Coastguard begged Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino to return to ship after crash, recording shows
Jan 17, 2012 – 8:15 AM ET | Last Updated: Jan 17, 2012 11:55 AM ET
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Rescuers place explosive charges on the emerged side of the cruise liner Costa Concordia prior to entering on January 17, 2012. The Costa Concordia grounded in front of the harbour of Isola del Giglio after hitting underwater rocks on January 13. Rescuers searched for 29 people still unaccounted for from the wreck of a luxury liner off the coast as the arrested captain faced a hearing with investigators.
Update: Rescue workers found five bodies on Tuesday in the submerged part of the Italian cruise liner that capsized off Italy’s west coast, bringing the death toll to 11.
Corriere della Sera put the tape, which it said was recorded by the coast guard, on its website.
It conforms with reports that have leaked out in the past few days since the Costa Concordia hit a rock on Friday night. Six people were killed and 29 are still missing.
Captain Francesco Schettino is in jail, accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, and was due to appear before magistrates for questioning on Tuesday morning.
The recording says in part:
Coastguard to captain (who has already left the ship):
“There are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board.
“Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear?!
“Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!”
Captain to Coastguard: “Please ….”
Coastguard to captain: “There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!”
RESCUE EFFORTS
Rescue squads used controlled explosions on Tuesday to enter the stricken Italian cruise liner in the increasingly despairing hunt for survivors as authorities almost doubled their estimate of the number missing on the huge vessel to 29 people.
The Costa Concordia’s owners accused their captain of causing Friday’s disaster by veering the ship too close to shore, where it hit a rock, in a bravura “salute” to residents of a Tuscan island off Italy’s Mediterranean coast.
The three explosions were carried out early on Tuesday morning to allow firefighters and scuba divers to enter and leave parts of the ship that they had not yet been able to search.
“Now we will have better access to the gathering points on the ship, where it seems there might be more chance of finding someone, dead or alive,” said firefighters’ spokesman Luca Cari.”
“They will take micro-cameras in there, and we will be simultaneously looking at the few remaining dry areas and also the wet areas,” he said.
The weather improved slightly from Monday but seas were still choppy.
The giant cruise liner slid a little on Monday, threatening to plunge 2,300 tonnes of fuel below the Mediterranean waters of the surrounding nature reserve.
The slippage forced rescuers to suspend efforts to find anyone still alive after three days in the capsized hull, resting on a jagged slope outside the picturesque harbor on the island of Giglio. Six bodies have been found. Most of the 4,200 passengers and crew survived, despite hours of chaos.
An Italian coastguard official told Reuters late on Monday that the number of people missing had been revised up to 29 — 25 passengers and four members of staff — from 16, showing how much uncertainty still surrounded the disaster.
Another maritime official said later that 10 Germans were thought to be among the missing passengers.
The 114,500-tonne ship, one of the biggest passenger vessels ever to be wrecked, foundered after striking a rock just as dinner was being served on Friday night. It quickly rolled on its side, revealing a long gouge below the waterline.
Cari said there were still small movements of the vessel but they were not considered dangerous. Searches were suspended overnight before resuming on Tuesday morning.
Another senior firefighter, Luciano Roncalli, told Reuters that all the unsubmerged areas of the liner had been searched, indicating there was faint hope of finding more survivors in the flooded and upturned maze of luxurious state rooms and tennis courts, bars and spas now submerged beneath the sea.
Environment Minister Corrado Clini said he would declare a state of emergency because of the risk that the ship’s fuel would leak into the pristine Tuscan Archipelago National Park. No fuel spillage has been detected so far, he said on Italian television on Monday evening.
Clini said on Tuesday morning he had given the salvage company until Wednesday to come up with a plan to remove the fuel and 10 days with a plan to remove the ship.
Should rougher seas dislodge the wreck and cause it to sink or break up, that could scupper any hopes for the owners, a unit of Florida’s Carnival Corp., of salvaging a liner which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build just six years ago.
“SALUTE” TO SHORE
Investigators say the ship was much too close to the shore and its owners, Costa Cruises, said the captain had carried out the rash manoeuvre to “make a bow” to people on Giglio island, who included a retired Italian admiral.
