Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

Can a captain leave a sinking ship.

Captain leaves sinking cruise ship. 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. Captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino r is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy. 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 is not expected to go down with the ship but is expected to be the last to leave Braynard said. 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. I find it very hard to understand how any captain under such dire.

More recently Captain Yianis Avranas left his stricken cruise ship the Oceanos as it was sinking off the coast. Instead the cruise ship entertainers suddenly found themselves running the rescue on their own. 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.

Smith who evacuated the ship -- women and children first -- until there were no lifeboats left and then perished with it. Lee Jun-Seok who was one of the first to flee from the ferry as it sank on Wednesday. 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.

South Korean authorities have arrested 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. The Greek liner was listing in heavy seas with 170 passengers still on board when the captain left.

Onboard the sinking Oceanos this did not happen. One of the most shocking cruise ship facts is a jail cell hidden away at the bottom of the vessel in the crew areas. Most ships have a morgue that can hold one to three bodies.