Captains are expected to get everybody else off a sinking ship before worrying about themselves. But the code of nautical chivalry does not require civilian skippers to steer their way into gunfire to save vulnerable lives, as the man in charge of one Tunisian boat off Sousse did on Friday. Nor is the captain’s code normally assumed to extend to hoteliers. But as tourists fled Seifeddine Rezgui’s bullets, they found staff “running towards the beach when we were running away”. More here.
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