Schettino denies charges of manslaughter.
“You don’t have to be a Nobel prize winner to understand that a ship of that size should stay far from the coast,” Clini, the environment minister, said on television on Tuesday morning.
His lawyer issued a statement saying the skipper was “broken up, troubled and saddened by the loss of life.” But he believed he had saved many lives by carrying out a difficult emergency maneuver with anchors after the accident, which turned the ship closer to the shore.
The father of the ship’s head waiter told Reuters that his son had telephoned him before the accident to say the crew would salute him by blowing the ship’s whistle as they passed close by Giglio, where both the waiter, Antonello Tievoli, and his 82-year-old father Giuseppe live.
Costa Cruises chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi on Monday blamed errors by Schettino for the disaster. He told a news conference the company would provide its captain with any assistance he required. “But we need to acknowledge the facts and we cannot deny human error,” he added.
Foschi said company vessels were forbidden to come closer than 500 metres to the Giglio coast. Investigators say the liner, designed as a floating pleasure palace for over 3,000 customers, was about 150 metres offshore when it hit the rocks that tore a long gouge in its thousand-foot hull.
Schettino denies being too close to the coast and says the rock he hit was not marked on charts.
The calm weather which since Friday has aided the search of the wreck, by some estimates the biggest passenger vessel ever to founder, took a turn for the worse on Monday with rougher seas and a light drizzle falling. Forecasters said it would get worse.
The ship is resting in about 20 metres of water but could go down by as much as 130 metres if it shifts free from the rocks.
Carnival Corp, the ship’s Miami-based parent company, said it estimated the impact on its 2012 earnings for loss of use alone to be around US$90-million. Its share price closed down around 16 percent on the London market.
With files from Antonio Denti and Gavin Jones
© Thomson Reuters 2012
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The Italian coastguard pleaded in vain for the captain of the capsized Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia to return on board to oversee the evacuation but he refused, according to what a leading Italian newspaper said was a recording of the conversation.Corriere della Sera put the tape, which it said was recorded by the coast guard, on its website.
It conforms with reports that have leaked out in the past few days since the Costa Concordia hit a rock on Friday night. Six people were killed and 29 are still missing.
Captain Francesco Schettino is in jail, accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, and was due to appear before magistrates for questioning on Tuesday morning.
The recording says in part:
Coastguard to captain (who has already left the ship):
“There are people who are coming down the ladder on the bow. Go back in the opposite direction, get back on the ship, and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board.
“Tell me if there are children, women and what type of help they need. And you tell me the number of each of these categories. Is that clear?!
“Listen Schettino, perhaps you have saved yourself from the sea but I will make you look very bad. I will make you pay for this. Dammit, go back on board!”
Captain to Coastguard: “Please ….”
Coastguard to captain: “There is no please about it. Go back on board. Assure me you are going back on board!”
Laura Lezza/Getty Images
The cruise ship Costa Concordia lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio, on January 17, 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy.
Rescue squads used controlled explosions on Tuesday to enter the stricken Italian cruise liner in the increasingly despairing hunt for survivors as authorities almost doubled their estimate of the number missing on the huge vessel to 29 people.
The Costa Concordia’s owners accused their captain of causing Friday’s disaster by veering the ship too close to shore, where it hit a rock, in a bravura “salute” to residents of a Tuscan island off Italy’s Mediterranean coast.
The three explosions were carried out early on Tuesday morning to allow firefighters and scuba divers to enter and leave parts of the ship that they had not yet been able to search.
“Now we will have better access to the gathering points on the ship, where it seems there might be more chance of finding someone, dead or alive,” said firefighters’ spokesman Luca Cari.”
“They will take micro-cameras in there, and we will be simultaneously looking at the few remaining dry areas and also the wet areas,” he said.
The weather improved slightly from Monday but seas were still choppy.
The giant cruise liner slid a little on Monday, threatening to plunge 2,300 tonnes of fuel below the Mediterranean waters of the surrounding nature reserve.
The slippage forced rescuers to suspend efforts to find anyone still alive after three days in the capsized hull, resting on a jagged slope outside the picturesque harbor on the island of Giglio. Six bodies have been found. Most of the 4,200 passengers and crew survived, despite hours of chaos.
