Concordia captain's stunt blamed for cruise wreck

[Swede]

The dangerous manoeuvre that caused the Costa Concordia cruise ship to crash into rocks off the shore of the Italian island of Giglio last month was likely the result of a rivalry between its captain and that of another ship to see who could get closest to the island when sounding the customary salute that vessels give when passing shore.

Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, had sent an email just weeks before the Jan. 13 disaster to another captain who had managed to sound his ship's horn from closer than the eight kilometres considered safe.

In that email, Schettino vowed to pull the same stunt and do it better, according to Italian investigative journalist Carlo Bonini


http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/02/f-fifth-estate-concordia.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. yikes. The smoking gun

[Justice wanted]

2. So it was a freakin game of chicken that risked other's lives.

[virgogal]

5. Astonishing,isn't it? Two adults acting worse than adolescents.

[Justice wanted]

8. more like a sad commentary on what society has become.

[Swede]

3. A guy from New Jersey was just on the documentary.

He was praising the waiters and cooks for coordinating the abandonment of the ship. He never saw the captain or crew.

[Zalatix]

4. This planet sucks.

[virgogal]

6. It's a great planet,that's why we're tring to save it. It's the

asshole human types that suck.

[Texasgal]

7. So.. the story comes out.

What a piece of shit captain.

[Al Rowden]

9. Idiotic

Like little ten-year-olds!!!
I guess this should be expected from the guy who said he "fell into the lifeboat."