capt Schettino's erratic behaviour were disclosed with the publication of the official log kept by the harbour master's office, which coordinated the rescue. 
 
 The log shows how the captain, who is under house arrest, first played down the crisis and then abandoned ship more than four hours before the last passenger. 
 
 Further voice recordings add to the confusion, with Capt Schettino claiming to coastguards that he will remain on ship as the last man. 
 
 "I'm the only one who will stay here," he told the coastguards in a tape that will be used by prosecutors to support their contention that he lied to port authorities on the night of the disaster and that he abandoned his post in contravention of the naval code. 
 
 Divers exploring the cruise ship recovered a safe from the captain's cabin on the instructions of the prosecutors. They believe it may contain documents or other evidence that could help their investigation. 
 
 The body of a 12th victim was found inside the hull of the £370 million, 1,000ft vessel. The victim, a woman, was found wearing a life jacket on the fourth deck, close to a muster station. ||||| Pier Paolo Cito/AP Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies on Jan. 22. 
 
 Survivors of the Costa Concordia wreck are being offered 30% off future cruises with the company — a sales pitch that was not received with much gratitude Sunday. 
 
 “It is a ridiculous and insulting offer,” survivor Brian Page, a retired British accountant, told The Telegraph of London, which first reported the discount offer. 
 
 “The company is not only going to refund everybody, but they will offer a 30% discount on future cruises if they want to stay loyal to the company,” said a spokesman for Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of industry leader Carnival Cruise Lines. 
 
 But survivors want considerably more than a third off another cruise. 
 
 They plan to file a class-action suit Wednesday in Miami, where Carnival is based, seeking $160,000 a passenger — or almost $513 million if all 3,206 passengers were to be paid. 
 
 Pier Paolo Cito/AP Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies on Jan. 22. 
 
 The cruise line blames hapless Capt. Francesco Schettino for running the luxury liner on to rocks off the Tuscan coast on Jan. 13, holding him fully responsible for killing at least 30 people. 
 
 But Schettino told a judge last week that his bosses not only knew he was going to sail perilously close to the island of Giglio — they told him to do it as a form of “advertising” for the cruise line. 
 
 “The Giglio salute on Jan 13 was planned with the company before we departed from Civitavecchia,” Schettino said, according to leaked excerpts from his 135-page statement published Sunday in the Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Il Messaggeo. 
 
 “We meant to do it the week before, but it was not possible because of bad weather,” he said. 
 
 Giacomo Aprili/AP Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies on Jan. 22. 
 
 Meanwhile, prosecutors were hunting for the laptop Schettino took with him when he abandoned ship and that he hastily handed to a mystery blond moments before he was arrested. 
 
 La Repubblica said prosecutors had identified the woman as a lawyer, but that it was unclear if she was working for the cruise line or not. 
 
 In his statement, Schettino also denied bringing a young Moldovan dancer onto the bridge to impress her with the “sail-by” of Giglio. 
 
 “She wasn’t on the bridge because I don’t let anyone go there,” he said. 
 
 hkennedy@nydailynews.com
– The cruise line that operated the doomed Costa Concordia has a strange way of compensating the victims of its shipwreck—30% discounts off a future cruise, provided survivors stick with Costa Cruises, reports the New York Daily News. “The company is not only going to refund everybody, but they will offer a 30% discount on future cruises if they want to stay loyal to the company,” said a spokesman for the cruise line. There's been no word of any refunds for flights customers have bought for future Concordia cruises. “It is a ridiculous and insulting offer,” says one survivor. Instead, lawsuits are being launched against Costa Cruises in Italy and the US, with 100 survivors expected to join a class action suit against the company this week in Miami. Passengers in the Miami lawsuit are seeking about $160,000 each, which would total $513 million for all 3,206 passengers. Costa Cruises also denied yesterday reports it had unregistered passengers on the Concordia, according to the New York Times.