Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

But not on the Costa Concordia.

Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. More recently Captain Yianis Avranas left his stricken cruise ship the Oceanos as it was sinking off the coast. 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. 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.

Social and legal responsibility. 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. He said he supervised the.

Enzo RussoEPA The captain of a doomed luxury liner that struck a reef off the. Officials have suggested that he left the boat before all of the. Most ships have a morgue that can hold one to three bodies.

Instead the cruise ship entertainers suddenly found themselves running the rescue on their own. 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. 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.

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. South Korean authorities have arrested Capt. Its very much an accepted tradition that the captain is responsible for the lives.

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. 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. Smith who evacuated the ship -- women and children first -- until there were no lifeboats left and then perished with it.