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They should hang him.
He is now being called the most hated man in Italy...
The transcripts show heated telephone exchanges took place between captain Schettino and harbour master officials in the hours after he struck the rocks at around 9.40pm on Friday evening.
At 9.49pm Schettino is asked: 'Is everything ok?' He replied: 'Yes, just a small technical problem.'
This was despite the hull having a 70m gash.
There was silence until half past midnight when officials managed to contact the captain - who by now had got off a lifeboat and safely on shore.
Hundreds of passengers were still onboard as the order to abandon ship had only been given an hour earlier.
An official at Livorno harbour asked: 'How many passengers are left to evacuate captain?' He answered: 'I've called the company and they say around 40.'
The official, who knew from reports at the scene that hundreds were still onboard, added: 'How come so few? Are you still onboard captain?'
Captain Schettino replied: 'No, I'm not onboard, the ship's beached, we have abandoned.' To which the shocked official responded: 'What? You have abandoned ship?' He answered: 'No, what are you talking about abandoning.'
Minutes later he was contacted again and told: 'Get back on board, get back to the ship and co-ordinate the rescue. You need to tell me how many people are onboard, how many women, how many children. You need to organise the rescue.
'Captain this is an order, I am in charge now, you have given the order to abandon ship and you need to get back to coordinate the rescue, OK. There are already bodies.'
Captain Schettino replied in a whisper: 'How many?' with the harbour master shouting at him: 'You tell me. What do you want to do? Go home? You now get back on board and tell me what you are going to do.'
He replied: 'Alright, I'm going'. But he failed to obey the order and instead was reportedly seen getting into a taxi which took him from Seagull Point, the reef where the Concordia had beached, to the harbour at Giglio.
They should hang him.
u know the ship belongs to the miami heat boss owner....lol just 1 of his 100th cruise ships
just another italian running away from their responsibilities...
will he be responsible for 22 deaths?
DUNNO but he shouldve gone down with the ship
I dont know if it is a rule that the captain has to be the last one to get off a sinking ship but he is a self preserving asshole.
Dude must have been drunk as .
Probably an athiest. Pussy.
Nah, since his actions were those of someone drunk, it stands to reason that he is an alcoholic. Then if he's an alcoholic, he's probably been in AA and believes in the higher power.
bb with the goods
what a piece of
I've been to AA meetings and I could tell you that 90% of those idiots don't believe in anything; they just temporarily believe in a "higher power" because most have to be there due to court orders. I asked your usual san anto thug one time, who had Jesus and virgin de Guadalupe tattoos all over his body that if he knew what the Virgin de Guadalupe means to the Mexican-American culture, and if he knew how to use that rosary he always wears. He didn't know about his supposed religious beliefs. Most people nowadays just use the "higher power" and Jesus as some sort of fad when they're going through tough times, then they reject all that once things start getting better in their lives.
All this conjecture when we really don't know enough.
Do such ship captains really have the duties of those in the past?
Country of origin registry would also matter for what his role really is. Now this most certainly looks bad for him, but I like more details before i form an opinion. He would probably just be in the way of those doing the rescue work. He could have been given bad information himself.
Ever see roles in an organization where you have a fall guy for when something does go wrong?
reminds me of this guy, ESPECIALLY from that anic episode
WTF!?!? You related to him or something?
Not at all.
He doesn't actually steer the ship or anything. Is he even required to be on the bridge when entering port? He can't be there 24/7. I really don't know how things are changed over the years.
Maybe he is a spineless head who deserves jail, but again, who knows the role of a cruise ship captain these days? Is it a job that is more le only?
My primary thing here is, showing other possibilities. Feel free to disassemble them and show they are not possible. If you only attack me, the messenger, than I will assume you have no valid reasons why such possibilities are wrong.
In the old days, before GPS, the Captain would be surveying the land and maps to navigate. Such thing now rely on GPS. Maybe Iran tried to hijack this ship?
I have to agree somewhat. It's not like the captain was sailing solo. Was he behind the wheel? there were probably at least a dozen crewmembers that could have prevented this somehow.
Yeah, the captain sounds straight from a Simpson's episode. Totally incompetent. But let me remind you the US had a president that was just as incompetent and responsible for thousands of deaths and he is living a free man now.
besides, the was tipped over. How useful could the captain really have been in that ship?
I think we should all be grateful that the Captain is safe & will one day be able to operate another Vessel…
that's pretty funny considering your username
The captain no longer has to survey the land? So he's not to blame for crashing into the reef or rocks or land or whatever he crashed into?
blaming the captain is class warfare.
He's supposed to coordinate the evacuation. Because there was no leadership, the evacuation was a disaster and people who probably should not have died did die because of that. I doubt you give a about lives seeing how Che is your bff.
how do you coordinate an evacuation in complete darkness and in a tipped over boat? I would like to know.
Again, the captain was incompetent but I disagree he should be the only responsible one here.
the crew should be just as responsible as the engineer of the boat. How the you build a 1/2 billion dollar boat and it tips over at the most minimal collision?
minimal collision? He ran over a freaking rock because he was driving the boat where it wasn't supposed to be and put a gash in the hull almost as long as a football field...
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