[chii]

how can it be criminal when it's not you who instigated the issue in the first place? It should be criminal on the upper management imho.

[zrail]

There's nothing a captain can do about a bankrupt company. There is definitely a lot a captain can do about a ship that they've been given exclusive control over. That's part of being a captain: your sole responsibility is to get the ship where it's supposed to go without running into things or sinking or injuring the crew.

[josscrowcroft]

I recall one major case (the Costa Concordia) in which the captain abandoned the sinking ship, survived, and later faced prosecution.

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