{"id":16864,"date":"2012-01-16T08:57:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16864"},"modified":"2012-01-16T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:02:57","slug":"captain-to-blame-for-cruise-ship-running-aground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/captain-to-blame-for-cruise-ship-running-aground","title":{"rendered":"Captain To Blame For Cruise Ship Running Aground"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16867\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16867\" title=\"francesco-schettino\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/francesco-schettino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/francesco-schettino.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/francesco-schettino-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captain Francesco Schettino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Costa Cruises says \u2018significant human error\u2019 may have led to Costa Concordia running aground.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise ship owner has made the first official comment on the cause of the tragedy in which at least six people have died and 15 are still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the ship was too close to the shore and questioned Captain Francesco Schettino\u2019s judgment in handling the emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Italian investigators are working on the theory that the \u00a3390million vessel sailed close to the island of Giglio to greet an officer from the Italian merchant navy who was friendly with those on the Concordia, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Last August the vessel passed close to the island sounding its whistle &#8211; prompting the mayor to send a congratulatory email to the captain for providing such a \u2018spectacle to tourists\u2019 and \u2018fantastic entertainment\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The captain denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on Costa Cruises website said: &#8220;We are aware that the lead Prosecutor has levelled serious accusations against the ship\u2019s captain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the investigation is ongoing, preliminary indications are that there may have been significant human error on the part of the ship\u2019s Master, Captain Francesco Schettino, which resulted in these grave consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary investigations indicate that significant human error on the part of the cruise ship&#8217;s captain resulted in the ship running aground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[111,33,73],"class_list":["post-16864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-cruise","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}