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A part of the Costa Concordia cruise ship is seen underwater after it ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island in this photo released on January 16, 2012.
Another maritime official said later that 10 Germans were thought to be among the missing passengers.
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The Costa Concordia's final hours.
Cari said there were still small movements of the vessel but they were not considered dangerous. Searches were suspended overnight before resuming on Tuesday morning.
Another senior firefighter, Luciano Roncalli, told Reuters that all the unsubmerged areas of the liner had been searched, indicating there was faint hope of finding more survivors in the flooded and upturned maze of luxurious state rooms and tennis courts, bars and spas now submerged beneath the sea.
Environment Minister Corrado Clini said he would declare a state of emergency because of the risk that the ship’s fuel would leak into the pristine Tuscan Archipelago National Park. No fuel spillage has been detected so far, he said on Italian television on Monday evening.
Clini said on Tuesday morning he had given the salvage company until Wednesday to come up with a plan to remove the fuel and 10 days with a plan to remove the ship.
Should rougher seas dislodge the wreck and cause it to sink or break up, that could scupper any hopes for the owners, a unit of Florida’s Carnival Corp., of salvaging a liner which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build just six years ago.
“SALUTE” TO SHORE
Investigators say the ship was much too close to the shore and its owners, Costa Cruises, said the captain had carried out the rash manoeuvre to “make a bow” to people on Giglio island, who included a retired Italian admiral.
Schettino denies charges of manslaughter.
“You don’t have to be a Nobel prize winner to understand that a ship of that size should stay far from the coast,” Clini, the environment minister, said on television on Tuesday morning.
His lawyer issued a statement saying the skipper was “broken up, troubled and saddened by the loss of life.” But he believed he had saved many lives by carrying out a difficult emergency maneuver with anchors after the accident, which turned the ship closer to the shore.
The father of the ship’s head waiter told Reuters that his son had telephoned him before the accident to say the crew would salute him by blowing the ship’s whistle as they passed close by Giglio, where both the waiter, Antonello Tievoli, and his 82-year-old father Giuseppe live.
Laura Lezza/Getty Images
A hole in the ship created by micro explosions allows divers in to search the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia off the shore of the island of Giglio, on January 17, 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy.
Foschi said company vessels were forbidden to come closer than 500 metres to the Giglio coast. Investigators say the liner, designed as a floating pleasure palace for over 3,000 customers, was about 150 metres offshore when it hit the rocks that tore a long gouge in its thousand-foot hull.
Schettino denies being too close to the coast and says the rock he hit was not marked on charts.
The calm weather which since Friday has aided the search of the wreck, by some estimates the biggest passenger vessel ever to founder, took a turn for the worse on Monday with rougher seas and a light drizzle falling. Forecasters said it would get worse.
The ship is resting in about 20 metres of water but could go down by as much as 130 metres if it shifts free from the rocks.
Carnival Corp, the ship’s Miami-based parent company, said it estimated the impact on its 2012 earnings for loss of use alone to be around US$90-million. Its share price closed down around 16 percent on the London market.
With files from Antonio Denti and Gavin Jones
© Thomson Reuters 2012
This is an article about the Italian cruise ship that sunk near the island of Giglio off the west coast of Italy. The argument in question is whether or not the captain of the ship should be punished for abandoning the ship before all of the crew and passengers were evacuated. What do you think they should do with him?
