Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

Can a captain leave a sinking ship.

Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. South Korean authorities have arrested Capt. The captain is the last person to leave the sinking ship veteran cruise ship commander Capt. Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy.

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. The masters actions during the sinking of the Oceanos raised a number of questions. In the following cases captains abandoned their responsibilities leaving hundreds of people to die.

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. In 2012 when the Costa Concordia cruise ship sunk off the coast of Italy Captain Francesco Schettino was brought up on criminal charges for abandoning the ship ahead of his passengers. Its very much an accepted tradition that the captain is responsible for the lives.

What was the last cruise ship to sink. Instead the cruise ship entertainers suddenly found themselves running the rescue on their own. The Greek liner was listing in heavy seas with 170 passengers still on board when the captain left.

The captain is not expected to go down with the ship but is expected to be the last to leave Braynard said. 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. But not on the Costa Concordia.

The most famous perhaps is the captain of the Titanic EJ. 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.