It's No Pit yet of the captain of the Concordia? Allow me

“I’ll have a scotch – ON THE ROCKS!”

Good one! :smiley:

I really need to spend more time with Italian literature. If Lord Jim had been written by one of them instead of by an Anglicized Pole, blowjobs would have figured more prominently in the protagonist’s fall from grace.

This guy is fucked beyond fucked. He’s going to land his ass in jail, and probably be killed in short order.

He’s got a career ahead of him piloting oil supertankers off the coast of Alaska.

Compare the Costa Line captain, with Captain Smith (of the RMS Titanic):
-Capt. Smith stayed on his ship-till it sank
-Caot. Smith told the radio operators to leave-when it was obvious that nothing more could be done
-Smith continued to supervise his officers-even as the bridge was submerging
Capt. Schettino took off, and ignored the Coast Guard order to return to his ship
We don’t even know who was on watch when the ship struck the reef-presumably this will all come out in the court of inquiry.
Anybody know what punishment Italian Maritime Law provides for a captain who leaves his duty station?

12 years in prison, is the maximum sentence that I’ve seen reported in the news.

Here’s an irony. According to the CEO of the company that owns Concordia, Schettino was initially hired as a safety officer. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that he and Homer Simpson had the same job.

I know Homer was briefly a submarine commander – was he ever a ship’s captain?

That’s odd, there is never snow in the Alps in June.

Oh. Now, I get that joke about the glass-bottomed Italian navy!

Or even better from the Bruce Willis movie *The Last Boy Scout (1991) *

It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. 'Whoops! I’m so sorry, Mrs. H. I guess this just isn’t my week.'”

I heard an interview with some of the passengers. They said they never saw any of the ship’s officers during the evacuation. They said the only member of the crew they saw doing anything to help the passengers was one of the showgirls.

They’ve even got an empty prison cell since they let Amanda Knox go.

Good heavens, you’re RIGHT!! Why…I’m beginning to think that the Italian captain behaved BADLY in this situation, ralph! Thank you, THANK YOU for coming in to point that out to us, elsewise this unthinking commendation and support for the captain would have continued unabated! Nothing, no matter how subtle or obscure, gets past ol’ Eagle-Eyes ralphie here.

This dude sounds more and more like Zapp Brannigan with every new piece of information.

“Here’s a course with some chest hair!”

Did anyone else picture Zapp Brannigan when you first heard about this story?

ETA: DAMMIT friedo! “You win again, gravity”.

Unpossible. If someone had thought of Zapp Brannigan surely they would have mentioned it in the thread already.

edit: I think this is a rare double-ninja situation.

Whew!

Well if anyone’s thinking of getting a place there in Tuscany don’t bother. There’s really nothing available.

I read somewhere that the only crew member who stayed onboard till the end of the evacuation was the (named, but I don’t remmeber his name)…ship’s accountant!

Wouldn’t vouch for the truth of this statement, though.

Anyway this captain is a living caricature, the kind of guy Hollywood wouldn’t show in a movie (just before the hero comes onboard to save the day) because it wouldn’t be credible.