Francesco Schettino

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Emerging from a seafaring family in Campania, Schettino completed his training at the Nino Bixio nautical institute and entered the cruise sector in 2002 when Costa Crociere appointed him as a security officer, later promoting him to second-in-command and, by 2006, to captain of the newly launched Costa Concordia. Under his command the vessel suffered a bow collision in Palermo in 2008 and, while…