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Diver, retired accident investigator with the u.s. coast guard. you say it would have been better to say nothing than towo. explain what happened in the disaster that followed that word from the crew, don't move, don't move. >> well, in an emergency situation, people will do what they're told to do. these kids were told what to do and they did. it was absolutely the wrong choice to make, certainly. those on the outside made it and the rest of them we're looking for. so that idea that they should stay still, it's more dangerous doesn't line up with anyone's training, anyone's procedures or what...

Of the navigation of the vessel, he should be. secondly, the miscommunication to the passen je engers about "n place." thirdly, what people have not really talked about, is the fact that he had 45 life rafts and failed to get them to the life rafts at all. at the time, he was talking about "stay in place" he should have been talking about, get to your muster stations, get to your life rafts. then of course the vessel is completely in peril, it's listing by all accounts early on 10 degrees which is a very significant list or tilt off of center to the port actually in this case, and at that time...

Muster stations and deployed the life rafts. and by that, we would have seen a lot more people that probably would have survived the incident. his dern was that the water was cold and there was a great current there. and that's true. that's a concern he should have been thinking about, but the main concern was to get people off the vessel because she was foundering very quickly. he was in serious trouble and he needed to evacuate that ship and he just didn't do it. >> is there an international law that governs what captains of ships are required to do? you have the old saw, the captain should ...

Circumstance, reflects, i think, poorly, on this -- not only this captain, i mean, he's got his hoodie on, looking downing, he's disgraces. the issues are broader and deeper than just pointing the finger at one person. you've got to look at the ferry company itself. the marine company, their training, their safety culture? were there lifeboat drills? muster drills? were these children sent to the muster stations before the ship? >> cnn's alexandra field joins me with more. what other allegations is this capital facing? >> reporter: a slew of them, fred. abandoning ship, negligence, causing bod...

Were going to be swept away. how do you rate the validity of that argument? >> i don't think that there's any validity to that argument. that's a good question. you know, this is like the costa concordia where there were mixed signals. signals right away from the bridge. who knows whether it's from the captain were to stay in place, as it was here, as the message was here. you are talking to teenagers, a lot of teenagers who some of them, a lot of them, most of them, obeyed those instructions. that was, as we see here, that was the wrong message to send. he should have been, the captain should...