It is interesting to read the accounts of how the evacuations from the Costa Concordia were conducted when it listed to one side off the coast of Italy. ‘Women and children first’…really? in this day and age are we honestly expecting men to stay and risk drowning so that women can be saved…? going by eye-witness accounts the truth is obvious. Equality reigns in survival situations if you ask any man. But to suggest that children not be given priority in an emergency situation is simply ridiculous – and of course if children are involved then their parents have to be involved with them. It is a hard one to call, especially if you have never been in such a situation yourself.
I only know that I would be desperate to see my family safe before myself. ‘Parents and children first’ should be the policy, there has to be some system in place because children would be the most vulnerable in the case of an emergency. It is not nice to read that adults were fighting each other to get onto the lifeboats but fear, and the over-riding sense of self-survival, is a natural instinct in all of us. Unless you’re a parent…then your child’s survival over-rides even your own.
RIP to those who did not make it.
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