Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

South Korean authorities have arrested Capt.

Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. 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. Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino leaves after a session of the trial in the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster on April 15 2013 in Grossetto. 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.

Enzo RussoEPA The captain of a doomed luxury liner that struck a reef off the. More recently Captain Yianis Avranas left his stricken cruise ship the Oceanos as it was sinking off the coast. The Greek liner was listing in heavy seas with 170 passengers still on board when the captain left.

In 1991 Yiannis Avranas the captain of a Greek cruise liner was also strongly criticised after leaving the ship as it started to sink off the South African coast. The captain is not expected to go down with the ship but is expected to be the last to leave Braynard said. The captain is the last person to leave the sinking ship veteran cruise ship commander Capt.

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. The tradition says that a captain will be the last person to leave a ship alive before its sinking or utter destruction and if unable to evacuate the crew and passengers the captain will not save himself even if he can. 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.

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. Can a captain leave a sinking ship. Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy.

Most ships have a morgue that can hold one to three bodies. 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. In the following cases captains abandoned their responsibilities leaving hundreds of people to die.