Costa Concordia: the truth is rarely pure and never simple

I do not wish to defend the Captain.

Improvements to safety require a system analysis that aims to identify not only what went wrong but why.
In aviation the system approach to safety investigation started after the 1989 Air Ontario F-28 jet crash at Dryden.
If flying is so safe nowadays, it is also due to that investigation that went beyond the Captain errors.

Your comments demonstrate that in the maritime industry we still have to work on this.

While I do respect your ideas, I was surprised by the harshness of your comments and I will not react to any further provocations.
Is this the tone you would use while discussing with other persons in the real world?

I thought this was a forum to share ideas, and I trust there are professional mariners interested in these discussions.
If not, I will leave soon.