This is a cruise ship passengers worst nightmare coming to life. Just picture a lovely sunset and you are on the deck enjoying a delectable dinner with your friends and then the boats shakes and soon you realize that the boat hit ground. Now, it has been said that this was due to human error. The $450 million cruise ship ran aground of an Italian islands due to, "
an unapproved, unauthorized maneuver to divert from its programmed course", (Pianigiani). A crew member took the 4,200 passengers to close to the shoreline. This incidents is not taken lightly, "The Italian police detained Captain Schettino for questioning on charges of manslaughter, failure to offer assistance and abandonment of the ship", (Pianigiani). I am glad that someone will be held responsible for this horrible tragedy.
Events like this should not happen in the 21st century seeing how advanced G.P.S. and underwater cameras are today. The captain should not have gotten that close to shore, it was a careless more and writer Gaia Pianigiani agrees with me. Someone needs to be held responsible and I am happy that it is the captain, he is in charge and should have prevented this. So far, the death toll is at six, but rising everyday as more people are reported missing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/world/europe/death-toll-rises-to-6-in-italian-cruise-ship-accident.html?_r=1&hp
I heard about this! I agree with your opinion- in this day and age with the technology we have at our fingertips, things as silly as this shouldn't happen and can be easily prevented.
ReplyDelete