Cruise Ship Disasters
Seabourn Spirits was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2005
Real Somali pirates.
After sailing for more than a day without a single ship insight, suddenly two boats started firing at the Seabourn Spirits cruise liner off the cost of Somalia.
Pirates were attacking the ship.
The 302 passengers were all shuffled into the main ballroom, as the ship's crew attempted to create a wake in the boat's path to deter the pirates. Finally, they used an on-board loud acoustic bang to fool the pirates into thinking those aboard the cruise ship were firing back.
The Norwegian Dawn was hit by a 70-foot wave in 2005, causing two injuries and the flooding of 62 cabins
While sailing between New York City and the Bahamas, The Norwegian Dawn was hit with a 70-foot wave that reached up to deck 10 of the ship. Sixty-two cabins were flooded, and two people suffered minor injuries.
Speaking of the aftermath Bill Tesauro told the Daily News:
“That’s when the captain announced that drinks are free all night,” “But then there was another horrendous slap on the water.”
Source: msnbc.com
A young man fell off the side of a Royal Caribbean ship after being served too much to drink
In 2006, on board the Royal Caribbean ship, Mariner of The Seas, a young man named Daniel Dipiero went missing while on a cruise with his friends.
After have gone missing 18-hours prior, his family was alerted to his disappearance. Slowly, the pieces started coming together of what had really happened to Daniel.
Surveillance video arose of him walking alone, and falling over the side of the ship. But has the investigation went deeper, the FBI uncovered that one bar tender on board stopped serving Daniel drinks as he was severely intoxicated, but Daniel and his friends just left that area for another and continued to drink more.
After falling asleep on a lounge chair on the deck around midnight, Daniel woke up around 2:15 a.m. threw up over the railing, and then slid off the ship. The ship admitted to not monitoring its surveillance cameras, therefore never seeing what happened to Daniel while there was time to act.
two U.S. men plead guilty to indecent exposure after they had sex on balcony of Caribbean gay cruise ship while it was in full view of the dock
- Men were spotted having wild sex on Celebrity Summit from dock in Dominica, where sex between two men is illegal
The two initially were arrested on suspicion of the local equivalent of sodomy in the eastern Caribbean island, which prohibits sex between two men.The men's attorney, Bernadette Lambert, said they were remorseful.'They were struck by the beautiful mountains, the clean and clear fresh air and were having a few cocktails, and so threw caution to the wind,' she told the court.Chief Magistrate Evaline Baptiste ordered the men to pay a nearly $900 fine after calling them 'rogues and vagabonds'.They made no comment after the hearing and police drove the men to the airport after they were released.The two were aboard the Celebrity Summit cruise ship that had departed Puerto Rico on Saturday with about 2,000 passengers. The ship departed for St Barts late Wednesday, leaving the men behind.
A young woman claimed she was slipped a date rape drug aboard the Carnival Miracle
A young woman was casually drinking by the pool on board, when the a waiter presented her with her fourth drink that she did not order, according toa report on International Cruise Victims' message board.
Her first three drinks were orange and pink, but this one was blue. She insisted she didn't order it, but the waiter persisted that she did and forgot. The woman decided to sip the drink casually, she wrote.
But after a few sips, she was already feeling funny and headed back to her cabin. She then became unsteady, started vomiting and blacked out, she said.
She wrote that she passed out on her bed and was awoken to a telephone call, where a male asked if she needed more towels in her room. Despite her weary state, the woman said "no," after being aware her room had already been cleaned.
he woman wrote on InternationalCruiseVictims.org:
"I am a responsible adult, fully aware of when I have had too much to drink. This was not the case here! I believe a date rape drug had been slipped into my last drink."
Another 14-year-old girl said she was raped on the Carnival Freedom in February 2011
After having trouble falling asleep one night aboard the Carnival Freedom, 14-year-old Taylor traveled to an upper deck to write about her dream vacation in her journal.
There, Taylor told ABC News, 30-year-old Carnival cruise line employee from Indonesia, who she recognized from him waiting on her family during meals, raped her in an employee-only room.
man died after allegedly catching Legionnaires' Disease on the M.S. Black Watch in 2007
After bacteria was discovered on a Fred Olsen Cruise in 2007, the trip ended early, according to the UK Telegraph.
But days after returning home, passenger Robert Heath felt ill. He was prescribed antibiotics but died in his home days after returning from the cruise.
An inquest later ruled that Fred Olsen Cruises exposed Heath to Legionnaires' disease, and found that the two doctors he saw did not prescribe adequate medication and failed to respond to his worsening condition, the Telegraph wrote.
The cruise line eventually paid out over $100,000 to settle the case.
Source: The UK Telegraph
350 people became ill aboard a Caribbean Cruise liner in Feb. 2010
More than 350 people began to began to vomit, complain of diarrhea and upset stomachs aboard a Caribbean cruise ship last year. Twenty-seven of the 850 crew members also complained of symptoms.
There were 1,800 total passengers.
It was unclear what caused the outbreak, though Norovirus is often blamed for the spreading of such symptoms in close quarters.
The Carnival Splendor's engine room caught on fire in November 2010, causing passengers to cope with unflushed toilets, bags of vomit and only Spam to eat
The Splendor left for a seven-day cruise to Mexico, but when the engine room caught fire, the trip was shorten to three days of hell.
Besides the lack of power, the 3,299 passengers didn't have toilets for 13 hours, had only rations of food to eat because the refrigerators were useless and watched Navy helicopters fly in supplies.
The Daily News reported:
Passenger Lenora Chavez told CNN that plumbing was pushed to the limit and vomit bags were strewn about the corridors.
"It smells like a lot of people are throwing up," she said. "I can smell that a lot."
"It was supposed to be this beautiful cruise and it turned into a nightmare," newlywed passenger Sabrina Klinge texted to her father Paul Patrick. "Nothing like this was advertised in the brochure."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/costa-concordia-cruise-ship-disasters-2012-1?op=1#ixzz2q3QQjCF4
No comments:
Post a Comment