Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship
Enzo RussoEPA The captain of a doomed luxury liner that struck a reef off the.
Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy. The captain is the last person to leave the sinking ship veteran cruise ship commander Capt. Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino is jailed for 16 years for the manslaughter of 32 people who died when the cruise ship sank in 2012.
I cant lift my face before the passengers and family members. The ships first officer Ciro Ambrosio told investigators Schettino had left his reading glasses in his cabin and repeatedly asked Ambrosio to check the radar for him. Onboard the sinking Oceanos this did not happen.
In the following cases captains abandoned their responsibilities leaving hundreds of people to die. A investigation into the sinking of the expedition cruise ship Explorer in Antarctic waters places the blame squarely on the vessels captain who was making his first voyage in the area. What was the last cruise ship to sink.
Social and legal responsibility. More recently Captain Yianis Avranas left his stricken cruise ship the Oceanos as it was sinking off the coast. Captain Francesco Schettino was detained yesterday on suspicion of multiple manslaughter after the boat ran aground off the Tuscan coast.
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. Smith who evacuated the ship -- women and children first -- until there were no lifeboats left and then perished with it. Most ships have a morgue that can hold one to three bodies.
Or at least the captain is the last to leave a sinking vessel. Lee Jun-Seok who was one of the first to flee from the ferry as it sank on Wednesday. Captain Coward fled from sinking cruise liner Costa Concordia leaving 300 passengers and crew to their fate Francesco Schettino was at the command of cruise liner in January 2012.
