Rose Metcalf helped guide 400 people off the sinking Costa Concordia, signalled rescuers with her earring

There was one Rose who was unable to save her lover, and there is one Rose who helped save the lives of 400 people aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship when it struck a giant granite reef, began to flood and tipped on its side.Rose Metcalf was working as a professional dancer aboard the cruise ship when the incident happened near Giglio Island in Italy at 9:45 pm local time on January 13, 2012. It took more than six hours to evacuate the ship, after which 32 people among the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members were confirmed dead.Thanks to Metcalf, who was just 23 years old at the time, the number of fatalities did not reach higher. Reflecting on her actions on the U.K. daytime show Good Morning Britain (GMB) on Friday, July 31, Metcalf joked that, as a dancer, she didn’t expect to have people’s lives in her hands.Despite being new to the ship, she said that she also quickly realised that many of the crew did not initially realise how serious the situation was, until the vessel began to tip over. “I was one of 12 fluent English speakers on board,” said Metcalf, who explained that she was tasked with doing a roll call of about 30 crew members as a result. “But I ended up being...