[TalBlack]

“..it’s hard to imagine such a massive company blaming the disaster on a single person — even if he did abandon ship early and steer a little too close to shore.”

The captain and the captain alone is in command of that ship. At sea or underway If the owners say one thing and he another there is no contest. He has final responsibility so he ought to be damn careful what “suggestions” he accedes to.

[bert]

-——The captain and the captain alone is in command of that ship——

I thought it was reported that at the time of the collision the captain was having a meal. Was he actually on the bridge and in direct maneuvering command when the ship struck the reef?

[PapaBear3625]

The captain and the captain alone is in command of that ship. At sea or underway If the owners say one thing and he another there is no contest. He has final responsibility so he ought to be damn careful what “suggestions” he accedes to.

And the owners, and the owners alone, APPOINTED that man to be Captain and thereby their agent. They are thus totally responsible for any of his failures. They chose poorly.