Survival 'attitude' on the Costa Concordia

[monkeybird]

Both my husband and I like to cruse and have gone on several. So, when the Costa Concordia went aground on the rocks, I was particularly interested. As I watched the news and listened carefully to some of the people who got of uninjured and safe, I was struck by their 'survival' instinct. The common thread was that they didn't wait to be told what to do. They assessed the situation and ACTED. I was particularly impressed by the women who shook one of the crew who was trying to make her go back to her stateroom and demanded directions to the life boats. He gave up and told her. Or the other couple who got their passports and credit cards out of the stateroom safe, got off the ship and flew themselves home, refusing to wait on the cruise ship to 'take care of them'.

Someone of this forum recommended the book Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales, I read it. When I heard these survival stories from the Concordia, I compared it with the book, and it matched. People who survive are the ones who assess carefully and ACT.