Side Note:
”Guests told CNN that they did not know at the time that a fellow passenger had gone overboard. Passenger Mike Anderson told the outlet that the ship’s guests were told there would be a delay in arriving in Mexico. (Break) A public address announcement later informed them that a man had gone overboard but the ship had been released from the search and was now able to resume its course for Cozumel.”
The less known, the smaller the TV face time, the less the price of the lawsuit. A number of years ago my wife and I were sailing on a major cruise line ship going north toward Alaska from Seattle and the first night of the cruise there were extremely rough seas as we were going basically into the wind. The water was blowing on deck and the captain closed off the outside decks for safety purposes.
As it was the first night of the cruise the captain slowed the ship down so the entertainment performance on the main ball stage could go on and the performers wouldn’t fall down with the movement of the ship. When the show was over, the captain strongly recommended everyone call it a night. They then ordered the ship back up to speed so they could make their first stop on time. Wife and I went to our room and got together in the sack with pillows at our backs to hold us in place. Long night.
When we rose the next morning, the ship was docking and everything was quiet weather wise. When we tried to get to our docking exit, we were stopped a deck short and the ship announced they were having some trouble with entering requirements from the ship to our first stop in Alaska. Some of us were a little confused as we went from one US port to another US port without any docking. Their announcement wasn’t the truth.
They had sealed up all normal entry to the passenger docking deck to move injured passenger out to medical assistance before those that made it through the night without being hurt could get off the ship. Among those that were exited first were people with broken bones on a few passengers and two heart attacks among others. It was very obvious the line was trying to protect itself from passenger problems by lying.
I think I see the same scenario here. And if they had not found the passenger, or found him dead, the second announcement and/or fessing up to the problem would never have been known by the passengers until they read a redacted news release on CNN later.
Wy69
“It was very obvious the line was trying to protect itself from passenger problems by lying”
Ever noticed NO cruise ships are registered in the U.S.? there’s a reason for that.