Recording in Cruise Ship Disaster Casts Captain in Bad Light

As terrified passengers scrambled to avoid the icy waters, Capt. Francesco Schettino sat in a lifeboat on the phone weakly telling rescuers why he had abandoned his luxury cruise ship.

"Commander, I want to go on board, but it is simply that the other boat here … there are other rescuers," Schettino, commander of the grounded Costa Concordia, told Capt. Gregorio De Falco of the Italian coast guard. "It has stopped and is waiting."