The Heroes of the Concordia

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The Heroes of the Concordia
Analysis by Rossella Lorenzi
Thu Jan 19, 2012

Stories of courage and heroism aboard the striken luxury cruiser Costa Concordia are beginning to emerge in stark contrast with the behavior of the captain Francesco Schettino.

Branded "Captain Coward" by the international press, Schettino is currently under house arrest on charges that include manslaughter, shipwreck and abandoning ship.

While Schettino watched the rescue operations from the reef, where he had disembarked after having "fallen into a lifeboat" (as he claimed during his first court hearing), another captain, Roberto Bosio, coordinated the ship's evacuation with other crew members.

Bosio, who happened to be on board the Concordia as a passenger, began to evacuate the ship some 13 minutes before Schettino gave the abandon-ship instruction.

"We looked each other in the eyes for a second and then we just got on with it," Bosio, who captains the Concordia's sister ship the Serena, told reporters.

Read more: discovery.com

This is kind of apropos to our current ship of state. We simply cannot depend on our 'captain' (elected leaders) to rescue us from the plight our leaders caused and that has placed us all in mortal danger. I say it is time we, "looked each other in the eye, for a second, and then we just get on with it'.