Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

Officials have suggested that he left the boat before all of the.

Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. Or at least the captain is the last to leave a sinking vessel. But not on the Costa Concordia. Smith who evacuated the ship -- women and children first -- until there were no lifeboats left and then perished with it.

In the following cases captains abandoned their responsibilities leaving hundreds of people to die. The Greek liner was listing in heavy seas with 170 passengers still on board when the captain left. Social and legal responsibility.

I cant lift my face before the passengers and family members. Passengers aboard the stricken Costa cruise ship say that they observed Italian Master Francesco Schettino draped in a blanket aboard a lifeboat heading to safety as the vessels crew and passengers struggled for their lives. More recently Captain Yianis Avranas left his stricken cruise ship the Oceanos as it was sinking off the coast.

Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy. Its very much an accepted tradition that the captain is responsible for the lives. The ships 154 passengers including 24 Britons escaped alive in the November 2007 incident largely thanks to unusually benign weather conditions according to the report which will add to growing.

When a passenger cruise liner sinks most people imagine it will be women and children first into the ships lifeboats and that the captain and crew will be the last to leave. One of the most shocking cruise ship facts is a jail cell hidden away at the bottom of the vessel in the crew areas. Captain Francesco Schettino was detained yesterday on suspicion of multiple manslaughter after the boat ran aground off the Tuscan coast.

The most famous perhaps is the captain of the Titanic EJ. The master of the cruise ship MV Oceanos who in the fall of 1991 off the coast of Africa breached this custom by fleeing his sinking ship while hundreds of passengers remained aboard soon learned the dishonor that attends such a too- hasty abandonment. South Korean authorities have arrested Capt.