Originally Posted by shirley and anthony hide (Post 9867014)

His responsibilty is for the safety of his passengers?
Its the coastguards job to co-ordinate the rescue?
Make your mind up mate. Which one is it?

Originally Posted by JLFS (Post 9867040)

You are confusing Italian with Spanish DD, it is either il captiano or el capitan, with the accent ofver the a

Originally Posted by JLFS (Post 9867040)

with the accent ofver the a

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 9867131)

What I can't quite figure out is how come other senior officers were already in the same lifeboat that the unfortunate captain happened to trip and fall into ?

Coincidence,....did they all just happen to accidently trip and fall into the same boat ?
Truly amazing !

In such a situation I would have thought they would all have been delegated with different responsibilities at different locations to supervise the evacuation of the ship.

Rats deserting a sinking ship comes to mind,

oh,....plus its passengers as well. :thumbdown:

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 9867131)

What I can't quite figure out is how come other senior officers were already in the same lifeboat that the unfortunate captain happened to trip and fall into ?

Coincidence,....did they all just happen to accidently trip and fall into the same boat ?
Truly amazing !

In such a situation I would have thought they would all have been delegated with different responsibilities at different locations to supervise the evacuation of the ship.

Rats deserting a sinking ship comes to mind,

oh,....plus its passengers as well. :thumbdown:

Originally Posted by Saxy (Post 9867049)

Co-ordinating the rescue, is organizing available agencies to come to the rescue. That is not the captains responsibility.
I would have thought you could have worked that one out.

Originally Posted by Saxy (Post 9866067)

I still say that the best place for the captain to be in this situation, is down at the lifeboats controlling the safe loading of passengers into the boats, rather than being high up on the ship shouting down and asking questions. That's not being in control!!
I think the coastguard was out of order asking him to go and waste time counting passengers, they knew how many people were on board, and I think it was their duty to know how many had reached shore!

I don't know the true facts and until the enquiry is finished neither does anyone else, but some of you of course, think you do!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Saxy (Post 9866877)

The captain would be able to do very little from the deck of the ship, apart from getting people to form orderly lines. His responsibility is for the safety his passengers. The point of disembarking is at the lifeboats. That's where the danger is, getting from a steep slippery hull into a lifeboat moored alongside and probably transferring to another boat to take them ashore. That's where he can control the numbers coming down and getting into the boats, in an orderly fashion.
For your information, it's the coastguards job to co-ordinate the rescue, not the captains. He has enough on his plate!!

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 9867044)

...and a mistress on board. It's a win/win situation. :D

Originally Posted by Domino (Post 9867251)

a captain's job is to be in control of the whole of the situation, so his under officers are allocated to particular lifeboat stations to give authority to help, support and calm the passengers. He should be able to contact those officers by ships telephone and assess the situation

If the coastguard told him to count passengers, that is out of order, he should never have done it, that is what the under officers referred to above are there for.
No single person can go round to count 4,000+ passengers and make an accurate count, especially as it is rumoured there were "unlisted" present.