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Stricken cruise liner captain DID abandon ship before passengers AND refused to go back when ordered
Daily Mail UK ^
| 1-17-12
| By Lee Moran and Nick Pisa
Posted on 01/17/2012 6:57:02 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Captain Coward indeed. No Captain Smith is this one...
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posted on
01/17/2012 7:27:04 AM PST
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: dfwgator
Sounds like a couple of men deserve a promotion.
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posted on
01/17/2012 7:28:07 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: myrabach
Altruism?
That was not the point.
The point was there was an incompetent captain, and we were speculating that he may have gotten his position through ‘pull’ rather than ‘skill’................
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posted on
01/17/2012 7:28:17 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: Huskrrrr
To: Red Badger
'Offered to return to doomed cruise liner, but only to collect black box' Sounds more like a bus driver than a sea captain. Keel-haul him! Should be easy - the keel is pretty close to the surface.
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posted on
01/17/2012 7:52:54 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Red Badger
Altruism? That was not the point.+
Being captain doesn't mean you have to go down with your ship. But it does mean that you stay aboard until the passengers are away. It does mean that you remain calm and take command. And it means that you put people who know their job on watch when you are at dinner. This captain did none of those things.
If you look at their actual course vs the course they took it isn't even close. They were on the wrong side of the island, a look out the dining room window would have told the captain that something was badly wrong. Then when the ship stuck they waited an hour before sending the passengers to the muster stations. Had they sent them immediately when the engine room started to flood they could have lowered the boats while the ship was still relatively level. In doing so they would have avoided the panic caused when many of the boats could not be launched.
It is only fortunate that so few lives were lost. And that was not planning, just dumb luck and hard work on the part of the locals, who are outnumbered by the ships passengers and crew almost ten to one.
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posted on
01/17/2012 7:56:43 AM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: SamAdams76
Now that you mention it.........
To: myrabach
The Virtue of Selfishness explained that rather clearly.That'd be rational selfishness. Rand haters always leave that part out. In all her non-fiction works rational selfishness is the proper way to describe the philosophy. The point being if you don't help yourself first, how can you help anyone else. This cowardly captain showed irrational selfishness.
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:03:20 AM PST
by
numberonepal
(First they came for Sarah, then they came for Herman.....)
To: dfwgator
“Good thing he doesnt work for a Chinese Cruise Line, he would have been shot already.”
Judging from the stock action, Carnival could be a Chinese cruise line before long.
To: Red Badger
Question: How did this guy ever attain the position of captain of a cruise ship?
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:22:12 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Charles Martel
Is gibbeting still allowed?.........
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:23:37 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:24:05 AM PST
by
gusty
To: Georgia Girl 2
That was what we were speculating upon. He may be the brother-in-law of some high mucky muck........
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:25:32 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: Charles Martel
Bus driver?
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:26:45 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: Red Badger
***Stricken cruise liner captain DID abandon ship before passengers AND refused to go back when ordered***
something similar happened quite few years ago. A cruise ship started to sink and the Captain and crew immediately abandoned ship leaving the passengers to fend for themselves.
The captain’s claim was he wanted to establish a command center OFF THE SHIP so he could then begin rescuing the passengers.
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:35:03 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( P!$$ on the Taliban. Issue MORE BEER!)
To: Red Badger
That may well be true. The pic I saw of him he looked like a terrorist.
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:36:10 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: All
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:37:30 AM PST
by
az_gila
To: Red Badger
Q: How many people does it take to captain the Costa Concordia?
A: One and a fifth.
- recycled Joseph Hazelwood “Exxon Valdez” joke.
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
To: Red Badger
Has anyone else noticed that the ads for Cruise.com on the Travel Channel feature an aerial shot of the Costa Concordia?
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posted on
01/17/2012 8:43:49 AM PST
by
MeganC
(No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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