Costa Concordia captain: I've been portrayed as worse than Osama bin Laden Widely dubbed "captain coward" by the Italian media, Capt Schettino has also been accused of refusing point blank to return to the ship once he had reached the shore, despite the fact that passengers remained on board the sinking vessel. After the Titanic shipwreck, a number of things were revised. We have to do the same thing now. The rules must be revised," he said. Prosecutors are expected to call soon for eight people to stand trial: Schettino, other crew members and managers from the ship's owner Costa Crociere, which is part of the world's biggest cruise operator, US-based Carnival. Meanwhile coastguards have criticised five German cruise ship passengers who hired an inflatable boat to get a close look at the Concordia wreck, that needed to be rescued after it was engulfed by waves.