Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

I cant lift my face before the passengers and family members.

Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. Onboard the sinking Oceanos this did not happen. 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. Or at least the captain is the last to leave a sinking vessel.

Officials have suggested that he left the boat before all of the. But not on the Costa Concordia. 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.

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 captain is the last person to leave the sinking ship veteran cruise ship commander Capt. 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.

Instead the cruise ship entertainers suddenly found themselves running the rescue on their own. Enzo RussoEPA The captain of a doomed luxury liner that struck a reef off the. Its very much an accepted tradition that the captain is responsible for the lives.

What was the last cruise ship to sink. He said he supervised the. Smith who evacuated the ship -- women and children first -- until there were no lifeboats left and then perished with it.

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 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 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.