Allora, much like Capitano Schettino then,
that fearless seaman currently still doing time of a 15-year sentence for manslaughter - dereliction of duty when the Costa Concordia capsized in 2012 after a reckless close-to-coast maneuver (to impress the passengers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_SchettinoThe good Capitano claimed he inadvertently "slipped and fell" into one of the earliest life boats leaving the ship and then wished to proceed organizing the evacuation of the cruise ship from the mainland (even though Italian authorities implored him to return to the ship). The cruise ship had more than 4.200 people on board (a quarter of them crew) and 32 of them died due to the delayed, botched and de facto unsupervised (by Schettino) emergency evacuation, which is ironic given how close the ship was to the mainland (weather conditions were fine).
Now of course you can't force someone to be a hero. But if you're not cut out for it, perhaps you shouldn't choose to be Captain of a cruise liner. Had he stayed on the ship until the end (the bridge was never flooded), he'd have been a tragic hero trying to make good on a serious mistake and I doubt that he would have been sent to prison (his professional career would have most likely been over though). Instead he ended as the coward with a long sentence.
