Everyone should stay on board until everybody is safe , experts say . The Sewol and the Concordia captains buck a tradition of staying with the ship . In a promotional video from 2010 , he is pictured in the wheelhouse of a ship , looking out to sea through binoculars . In Italy , South Korea and other countries , abandoning ship can be a crime . A captain 's early departure can leave a power vacuum , a maritime expert says .
Everyone should stay on board until everybody is safe , experts say . The Sewol and the Concordia captains buck a tradition of staying with the ship . In Italy , South Korea and other countries , abandoning ship can be a crime . A captain 's early departure can leave a power vacuum , a maritime expert says .