Friday, April 18, 2014

The Ghost of Francesco Schettino.

Twenty nine people are confirmed dead and 270 "missing" after a South Korean ferry capsized. The captain, Lee Joon Seok, is under arrest for causing the wreck by not slowing down and turning too sharply. He's charged with abandoning ship, negligence, etc. Those 270, or nearly all, are going to end up in the dead column, of course, unless you're Malaysian, in which case you hold out "hope" they swam to an island and are safe. By comparison, 32 died on the Costa Concordia.