Cruise ship runs aground in Italy

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I'm not the kind of person who would ever be in such a situation, but still...

I wonder if that person will ever be able to look in the eyes of any survivor, personally I'd rather have drowned.

In the olden days it would have fell on the First Officer to shoot the Captain for abandoning ship.

Listening to the recording of the phone call the First Officer was on the rescue boat as well.
 
I'm not the kind of person who would ever be in such a situation, but still...

I wonder if that person will ever be able to look in the eyes of any survivor, personally I'd rather have drowned.



Listening to the recording of the phone call the First Officer was on the rescue boat as well.

That is why we have a chain of command.
 
Wow, so a captain can actually get into legal trouble for leaving a sinking ship?
Compare Schettino's actions to those of Captain Sullenberger after Flight 1549 went down in the Hudson. He saved everyone's lives with a remarkable water landing, calmly evacuated the passengers and crew, searched the aisles twice to make sure the plane was empty, and was the last to leave the plane.

That's a captain carrying out his duty. He is responsible for the lives in his care.
 
I'm hearing a lot about strikes in the whole of Sicily currently, is this related to it or something different?
 
The Big Picture has totally sweet high resoolution photos up

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01/costa_concordia_cruise_ship_ru.html

This thing is so awesome. I hope somebody make a FPS level out of it.




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Infrared image taken by the Italian coast guard showing the passengers exiting the belly of the ship single file onto a rescue boat.
 
He has support in his hometown. In circumstances like this, there seem to be two prominent outcomes: a) no answers for the tragedy can be given for a while and the media get upset or 2) all the answers seemingly arrive quickly and it usually involves one or two people, and so I suppose people are assuming the Captain is being a scapegoat.

So what we do have here so far, an incompetent captain, an embarrassing coward and now having sex with two women just before. Only thing missing is a stash of child porn in his home and someone claiming they smelt alcohol on him and the picture is complete.
 
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Infrared image taken by the Italian coast guard showing the passengers exiting the belly of the ship single file onto a rescue boat.


...yeah. that's fucking crazy. what a nice ordered line. i think if i was within view of an italian coast i'd just be like "FUCK YALL!!!!!!" and run and jump and try to swim.
 
...yeah. that's fucking crazy. what a nice ordered line. i think if i was within view of an italian coast i'd just be like "FUCK YALL!!!!!!" and run and jump and try to swim.

The thing is pictures of that night show it was pitch black. And if you are terrified and its pitch black you may be hesitant to hop in at random when it appears relatively safe to wait a few minutes to get into a life boat. Plus apparently some of the deaths are those who jumped in too early and got sucked in by the ship sinking.
 
Not to take away anything on the human toll this has caused, but I can't wait for the inevitable Discovery/National Geographic channel documentaries involving salvaging this hunk of sinking metal.
 
Carnival made a formal settlement offer, $14,000 per passenger.

Obviously, accepting the settlement forfeits your ability to sue.


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This is in addition of travel and medical costs. And I don't think it is offered to the estates of the deceased and missing, only the survivors. At least according to NPR.
 
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