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1. This article provided a lot of visuals as to what was happening in the article. The pictures of the boat fragmented into two were almost as reenactments of things that I have heard about the Titanic. It was devastating to see that a captain could be so careless about his passengers, and it is bizarre to think that the captain did not have enough common sense to know that he should not get that close to shore for a boasting solute. Humanity should be focused more on the common good for the majority of people instead of the pride and joy a person would get out of showing off. In all, I believe that it was not morally right for the captain to get so close to shore, then leave the ship, and to top that off, the captain did not even do everything he could do to try to help the trouble that he had made. The captain should be punished for his mistakes because he could have potentially avoided this tragedy, and he could have fought to help save the people.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the visuals, I think the visuals were used to persuade the readers to think irrationally. The articles focused a lot on how the captain was incompetent and was so careless. Was this just a way to hide the carelessness of the company's enforcement of the safety procedures? The one thing that stuck out to me the most was that Wirtz used the word tragedy to sum of the emotions he was faced with pertaining to this situation. I don't know exactly why this word stuck out to me so much maybe because it was the one word he used, to describe something so catastrophic or maybe it was just because of how short his statements were? Also mentioned in the related articles I noticed a great amount of safety in the past and was influence this will have on future ships. I think the ship companies are trying to redirect the people's focus from a state of fear with riding to a more positive motto of, we will use this incidennt as a way tom improve ourselves. The companies of course don't want to have a lingering negative effect on their profits, so they are going to say whatever they need to say to convince the people they are in good hands once again, so to say. Last of all what better way to catch the peoples' attention, we're all are drawn to emotion and the media did a great job in capturing this event. I agree it was a horrific event that occurred but, we shouldn't bring so much emotion into a situation nor can we make accusations with limited information. Like the guard-line said he wanted to make the captain look like a complete fool. Who's lying? Could the situation have been any better if safety measures were used appropriately, making less chaos.
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DeleteAbsolutely he should be punished. This is negligent manslaughter. From what I have heard from news sources, the captain was attempting to make a salute to some rocks when the ship ran into the rocks. Ok, he made a mistake, true, but the actions he took after are completely and morally wrong. We all know the famous phrase "the captain goes down with the ship" while this might be an outdated ideal, he should at least be the last off the ship, ensuring the safety of the passengers who entrusted their lives to them. He is a coward, embarrassed at his mistake, understandably but you have to own up to what you did. It's like the kid who punches another kid, says that he is sorry, and expects no punishment. Not only should he be fired, stripped of his captainship, fined, he should be put on trial in civil and as a criminal. His negligence as well as his cowardice, caused the deaths of people, and he should be jailed. Also, I expect that everyone of the families of the victims will sue the cruise company based on the actions taken by the captain and the crew. The crew is also to blame for the tragedy. Is there no chain of command on a ship when the captain is rendered incapable of his duties? I think the first mate should also be put on trial and held responsible for a portion of the crimes.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we are in a position to judge the captain from the limited information in the article. It seems like the main story has become the captains mistake rather than the event itself. Don't get me wrong, what he did was cowardly but it shouldn't be the main point. I think more emphasis should be put on how this happened and how it can be prevented in the future but, as it always does, the media found the most intriguing angle to get people interested. They have gotten people to rally against the captain instead of trying to prevent another incident like this.
ReplyDelete1. This article reports and illustrates what happened after the Italian cruise ship sunk with a set of photos. These visual elements are all relating to the stricken cruise ship. The 1st photo suggests the central point that the rescuers are trying to save more people’s life; however, the captain did not help and even left. Setting this photo to the 1st one seems to imply the central theme of the whole article that Italian coastguard is hero and Captain Francesco Schettino is coward. What’s more, even though many rescuers efforts to search people, the 2nd photo (just a ship deadly capsized) implies the tragedy to be continued: “six people were killed and 29 are still missing”. Further, the 3rd photo even show the ship silently immersed underwater, which implies some messages like hopeless and a sense of powerlessness. The 4th one is just show the passenger vessel rolled on its side. But the last photo focuses on a hole, which seems to represent a kind of hope. However, in the end, the author still back to argue captain’s human error.
ReplyDeleteJust according to read this article, I think all the evidences are focusing on captain himself but no more on the company. Did the company do some actions? Or just blame to captain? Also, it is true that captain made some error, which is a legal aspect; however, on the moral aspect, it seems like his not coming back to save people make whole thing worse and makes him to be censured by public.
Schettio should pay for his horrendous crimes. Not only was he willing to jeopardize his life and the lives of other by sailing too close to the shore of Giglio, but once he crashed the ship he was unwilling to stay on board in order to help those that hadn't made it to safety. I understand the desire for self preservation, but the facts are he broke the law when he didn't stay on the ship and because of this innocent people died. In essence, he should be charged with manslaughter because he did indeed slaughter people.
