What I think you might be missing is that if he hadn’t fled his ship, but had instead stayed aboard and directed a proper abandoning of the ship, some of the people who died might well have lived.
There is no good reason for people not being able to abandon that ship in good order. Nobody should have died. You should be able to completely abandon a cruise ship in 30 minutes. It took over six hours with the Costa Concordia. And that was primarily because the right orders were not being given.
Probably right. I remember vaguely that the passengers were not readied to abandon ship until it was too late or something.
A ship that heels over as badly as the CC did is difficult to abandon. Lifeboats aren’t made to deploy down the davits when the ship is past a certain list.
Not that that excuses the cowardly behavior or antics of this idiot captain.
Imagine some train operator show-boating and not paying attention and plowing into a bus crossing the tracks. . .killing over 30 people. . .not just a foolish act, a foolishly criminal act with criminal penalties.
Foolishness does not excuse criminal behavior.