Captain Leaves Sinking Cruise Ship

The master of the cruise ship MV Oceanos who in the fall of 1991 off the coast of Africa breached this custom by fleeing his sinking ship while hundreds of passengers remained aboard soon learned the dishonor that attends such a too- hasty abandonment.

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. Enzo RussoEPA The captain of a doomed luxury liner that struck a reef off the. The captain is the last person to leave the sinking ship veteran cruise ship commander Capt.

Lee Jun-Seok who was one of the first to flee from the ferry as it sank on Wednesday. South Korean authorities have arrested Capt. But not on the Costa Concordia.

Officials have suggested that he left the boat before all of the. Or at least the captain is the last to leave a sinking vessel. William Wright told ABC News.

Social and legal responsibility. More recently Captain Yianis Avranas left his stricken cruise ship the Oceanos as it was sinking off the coast. He said he supervised the.

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. One of the most shocking cruise ship facts is a jail cell hidden away at the bottom of the vessel in the crew areas. 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. 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 most famous perhaps is the captain of the Titanic EJ.