ReplyDelete7 - It seems that this article creates negative emotions for some of the classmates that previously responded. The post plays with their values for the respect and worth of human life and also their value of being responsible for one's own actions. This is proven by the specific usage of adjectives and verbs in some of the responses. For example, John uses the terms "horrendous crimes", "innocent people", and "he should be charged with manslaughter". Another example is found in Alex's post: "Absolutely he should be punished", "negligent", etc. However, other classmates have responded that based on the limited information and possible biases in this article, that readers should not be so swift to judge the captain. Could the presentation and diction by the media be causing this apparent public outrage?
ReplyDeleteThe captain of this ship should be punished for the tragedy of this ship because of the deaths and injuries that occurred through this event. His job is to sail the ship safely and the captain should have been more responsible by knowing that he is not supposed to dock so closely to the shore. I agree with the responses above regarding the medias' role in portraying the story. The pictures shown portray a visual to the tragedy which allows the audience to feel for the passengers that were aboard. I think that there are enough examples to determine that the captain should be punished like the responses have touched upon: "crimes", "innocent people","manslaughter". The article includes that it was "common sense" for someone to know that a ship vessel as large as this one should not be that close to shore and this looks bad on the captain of the ship. The media chooses to show the imagines which provide a negative image to the situation which allows viewers like ourselves to view the captain poorly. Is the media trying to bring out the best or the worst in this event? In my opinion, I think the media highlights the negative aspects rather than speaking about what should have been done differently and how these situations can be avoided in the future.
ReplyDelete1.The pictures that are used in this article really take the whole article to a whole new level. The writer of the article used photos that really give you a sense of just how big the ship was and how devastating the effects of the captains actions had on the ship. The map that shows the intended path of which the ship was supposed to run is also a great illustration to show just how far the captain deviated from his path to make this "salute" that in turn took the lives of many innocent people. I understand that accidents happen and that sometimes you can misjudge things but this is not one of those instances. As many of my classmates have stated this Captain of this boat should pay for his actions. He was the one who drove the boat into the ground and instead of doing his job and getting everyone off safely he left the boat as a coward leaving everyone to fend for themselves. He is trained for these types of situations and he should know the rules that come along with his job. As many of my classmates have said i agree that he should be charged with "manslaughter". I alos feel like the crew of the ship that did save as many people as they could without a leader should be honored for their heroic efforts in trying to save as many people as possible. But in the end i feel that tthe Captain of this ship should pay for his foolish actions.
ReplyDelete1. In this news, there are totally five photoes attached. The first one we can see the rescue team is still attempting to save people which imply that most of the passangers are already rescued. The second picture shows that almost half of the cruise is under sea and the cruise slant angle is hard to let the people to stand on it. The third picture shows the stack of tables which is likely to fall, and it is really dangerous in an accident if these table falls upon ones head, which should be noticed by the cruise company about the safety precautions.The forth one is the cruise route and the inner layers of cruise. The final one is the micro explosion in the room.
ReplyDeleteAt the begining of the accident, the captain is the reason of all mistakes, but as time pass by, some inner information has been find that the Costa managers insist to get close to the coast and publicize their company. The cruise break two weeks ago and the inappropriate reaction to the accident are both reasons too.
This news have arised some worries, is this just Costa have this problem, there are so many cruise companies in United States, do they have the same problems? In this way, is there any people who are afraid to try the cruise? I think these cruise companies should all work on it and make some improvements since there are so many people on cuise which can be a catastrophe.
1. It was devastating to read about the tragedy of the Costa Concordia, it somewhat reminded me of the Titanic sinking. However the captain of the Titanic took responsibility for what had occurred and had intended to be the last person aboard the sinking ship in an attempt to ensure that all paasangers could evacuate. The captain of the Costa Concordia on the other hand was one of the first to evacuate, and the Costa Concordia's doomed fate was largely his fault.
ReplyDeleteThe visuals allow us to get a good view of the damage to the ship and what it looked like while submerged. In several of the photos, we see broken pieces of the ship, damage to the ship caused by explosions and the ship on its side, partially submerged. One of the photos shows a diagram of the Costa Concordia and its normal route and the route it took for the crash.
