Captain Of Cruise Ship That Sank In Italy

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 of cruise ship that sank in italy. Various eyewitness accounts indicate that Schettino had been showing off to a female acquaintance moments before he crashed the Costa Concordia. 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. 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. The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy Italian news agency Ansa said 4165 out of the 4234 people on-board were safe but did. According to the harbor masters office the.

The Italian captain went back onboard the wreck for the first time since the sinking of the cruise ship on January 13 2012 as part of his. In 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Tuscany claiming 32 lives. Francesco Schettino were charged with various crimes.

Captain Francesco Schettino was on the bridge when the ship hit. 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. Costa Concordia cruise liner captain Francesco Schettino R is escorted by a Carabinieri in Grosseto January 14 2012.

The court also ordered Captain Schettino and the company that operated the ship Costa Cruises to pay damages of 30000 euros or about 34000 in compensation to each passenger and several. 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. Schettino allowed back on stricken vessel amid manslaughter probe.

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. 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. The captain of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison.