Captain Of Cruise Ship That Sank In Italy

More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died.

Captain of cruise ship that sank in italy. Captain Francesco Schettino was this. Costa Concordia cruise liner captain Francesco Schettino R is escorted by a Carabinieri in Grosseto January 14 2012. If passenger accounts are correct Captain Schettino will long be considered a coward who abandoned his responsibilities and duties after wrecking the Concordia and killing scores.

Italys shipwreck captain. Captain Francesco Schettino was at the command of the cruise liner in January 2012 when it hit rocks off the coast of Tuscany and sank killing 32 people. In an unregulated industry which looks for a scapegoat the cruise line will focus on an irresponsible and renegade captain as the sole cause of the disaster which unfolded this weekend.

Dubbed Captain Coward by international media Francesco Schettino argued that he was nothing more than a solitary scapegoat for a cruise ship disaster that claimed the lives of 32 people. Captain Francesco Schettino left the ship as it sank and was convicted on 32 counts of manslaughter. Schettino allowed back on stricken vessel amid manslaughter probe.

Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy. In 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Tuscany claiming 32 lives. The captain of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Sinking When the Costa Concordia a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation partly sank last year off Giglio Italy killing 32 people after hitting a submerged rock it was one of the first times a cruise ship had done so since the Explorer in. Schettino is charged with multiple manslaughter over the 32 people who lost their lives and is accused of abandoning the ship while terrified passengers were still inside in the January 13 2012 disaster. Captain Francesco Schettino was on the bridge when the ship hit.

Schettino the captain of the Italian cruise liner that ran aground off Italys west coast was arrested on the charges of multiple manslaughter causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship police said. Francesco Schettino the captain of the Costa Concordia returned on Thursday to the stricken cruise ship more than two years after leaving it in a. Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.