[QUOTE=Heiwa;65023]Still it is crazy to drive a big ship like CC so close to shore at 16 knots and who is responsible for that ?[/QUOTE]
When I was sailing among the channel islands with a local skipper, he told me the ‘thumb-rule’: Stay away from any danger on the chart at least by the width of your thumb. Any closer you are in ‘danger-zone’ and have to take special precaution (lookout, slow-down, etc). Interestingly enough, this rules scales well when changing scale.
For me this is clearly the captains responsibility here.
The second part is that the ship sank after touching the rock. So it is clearly too fragile. This is the responsibility of Costa/Carnival because they did skimp when specifying/designing/building the ship. Even tankers with 15 man crew on board have double hulls. At the moment it looks like the shipping industry clearly thinks it needs take special precautions ship oil, but not passengers.