“Dont worry, go back to your cabins, it is just an electrical fault” this was what the pasangers from costa concordia heard from the speakings previous minutes after the electrical current went off. However, only thirty minutes after this announcment, captain’s voice was heard again, telling the cabin crew and passanger’s to abandon the ship. From that moment, chaos, gripped the situation.
But by then it was too late as the ship had begun to list too far over for the lifeboats to be launched safely and passengers had to make their way down the superstructure of the hull using rope ladders.
Captain Shettino, after abandoning the cruise, was told from Giglio’s port to return to his boat, nothing else but saving his life seemed to worry him.
In my opinion, this shows the fault of inmorality that many people can show, what do you think?
LUIS CALSAPEU
Friday 20 January 2012
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I can’t believe how the captain of the ship can do this. He’s supposed to take care of all the passengers and stay until the last minute to make sure that he’s done all he could. But instead, he decides to get into a lifeboat “accidentally” and save his life. How cruel you have to be to do this! Now he’s bad seen everywhere because he’s lied to everyone and caused dozens of deaths. Everything may have been different if the captain had stayed in the cruise, because even if he hadn’t saved everybody, he would have tried it and people would consider him to be hero…
ReplyDeleteFortunately, justice has taken place before such a disaster and the captain has been taken to jails. Hopefully, cruises from now on will be taking much more care in this kind of situations…
Agus Nieto
Controlling a situation may seem easy, but is very difficult, and even more when there are unforeseen actions. That is why, when accidents occur, it's barely seen the situation where the controler explains every little detail, or even dares to say something to the other individuals. Accepting that you have made a mistake is very hard, but it is even tougher to tell it to a lot of people. So it's normal that in this type of situations they react this way, just to avoid the chaos, which would make it worse.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if you are one of the people in the crowd, waiting for an explanation, then, it's no laughing matter. You are, desperate, confused, frustrated and just wanting to know what on earth is happening. And it's annoying not receiving any answers or even any claryfications.
In conclusion, I understand why they take care of these situations with this method. But I don't agree with it, as it provokes desperate and aggressive people in order to avoid chaos. So in the end, they end up having great problems.
You never know how someone is going to react in an extreme situation, on one hand you have the case, for example, of a very calm and well-ballanced person who breaks down when he/she is diagnosed with cancer and, on the other hand, you have a very nervous and fragile person which stays strong and calm in the same situation. Who doesn’t know of someone who has suprised us acting in an unexpected way in front of a difficult circumstance? It is hard to know how someone will react in an extreme situation.
ReplyDeleteSaid this, I don’t justify what captain Schettino did, he was irresponsable, unprofessional and commited a crime. People who have jobs with such responsabilities have been selected and trained to be prepared for these cases, or so it is supposed to be. The problem is that, since accidents in cruises, planes, trains... are very rare (there are a lot of persons and machines controling everything), people, such as captain Schettino, tend to forget the great responsability they have. I happen to know a pilot who told me to beware of flying in sunny and clear days because pilots are more confident and pay less attention to what they are doing, however, if the day is cloudy or foggy, they are much more alert.
In the case of Costa Concordia, not only was the captain careless, resulting in an accident, but when the catastrophe had already happened he abandoned the ship and failed to do his job, and with this, lots of lifes were lost. If he had been a surgeon probably he would have also been an irresponsable doctor. In my opinion responsability isn’t related to a job but to a person.