Wednesday, January 18, 2012

No Cruises for us

After the news on the weekend, cruises are done for us. What a horror. The captain of a cruise ship sailed to close to an island so that a signal could be sent to someone on shore. If as he done in the past, the cruise past went well, there would be no problem but this was not the case this time. The ship struck rocks and suddenly without warning the ship capsized. Sadly, it seems that the crew was not well trained and the crew abandoned ship with the captain one of the first off. The crew did not give passengers clear messages as to what they needed to do.
Even after the coast guard pleaded with the captain to return and help with the rescue he refused. It was every person on their own and it seems that there are still at least 25 people are still unaccounted for.
This has certainly tainted my vision as to how well crews are trained. The crew member who was found with the broken leg needs to be congratulated. He had gone back to help passengers and crew. Not leave everyone on their own.

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