Italy Cruise Ship Captain Abandoned
It was a case of a captain hot-dogging and showing off his apparently limited navigation skills to a retired master mariner ashore.
Italy cruise ship captain abandoned. 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. At least five people are confirmed dead and another 30. The final and most dramatic call took place at 146am when after confirming that he was speaking to the captain a coastguard.
What happened to the captain of the Italian cruise ship. In 2015 he was sentenced to sixteen years in prison for his role in the incident. The cruise ship capsized after hitting rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio.
Captain Francesco Schettino was on the bridge when the ship hit. Francesco Schettino denied he had abandoned ship before passengers and crew were evacuated. Im here Schettino replied.
An Italian appeals court has upheld the 16-year. The Costa Concordia was one of the best cruise ships in the world with 1500 cabins a multi-level theater a casino and could accommodate over 4000 passengers at a time. Rescue teams are racing to find about 40 people who are still unaccounted for after a cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Italy killing at least three.
The Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian coast in 2012 killing 32 people. 17 2012 -- An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the doomed cruise ship Costa Concordia be released on house arrest following his first appearance in court today after he allegedly. The captain of the cruise ship that sank off Italys coast leaving some 39 people dead or missing was ordered to return aboard from a lifeboat to oversee his ships evacuation according to.
40 Photos of Cruise Ship Left Abandoned For Years. Italian cruise ship captain gets 16-year jail sentence Accusations included manslaughter causing shipwreck and abandoning ship while passengers were still aboard. Schettino was sentenced in 2015 after a court found him guilty of manslaughter causing a maritime accident and abandoning ship.
