Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

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

Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. Most ships have a morgue that can hold one to three bodies. 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. What was the last cruise ship to sink.

But not on the Costa Concordia. 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. Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy.

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. Can a captain leave a sinking ship. Onboard the sinking Oceanos this did not happen.

I find it very hard to understand how any captain under such dire. I cant lift my face before the passengers and family members. Or at least the captain is the last to leave a sinking vessel.

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. 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. 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 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. 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 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.