Costa Concordia sinking

Too bad Italy doesn't believe in capital punishment.

 

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The Coast Guard guy is fantastic. The captain...wow, what a sorry excuse for a captain of a ship.

 

I think cruise boat captains just took a major hit in street cred.

 

This captain is worse than the captain of the Exxon Valdez who at least could blame things on being drunk.

 

this is the skit i was referencing in my previous post.

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I wouldn't set foot on that ship, if they salvage it and use it again.

The whole thing sounds horrible. I'd like to think i could deal with myself, and maybe anothe able adult, but imagine being responsible for your children at the same time? Or an elderly person? The worst part is not knowing what's going on, which would help you decide where to go and what to do.

 

cruise boat captains had street cred?

 

I'm not the biggest proponent of the death penalty but this schmuck does not deserve to live.

 

Perhaps the ship lost power? That i often the case when ships deviate from their path like this.

 

BREAKING NEWS - An Italian reporter claims the captain had noticeable fear boner when refusing to return to sinking cruise ship.

 

When you go on a cruise the captain always walks around like a boss, then there is some BS captains dinner or something. Now I am guessing their ability to get laid has significantly decreased.

And to just go ahead and one up you guys on captain pictures:

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you guys seem to have some romanticized idea on the duties and fortitude of a ship captain, most likely from what you have gathered in movies. A captain must go down with his ship! Lol. The guy is a hired cheauffer of a f-ing carnival cruise ship, not some grizzled war hero who is abandoning his battleship.

so he's somewhat of a p***y. The bigger story here is how him and the rest of the crew was seemingly untrained and ill-equipped to handle this catastrophe. Carnival sure couldn't be doing any better of a job of taking the blame off themselves and placing it on one person in an effort to save their image, that's for sure.

 

So you're okay with some shirking their duties because you would? You okay with your pilot putting on a parachute and taking off because you don't romanticize what he should be doing?

 

How is it scapegoating? The major onus is on him. Like you said, there were failures on multiple levels that were brought to light because HE caused it.