Abandon ship? In recent maritime disasters, captains don't hang around

[davester]

haikuman wrote:
Dave, I would like to politely ask what you can tell us about International Maritime Training in General.
Especially in Asia *(:>* ?

Everything I know is based on stories from my bro', who is a merchant marine ship's master- unlimited tonnage-all oceans who has spent much of his career sailing the seas of the middle and far east Although he's only sailed US flagged ships, he's talked a lot about other flags. Although cbelt's generalizations can apply to a few flags of convenience and some US ships, I think that they so vastly oversimplify the issues as to be meaningless.

In any case, neither South Korea nor Italy are flags of convenience.