On April 16th, a South Korean ferry sank and has left at least 29 dead and hundreds of others missing. The captain however left the ship on a rescue boat, while hundreds of other passengers on board were still left. The captain left a junior officer in charge who had one year of expedience to take control of the wheel. Since the accident of the 475 on board only 179 have been rescued, many of the passengers were high school students. And the former captain has been arrested for his actions by the police. The captain will have a hard time wining the respect of his peers. There are codes that should be never be broken and the captain going down with the ship is one of them.
After seeing the story that happened in South Korea, I remembered the cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy, back in January 13th of 2012. And a similar thing happened, the captain of the ship abandoned it while it went down. The captain was arrested and put on trial for 32 charges of manslaughter, for leaving his sinking vessel while others were on board.
But what has happened to the captain going down with the ship. Captain Edward Smith, the captain of the most famous ship disaster in history, over 100 years ago, went down with the RMS Titanic. And because of his honor and loyalty to the ship, he has gone down into history, and even has his own statue made in his honor because of his actions.
I just find it weird that the most recent ship disasters, that the captain has broke his code to look out for himself.
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