<Li> August 3--4, 1991: Captain Yiannis Avranas of the cruise ship MTS Oceanos abandoned ship without informing passengers that the ship was sinking . All passengers survived . A Greek board of inquiry found Avranas and four officers negligent in their handling of the disaster . </Li> <Li> January 13, 2012: Captain Francesco Schettino abandoned ship during the Costa Concordia disaster . 32 people died in the accident . Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role . </Li> <Li> April 16, 2014: Captain Lee Joon - seok abandoned the South Korean ferry MV Sewol . The captain and much of the crew were saved, while hundreds of students from Danwon High School embarked for their trip remained in their cabins, according to instructions provided by the crew . Many passengers apparently remained on the sinking vessel and died . Following this incident, the captain was arrested and put on trial beginning in early June 2014, when video footage filmed by some survivors and news broadcasters showed him being rescued by a coast guard vessel . Orders to abandon ship never came, and the vessel sank with all life rafts still in their stowage position . The captain was subsequently sentenced to 36 years in prison for his role in the deaths of the passengers, and was also given a life sentence, after being found guilty of murder of the 304 passengers that did not survive . </Li> <Li> June 1, 2015: The Chinese captain of the river cruise ship Dong Fang Zhi Xing left the ship before most passengers were rescued . On June 13, 442 deaths were confirmed with 12 rescued among 454 on board . It was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in China's history . </Li>

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