On 1/20/12 6:54 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
er I mean ship...
Costa Crociere SpA, which offered support to the captain in the hours
after the emergency, has now turned its back on the man who is under
investigation for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his
ship. Schettino, who was jailed after he left the ship, is under house
arrest near Naples.
Costa in recent days has suspended Schettino, announced it is no longer
paying his legal fees and has signed on as a civil party in the
prosecution, a move that positions it as an injured party and would
allow it to seek damages in the case of a guilty verdict.


The Captain had apparently done the same thing 3-4 times before. Wonder
why nobody from the company bothered to check the route he took those
times. It would show the same deviation from the course. They spend a
lot of time tracking the course on paper charts... doesn't anybody
bother looking at them?

Or the former senior captain that the current captain was waving to and
on the phone with, wonder why he never bothered to call the company
about the unsafe maneuver his former subordinate was performing?

Or even the junior officers who were on the bridge. A simple phone call
to the head office, even if confidentially, that the captain was
repeatedly deviating from the course could have solved the problem.