Whatever happened to that captain who bailed early, took a lifeboat ashore and hailed a cab?
Capt. Francesco Schettino is currently on trial for alleged manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship before all the passengers had been evacuated. He says he is innocent and that he saved lives with the ship's final maneuvers.
Should read "abandoning the ship before almost all of the passengers!" He was absent every time the "Birkenhead Drill" was mentioned! A coward dies a thousand deaths ...
It estimated value of the contract is more than Euro 300million.
Captain Schettino, is currently standing trial in the Tuscan town of Grosseto charged with multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship.