What is supposed to happen if the ship is in trouble?

[Iluvcruising2]

I had thought that if the ship is in trouble, the officers and crew are supposed to selflessly help the passengers evacuate.

 

If that is the case, what in the world happened on board the Costa Concordia? Why was no officer on the ship co-ordinating the evacuation?

 

BBC article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16638399

 

Costa Concordia: Giglio official 'never saw Schettino'

 

As the Costa Concordia was sinking, the deputy mayor of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Mario Pellegrini, went on board to join the rescue effort. He told Outlook on the BBC World Service how he reacted when he realised the ship was in trouble.

 

"I met the mayor and immediately we devised a plan to co-ordinate the evacuation of the people, so I decided to go on a tender and to go on board. My first duty was to look for an officer on the boat in order to co-ordinate the evacuation.

 

I took the first tender that arrived at the port with the first evacuated passengers. I took this tender all by myself and went on board. I went up and I started looking for an officer.

 

After 20 minutes I couldn't find anybody. I even went on the higher bridges of the ship and even then I couldn't see anybody.

 

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By the time I left the ship, I was literally exhausted. In the last moments, when the dinghy down at the sea was full of professional rescuers, I was on the part of the bridge where I had been for quite a long time, holding old people, babies and so on.

 

Because I was so tired and wasn't concentrating, I fell down and nearly broke my neck.

 

I never saw the captain; the only officer I saw was the young officer, a boy really. I didn't see anyone else."

 

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[paul929207]

The captains says he tripped and fell into a lifeboat. Yeah right!!

[KirkNC]

I had thought that if the ship is in trouble, the officers and crew are supposed to selflessly help the passengers evacuate.

 

If that is the case, what in the world happened on board the Costa Concordia? Why was no officer on the ship co-ordinating the evacuation?

 

BBC article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16638399

 

Costa Concordia: Giglio official 'never saw Schettino'

 

As the Costa Concordia was sinking, the deputy mayor of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Mario Pellegrini, went on board to join the rescue effort. He told Outlook on the BBC World Service how he reacted when he realised the ship was in trouble.

 

"I met the mayor and immediately we devised a plan to co-ordinate the evacuation of the people, so I decided to go on a tender and to go on board. My first duty was to look for an officer on the boat in order to co-ordinate the evacuation.

 

I took the first tender that arrived at the port with the first evacuated passengers. I took this tender all by myself and went on board. I went up and I started looking for an officer.

 

After 20 minutes I couldn't find anybody. I even went on the higher bridges of the ship and even then I couldn't see anybody.

 

..................

 

By the time I left the ship, I was literally exhausted. In the last moments, when the dinghy down at the sea was full of professional rescuers, I was on the part of the bridge where I had been for quite a long time, holding old people, babies and so on.

 

Because I was so tired and wasn't concentrating, I fell down and nearly broke my neck.

 

I never saw the captain; the only officer I saw was the young officer, a boy really. I didn't see anyone else."

 

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They are and I think the vast majority would.