Hoping All Our Members are Safe

[ohiopiper]

Last I heard, the captain was being detained for jumping ship and leaving, deserting his post and failing to ensure orderly abandoning of ship.

The cap'n doesn't have to go down with the ship, but he'd better be on board until the last passenger and crew are off.

[BCAC]

Apparently the problem (they hit a rocky "sandbank") was announced 1 hour after it happened. The captain was dining. There were scenes of panic, people climbing over each other and such like. There were not enough lifejackets for everyone. The three fatal casualities died because they paniced, jumped overboard and drowned (only hundreds of yards from the shore).

It makes you wonder about those "floating hotels".