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Costa throws Capt under the bus..
er I mean ship...
Costa Crociere SpA, which offered support to the captain in the hours after the emergency, has now turned its back on the man who is under investigation for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship. Schettino, who was jailed after he left the ship, is under house arrest near Naples. Costa in recent days has suspended Schettino, announced it is no longer paying his legal fees and has signed on as a civil party in the prosecution, a move that positions it as an injured party and would allow it to seek damages in the case of a guilty verdict. -- People thought cybersex was a safe alternative, until patients started presenting with sexually acquired carpal tunnel syndrome.-Howard Berkowitz |
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Costa throws Capt under the bus..
Can't blame them. I would most likely do the same thing in the same
position. So far as throwing him under the bus/ship, I think he was already under there just waiting for it to slide off into the deep. So far as sueing for damages I thought that to be really funny. They could bankrupt the captain and collect maybe .00001% of the cost of recovery. |
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Costa throws Capt under the bus..
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:54:55 -0500, Kurt Ullman wrote:
er I mean ship... Costa Crociere SpA, which offered support to the captain in the hours after the emergency, has now turned its back on the man who is under investigation for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship. Schettino, who was jailed after he left the ship, is under house arrest near Naples. Costa in recent days has suspended Schettino, announced it is no longer paying his legal fees and has signed on as a civil party in the prosecution, a move that positions it as an injured party and would allow it to seek damages in the case of a guilty verdict. I have yet to see one report about the man more likely to be guilty of a crime than the Captain of the ship. The Staff Captain. |
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Costa throws Capt under the bus..
On 1/20/2012 8:13 PM, Gettamulla Tupya wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:54:55 -0500, Kurt wrote: er I mean ship... Costa Crociere SpA, which offered support to the captain in the hours after the emergency, has now turned its back on the man who is under investigation for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship. Schettino, who was jailed after he left the ship, is under house arrest near Naples. Costa in recent days has suspended Schettino, announced it is no longer paying his legal fees and has signed on as a civil party in the prosecution, a move that positions it as an injured party and would allow it to seek damages in the case of a guilty verdict. I have yet to see one report about the man more likely to be guilty of a crime than the Captain of the ship. The Staff Captain. I agree with these comments that place blame with the Captain but I also question the complicity of a company that would promoted this man to a position of responsibility (who chose a hasty exit to a lifeboat, together with other senior officers (if this proves to be the case)). Let's review: People died, people are missing, a $400M Euro ship is on the rocks with tons of fuel that may yet pollute the coast, 1000 ship hands are unemployed, 100s (?) of vendors that (probably) had contracts to supply (food/drink/excursions) future cruises are ended, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of future passengers are left looking for alternatives. This is not just the failure of the ship's officer staff to fulfill their duty but a COLOSSAL corporate **** up! |
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Costa throws Capt under the bus..
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Jim G wrote: I agree with these comments that place blame with the Captain but I also question the complicity of a company that would promoted this man to a position of responsibility (who chose a hasty exit to a lifeboat, together with other senior officers (if this proves to be the case)). Pure Peter Principle. People tend to rise to the level of their incompetence. Problem is you never know the level of incompetence until they exhibit it. Six inches to the left and we never know he is imcompetent. -- People thought cybersex was a safe alternative, until patients started presenting with sexually acquired carpal tunnel syndrome.-Howard Berkowitz |
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Costa throws Capt under the bus..
On 1/20/12 6:54 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
er I mean ship... Costa Crociere SpA, which offered support to the captain in the hours after the emergency, has now turned its back on the man who is under investigation for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship. Schettino, who was jailed after he left the ship, is under house arrest near Naples. Costa in recent days has suspended Schettino, announced it is no longer paying his legal fees and has signed on as a civil party in the prosecution, a move that positions it as an injured party and would allow it to seek damages in the case of a guilty verdict. The Captain had apparently done the same thing 3-4 times before. Wonder why nobody from the company bothered to check the route he took those times. It would show the same deviation from the course. They spend a lot of time tracking the course on paper charts... doesn't anybody bother looking at them? Or the former senior captain that the current captain was waving to and on the phone with, wonder why he never bothered to call the company about the unsafe maneuver his former subordinate was performing? Or even the junior officers who were on the bridge. A simple phone call to the head office, even if confidentially, that the captain was repeatedly deviating from the course could have solved the problem. |
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Costa throws Capt under the bus..
Tom K wrote:
The Captain had apparently done the same thing 3-4 times before. Wonder why nobody from the company bothered to check the route he took those times. It would show the same deviation from the course. They spend a lot of time tracking the course on paper charts... doesn't anybody bother looking at them? Or the former senior captain that the current captain was waving to and on the phone with, wonder why he never bothered to call the company about the unsafe maneuver his former subordinate was performing? Or even the junior officers who were on the bridge. A simple phone call to the head office, even if confidentially, that the captain was repeatedly deviating from the course could have solved the problem. Not just what he did in the past. The ship is tracked at all times these days. Someone should be monitoring the route at all times. If they have not been monitoring the actual real time position of their ships that is something they need to start doing now. Also they need to allow the crew to say no to the Captain if there is a safety violation if there is now not such a rule. Hopefully they are not still following 19th century rules. -- Charles |
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Costa throws Capt under the bus.. - Tom
i should have said jr. officers don't snitch on the captain !
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Costa throws Capt under the bus.. - Tom
it's like this ~ doctors don't snitch on other doctors. lawyers don't
snitch on other lawyers. cops don't snitch on other cops, and "Jr. officers" don't snitch on other officers. |
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