months before being finally recovered. Initial investigation by the Italian authorities pointed out that human error made by Captain Schettino is to be blamed for the incident, stressing that he ordered the ship to be steered too close to a shallow and unsafe water thus colliding it to a rock on the edge of Giglio Island. Authorities also criticized the captain of the manner he handled the situation, saying that the deaths and injuries could be traced to the late announcement and execution of order to abandon ship where at that time the ship listed heavily making the evacuation and lowering of lifeboats severely difficult, Italian Coast Guard also criticized him of fleeing from the capsizing ship despite still having passengers and crew left behind. According to some experts, this could be a result of a response called behavioral inaction where the intense magnitude and gravity of the situation or crisis overwhelms the person therefore leaving him or her shocked and frozen. He was detained and was tried for multiple counts of manslaughter and negligence and abandonment of duty. Later on in
Although the location of the incident is entirely irrelevant, the resemblance is profound on damage that caused both ships to capsize: the damaging of its hull due to collision against an immobile obstacle. Both the Costa Concordia and the Titanic were capsized due to the severe flooding of its bulkhead compartments that can be blamed on the damaged hull, both collided against an immobile obstacle that ripped open its hull and severely flooded its compartments, and despite both being designed with double bottom tanks, both were struck by intense force on their side way above their double bottom