have destabilized any air pockets that did capacity? not being an oceanographer, i would say possibly leaving the crane and holding that vessel in position just to stabilize it would have been the thing to do and then do the recovery and then possibly lift it farther to the surface. kade, just one quick answer, do you think they re going to find anybody alive? no, i don t, i m afraid i don t. it s so it s such a sorry situation. you know, tomorrow marks the one week. kade courtly, thank you very much, captain jim staples, stick around please. as difficult as the search is, criminal charges are already being filed. more crew members today facing arrest and charges. who ultimately will hold the final responsibility for this disaster? who s responsible? back after this. life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis
be done to try to at least ensure their safety as they do this critical work? well, i ll tell you what, my million dollar question right now is we had these crane ships, these crane vessels, three of them on station for about four to five days now. i don t understand why they were not utilized earlier to at least secure the vessel when it was still on the surface. making the diving operations far less dangerous. that s a good point. the captain s here. there was some discussion that using the cranes to stabilize the ship so that it wouldn t sink further might have actually dislodged any potential air pockets if there were survivors using those air pockets. any truth to that? it s possible. i agree putting the cranes on scene early would have been of great benefit for this recovery, absolutely. do you see the point in that argument, that perhaps the cranes might have done more harm than good? it defies logic but could it
but his officers talked him out of it. the captain was the last person off and never commanded another vessel again. the tale of another italian ship ended very differently. in 2012 when the costa concordia ran aground off the coast of italy, 32 people died. captain francesco sitino got off the ship with hundreds still on board. he says he fell and tripped into a lifeboat. listen as the coast guard ordered him to return to his ship. [ speaking foreign language ] captain shitino is currently on trial. among the charges he s facing, abandoning ship with passengers on board and causing maritime disaster. we found there isn t any national maritime law that says a captain must stay on a sinking ship. many countries like south korea have their own law or follow the safety of life at sea treaty
iceberg. april 1912. the titanic was on its maiden voyage. when the ship started to sink off the coast of canada, captain smith ordered the crew to prepare lifeboats. all passengers put on your life preservers. leave everything. and they said it was a precaution nary measure. captain smith ordered women and children be evacuated first and helped save more than 700 people. he was on the bridge as the ship disappeared, lost among the 1,500 people who perished. decades later, in 1956, an italian vessel, the andrea doria, collided off another ship off nantucket. the captain made a series of errors in dense fog and heavy traffic. yet when the andrea doria began to sink, the captain tried to make sure all the passengers and crew were evacuated. 46 people died. he wanted to go down with the ship and pay for his mistakes.
adopted after the titanic sank. it doesn t require a can t be stay on board but it does say the captain is responsible for the vesselpassengers. that same treaty also says passengers should be allowed to evacuate within 30 minutes. remember, the sewol ferry took more than two hours to sink off south korea. but the passengers were told to stay in place. a warning that may prove to have caused hundreds of lives. randi kaye, cnn, new york. i want to bring back cargo ship captain jim staples, a marine safety consultant. there s another reason why the old legend has it the captain should go down with the ship. perhaps not down but stay with the ship until last possible moment. why is that? that s because of salvage rights. the captain is the owner s representative on that vessel. after his first obligation of getting all the crew and passengers off, the second