The sinking of the Costa Concordia is truly a disaster, but fault is largely in the hands of its captain.
1. I agree, the visuals in this article take it to a whole new level. The reader is actually able to see the damage that the captain had done to the ship instead of just describing it in words. I think these visuals make it easier for us as readers to automatically hate the captain and make him at fault a lot quicker then we might have if there was just a description in words of the damage he had caused. I also relate with my other classmates who think the captain should pay for his selfish actions. As captain of the ship he should have safely gotten everyone else off of the ship before he himself got off. It was solely his fault that the ship wrecked, yet he made the passengers pay for his mistakes, instead of making it right and saving them like a true captain would have and should have done.
ReplyDeleteOverall, I believe Captain Francesco Schettino should be punished for abandoning the ship and the people still aboard. Not only is it common knowledge that the "captain stays with the ship", but it is unlawful for the captain to abandon the ship immediately. This man left both crew members and passengers in danger, even after being sternly warned by the coastguard to get back on the ship. In addition, Captain Francesco should have known better than to allow a ship of this size so near the coast; an accident was inevitable. I believe that he should be charged with manslaughter because it was reckless in the first place for him to allow the ship to be steered so close to land, and he left innocent people aboard a sinking ship in order to ensure his own safety. The images and visuals presented in the blog allow readers to get a good grasp on the different elements of the ship and the incident, but in order to make judgements readers need to stick to the facts.
ReplyDelete1. Although this incident has been all over the media with many other visuals, pictures, and videos, I think this article explains the accident very well with pictures that correspond successfully. The picture in this article that I found the most intriguing was the one that shows the hole in the cruise ship. I think this picture explains many different elements that make up this story and why this accident is all over the media. After I read the article and looked at some of the pictures, I think the argument whether the captain should have fled or stayed with his passengers is a good one like the group who had posted this had asked. Also, I think that captain Francesco Schettino should be charged for many counts of manslaughter because of this. He should take responsibility for making a big mistake of bringing his cruise ship close to the shore and causing it to sink. I think it was very selfish of him to bail on all of the passengers on the boat to only save himself.
ReplyDelete7. Overall I do not think this post actually does anything. The post does not provide insight or knowledge into some unknown thing, but rather point out an instance of someone doing something that many people that have commented believe to be wrong. Some comments included phrases like "coward" and "should be punished" and Alex even went as far to declare it "... negligent manslaughter". Although this post may allow those reading it to evaluate what they would have done in the situation I do not think it will change someones values. The post is very fact based and non-condemning, although many if not all facts listed were opposing the captains decisions. Thus this post does not present ideas of what to think but rather allows the reader to form those ideas for his/her own self (The article does not include words like you nor provide analysis of the captains decisions). And in being so non-confrontational does not force the reader to really evaluate his/her values unless forced to do so in an assignment like this.
ReplyDeleteAs Captain of a ship, it is their natural duty to oversee everything that occurs on the ship. People wouldn't go on cruises if they didn't trust their captain and unfortunately, Captain Francesco Schettino had no regard for that trust. The pictures clearly show that this was a severe accident; however, all we know is that they hit a rock. Based off of that, we cannot conclude that the crash was completely the captain's fault. His inexcusable mistake was to leave the ship before all passengers were off. I don't know why he thought that it was a good idea at the time, but there are really no excuses for abandoning the ship prior to a lot of other people. He should be charged with manslaughter because he willingly exited the ship knowing that others would be left behind. There is really no one else to blame in this situation.
ReplyDeleteI also think that the captain was very irresponsible and selfish when handling this tragedy. The captain should definitely be held responsible for his actions. Holding a role of leadership and power is not supposed to make a person feel as though they are above the law or like his or her life is more valuable than someone else's. As the captain of the ship, this man should have understood that he was looked up to and respected, and that the lives of his crew and passengers were to be of up most priority to him. I also think that the pictures were a good way to provide a visual image for readers while they are reading the article. Taking a break from the actual reading every once in a while to reflect on the information and look at the pictures helps to let the information sink in. Overall, I think this was set up very nicely.
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