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Passengers and the ship at all times. he -- that's a responsibility that he has. >> so you're not surprised that he's been arrested, charged apparently with manslaughter and other crimes. are you surprised at that? >> well, first of all, this was a terrible tragedy. this was a shocking tragedy because this -- this industry has an outstanding safety record and when an incident occurs like this affecting so many people, it is in fact a real tragedy and the italian officials are doing exactly what they should be doing which is to find out what happened. and to -- to make the appropriate recommend...

I don't know what it was. but at that time, the ship started tilting slowly to one side. we were waiting for it to stop but it kept tilting until everything started falling off the tables and the chair started rolling. >> oh, no. david, we're looking at some of the video that you shot with your camera. it looks like you're in one of the dining areas. when you realized what was happening, did it seem to you like you were in some sort of a disaster movie? >> it -- the beginning, i was very calm. i didn't think anything was gonna happen. i think -- i tried to keep calm. i tried to keep my wife ca...

Boat and left the boat around midnight, there were still people on the boat and the coast guard said to him you have to go back on the boat, get these people off and he didn't go back. >> we're looking at, by the way, live pictures right there. let's go back to the very first point that you made and that was, you know, the reason it's there right now is because it came too close and you're suggesting that the captain drove the ship close to the island as a favor or a salute to the maitre d'. >> exactly. he was from the island and, i mean, it sounds incredible. i actually spoke with one peruvia...

Manner which includes in the safe depth of water which it obviously wasn't. >> we're just looking now at all the photos of this disaster area. you can see how rocky this coastline is. another allegation is that the captain is saying that those rocks weren't on the map that he was looking at although that would be hard to know since apparently the other allegation is that he was either at the restaurant or in the bar. >> well, he obviously has other officers that can navigate that ship and are on watch navigating the vessel. but this is a well traveled area. it had -- and i would be surprised t...

You know, i've been doing these type of cases for 30 years representing people who have been involved in incidents and disasters on cruise ships. i've been doing that from miami for about 30 years. this is incredible. i thought i've seen everything. >> let's talk about seeing everything. two points, the law of the sea says captain is not supposed to be getting off that ship before everyone else. right? so that's a big deal criminally. right? >> absolutely. that captain is in charge of his ship and, you know, the old adage. the captain goes down with the ship. he is responsible for that ship an...