Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

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.

Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. Can a captain leave a sinking ship. One of the most shocking cruise ship facts is a jail cell hidden away at the bottom of the vessel in the crew areas. 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.

The captain initially said the ship was about 300 metres 330 yd from the shore about the length of the vessel and hit an uncharted rock. Officials have suggested that he left the boat before all of the. The most famous perhaps is the captain of the Titanic EJ.

Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy. The captain of the capsized Italian cruise ship has insisted he was last to leave the sinking ship as he gave his account of the disaster. Can a captain leave a sinking ship.

I find it very hard to understand how any captain under such dire. 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. 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.

Instead the cruise ship entertainers suddenly found themselves running the rescue on their own. An old seamans yarn tells of Hendrik Kurt Carlsen the Danish captain of the US freighter Flying Enterprise who in 1951 held out all day as the last man on board his ship which was sinking in. A video has emerged allegedly showing the captain of the Costa Concordia ship preparing to leave the sinking cruise liner while hundreds of passengers were still on board.

In the following cases captains abandoned their responsibilities leaving hundreds of people to die. Lee Jun-Seok who was one of the first to flee from the ferry as it sank on Wednesday. But not on the Costa Concordia.