who was trying to find a new idea for a film.

and deserting the ship before the passengers.

My God, what in the heck is wrong with that man??

where the ocean liner captain went into "every man for himself" -mode

Maybe it was "Here hold my wine"

The only time I have ever been on a 'big' ship was on a HUGE ferry in Italy that crossed the south of Italy to Sicily.
They put the TRAIN cars that I was traveling on (starting out from Naples) on the ferry and we crossed the water over to the island of Sicily. To me it was really scarey but to everyone else it seemed to be just normal procedure. Everyone that was working there seemed like they knew exactly what they were doing and that took a lot of the fear away.

a few times and yes it was scary the first time

the driver made a wrong turn onto a dead-end road & had to turn around. One side of the bus was a steep hillside, the other side was a cliff (no guard rail) & straight down was the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.

I don't know how the driver did it, but he managed to turn that bus around, all the while each of us were screaming in terror!

You know what I remember more than that terror? My eyes fixated on a cop standing there nonchalantly watching the driver taking forever to (back & forth, back & forth) maneuver that bus. No care. No alarm. His & my eyes locked for a few seconds. That's what I remember most - that cop & others not acknowledging the danger or the screams of terror coming from inside.

The cold of the water would have killed them by now even if they had air and fresh water.

Give him a fair trial first then hang his ass if and when found guilty of murder which this would be, among the many other charges he can and probably will be charged with. IMO

There is no excuse for this.

I hope all of the cruise ships will perform thorough safety and evacuation drills with their crews. The passengers said the crew was useless in the evacuation process.

The fuel needs to be drained soon to avoid an ecological disaster. They are wondering if the ship will have to be cut up to be hauled away.

indicated on the GPS navigation display. The ship's autopilot should not have allowed the ship to cruise into known obstacles. The auto system should not have given the captain authority to cruise blindly into charted dangers without some other unexpected , overriding contingency.

Autopilot must be able to be overridden. I think I read he turned the damn thing off!

The Captains's idea that he had the right to move the boat out of the authorized lanes and make a "flyby" of the island is beyond crazy. The company policy for a vessel of that size and cost should be that the boat doesn't move on inch unless several vital requirements are met.
Among those, a full time navigator, helmsman and someone with captain's authority on the bridge at all times. Any attempts be anyone to move the ship out of the authorized , planned path would be thwarted by the autopilot without expressed, coded overrides, that would need to be justified to the company.

surely one man cannot maneuver one of these mega ships, can he?

didn't any of the staff question their route?

it just makes no sense.

There are two LIGHTHOUSES there marking the rocks, for goodness sake!

He lied about the charts, too.