Why does “the captain go down with the ship”?
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The captain often knows about problems before any passengers, and gets to tell the crew what to do, giving them a lot of control over how to respond to those problems. It would be very easy to abuse that power to be the FIRST one off the ship, giving them a higher chance of survival than anyone else.
Also, without the captain on board, rescue efforts would be impeded — it’s hard to handle a disaster when nobody is in charge. And impeded rescue efforts means more casualties.
So to keep the captain from saving themself at the cost of others’ lives, we insist that they stay on until the end.
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