You NAILED it. How many ship sinkings in this study include ships with, oh say, African registry and crews in the 21st century, vs. what we saw with the Titanic?
Two modern cases where the Captin was among the FIRST to abandon ship:
MTS Oceanos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS_Oceanos
Costa Concordia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia