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    Moldovan with ship captain defends his actions

    By COLLEEN BARRY and NICOLE WINFIELD | Associated Press – Thu, Jan 19, 2012
     
    • Mikey
      Mikey  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      Captain stays 'till everyone is safe and accounted for...period!
      • Geta
        Geta 4 mths ago
        when stay and till over 3000 was save ,over one hour; he is human to save his live to;Gog give a second chance for same, for few not.
      • ralf
        ralf 4 mths ago
        Please buy yourself an english dictionary and go some where else and practice
      • Funky
        Funky 4 mths ago
        I have some Navy friends who are FURIOUS. There's plenty of places in this world where that offense warrants execution.
    • RACHELS
      RACHELS  •  4 mths ago
      He might have been on the ship til 11:30, but there were passengers on the ship til 6AM. He abandoned them, and people died.
      • JOATO JOATP
        JOATO JOATP 4 mths ago
        What ever happened to Captain is last onboard or goes down with his ship?
      • Jose the AMERICAN
        Jose the AMERICAN 4 mths ago
        There are still passengers on board who may be trapped below decks.

        JOA, It is still the rule that the Capt. is the last to leave the ship after he has made sure all on board are safely off.
      • JustSayin
        JustSayin 4 mths ago
        The land was right there! Some 200 people just swam to shore. Coward!
    • Mike_88
      Mike_88  •  4 mths ago
      He made an unauthorized deviation which killed 11 people. When he said those rocks shouldn't have been there, he shouldn't have been there. Those rocks have been there forever.
      • OSO420
        OSO420 4 mths ago
        Actually the earth is constantly changing but at least 10,000 years would be a good guess.
      • Jack
        Jack 4 mths ago
        True, but his subsequent action of truning and grounding the ship at the port also saved lives.
      • SANFORD
        SANFORD 4 mths ago
        @Jack.. He would not have had to "trun" the ship if he had stayed on course. You can not pour gas all over your neighbors house, light it on fire, wake up your neighbor and get them out of the burning house and then claim that you are a hero.
    • NICKH
      NICKH  •  Bruceville, Indiana  •  4 mths ago
      Regardless of what she says, the recording of the Coast Guard telling him to get back on his ship, pretty much tells all we need to know.
      • Sky Clipper
        Sky Clipper 4 mths ago
        I think you need to know more - it was fine for the Capt. to coordiante from 'off-board'.
      • yourallcrzy
        yourallcrzy 4 mths ago
        Fire... I was under the impression that is the Captains job to be the last one off, passengers come first. I also remember him being told where to go to get back on the ship.
      • yourallcrzy
        yourallcrzy 4 mths ago
        Of course that woman defended the guy she was screwing...
    • Sean
      Sean  •  4 mths ago
      Honestly, I'm beginning to think Gilligan and the Skipper would have handled this better.
      • Erin
        Erin 4 mths ago
        The professor would have made sure they didn't hit the rocks.
      • this crazy life of ours
        this crazy life of ours 4 mths ago
        Better yet, I think Marianne and Ginger would have done a finer job, IN HEELS, as for this ridiculous "captain," the title fits him too loose!
      • Go 49ers
        Go 49ers 4 mths ago
        The Professor and Marianne would've handles it better!!
    • EvilBuddyP
      EvilBuddyP  •  4 mths ago
      Edward John Smith, captain of the Titanic, stayed on board until everyone that could get off did, and made no attempt to save himself when the ship went down. He was a man.This little girlie man, while trying to impress his little girfriend, willfully steered his ship into dangerous water and sunk her. Then he tried to cover it up by lying about the ship's situation, he didn't try to evacuate his charges, he jumped/tripped/slipped/climbed into a life boat, he refused the coast guards order to return to the deck and help affect rescues, and then he hid like a little scared child while people that he was supposed to protect died. #$%$
    • Dooglas
      Dooglas  •  4 mths ago
      To be honest, i think her defending him just made things ten times worse
    • Praghumist 101
      Praghumist 101  •  New York, New York  •  4 mths ago
      I would love to know WHEN and HOW Dominica Cermotan, the 25-year-old Moldovan hostess, escaped the stricken ship. Did she accidently stumble into the same Life Boat with the scrambling COWARD?
    • Sam
      Sam  •  Parkersburg, West Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      What was the time stamp of the coast guard captain screaming at schittano to get back on board?
    • KBo
      KBo  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  4 mths ago
      Causing the accident then saving 3,000 lives isn't a great thing. He could have saved 4,200 lives by not being a d bag
    • Jack Daniels
      Jack Daniels  •  4 mths ago
      He isn't going to be making that cash anymore lady.
    • TM
      TM  •  4 mths ago
      He stayed on deck until 11:50 pm, what a champ. I thought a captain stayed on the ship until every last passenger was off. Everyone knows the captain of the Titanic went down with the ship. I guess they don't make captains like they used to.
    • babylonandon
      babylonandon  •  West Allis, Wisconsin  •  4 mths ago
      So now we know who ... er I mean what "Chicken of the Sea" was running into prior to his ship running aground.
    • Won
      Won  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  4 mths ago
      She defended Schettino, saying "he did a great thing, he saved over 3,000 lives," and added he stayed on deck until 11:50 p.m. The issue is that the Captain should have stayed on much longer to ensure all were evacuated, safe and accounted for before leaving the ship. 3,000 lives? There were more than 4,200 lives on board.
    • Scott
      Scott  •  Des Moines, Iowa  •  4 mths ago
      You guys need to give the good captain a break. Don't you understand that he slipped and fell into a lifeboat containing both the first and second mate?
    • Risteard
      Risteard  •  Orlando, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      No one can condone his refusal to get back on the ship.
    • Michael
      Michael  •  Valencia, California  •  4 mths ago
      "Women who ate with Captain defends his actions"? Sure... no bias there. Kind of like his wife coming to defend him. Wonder if both his "women friend" on the boat and the wife have met?
    • Logger
      Logger  •  Mt Hamilton, California  •  4 mths ago
      Did she see the captain "fall" into the life boat? She's such a bird brain she thinks this captain "saved" 3,000 people when in fact he almost killed 3,000 people.
    • Z
      Z  •  Austin, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Excellent, some female hostess is supposed to exonerate the captain of any wrongdoing as if she has any idea what he was supposed to be doing in an emergency. He didnt save the lives of 3000 people, rather, he killed dozens and endangered the lives of thousands more. Stupid woman needs to keep her hole shut.
    • No Name
      No Name  •  Lavaca, Arkansas  •  4 mths ago
      No matter how many lives he saved, he's responsible for what happened and the lives that were lost. He is no hero and should have been the last person off the ship. The officer who ordered the coward back to his ship is the real hero!
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