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Italian Captain Claims He “Tripped and Fell into the Lifeboat”
In a classic blame-avoidance strategy, the Captain of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship claimed that he wasn’t actually abandoning the ship he steered onto a Tuscan reef, but rather “tripped and fell into the lifeboat”. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/world/europe/costa-concordia-italy-cruise-ship-rescue-suspended.html?_r=1&ref=global-home&gwh=C9D6ED1424F04BF8E70D99E82CE3D612
Sort of makes you think that Silvio Berlusconi might have an encore career opportunity in cruise ship navigation. After all, he successfully navigated a country onto the rocks. And think of the trysting possibilities for all those empty staterooms …
