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Originally Posted by Kaleu. Jochen Mohr
its a captains duty to go off the ship as last person. this includes the dead.
so practicaly the captain go's down with the ship.
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Could I ask why you believe that the captain must sacrifice his own life to fulfill his 'duty' to the dead?
In my opinion the captain should stay on board the ship as long as possible in order to coordinate the evacuation. This obviously puts his life in danger compared to getting off as soon as possible. However, once it's clear that the orderly evacuation is at an end (i.e. the ship is actually going under), there is no advantage to be gained by staying with the ship and the captain should leave if possible.
In the situation described by Kapitan, I would say that any collision involving passenger-carrying vessels is life-threatening so the first thing I would do is to send out mayday signals and have people assemble at the life-boat stations. If your list is 12 degrees and getting worse, you don't want to be hanging around to see what develops.