Great article, and Mark Steyn makes a great analogy between the behavior of the people on the Concordia and the people in the coming collapse. It won’t be pretty.
As a whole, the evacuation was very orderly. Did you see the ABC 20/20 show tonight which featured a photo of the passengers assembled in a queue, standing on the side of the hull, waiting to rappel down the upturned bottom? It’s amazing that the losses were as low as they were.
I would like to know who it was in actuality that maneuvered the ship onto the shoal where it now rests. In the news they attribute this action reflexively to “the captain”, but other reporting suggests that he was not in control. Anyway, if this ship had sunk in deep water it would have been a lot faster than the Titanic went down, and the casualties would have been upward of a thousand.