{"id":14408,"date":"2012-09-21T01:12:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=14408"},"modified":"2012-09-21T01:12:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T08:12:45","slug":"friday-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=14408","title":{"rendered":"Costa Concordia: Something Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cruise industry will always remember the Costa<\/a> Concordia. If it's not a modern-day version of the Titanic, its impact on the industry is of titanic proportions.<\/p>\n

That part happened on Thursday, eight months and seven days after the Concordia<\/a> keeled over in Mediterranean waters off the Italian coast, killing 32 passengers.<\/p>\n

Thursday's fallout was this:<\/p>\n

At least once every six months, crew members on ocean-going cruise ships must undergo \"\"<\/a>rigorous training with lifeboats, simulating actual emergency conditions. Lifeboats will be filled to capacity with other crew members and lowered into the water, so that crew members know exactly what to do in an emergency. All crew members involved in "operating or loading of lifeboats" must attend the drill.<\/p>\n

Training begins immediately.<\/p>\n

Who says cruise lines have to comply?<\/p>\n

The Cruise Lines International Association<\/a> and the European Cruise Council<\/a> will order all its members to implement the new policy, which is called Life Boat Loading for Training Purposes<\/em>. That pretty much covers all major cruise lines.<\/p>\n

The review that led to Thursday's announcement began right after the Concordia wrecked on the rocks and turned onto its starboard side. It still sits in the waters where the accident occurred and it will be sometime next year before it is returned to port.<\/p>\n

To all cruise lines, passenger safety is the No. 1 priority because, frankly, it's the one thing that can topple the entire fleet of lines. That's now less likely to happen, thanks to the Concordia.<\/p>\n

But that's what everybody thought before the fateful Friday the 13th in January, too.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHolland America Zaandam<\/a>
\n\t14 nights
\n\tNovember 17, 2012
\n\tSan Diego<\/a> (return): Hilo<\/a>, Honolulu<\/a>, Nawilwili, Lahaina<\/a>, Ensenada<\/a>
\n\tInside: $999
\n\tCost per day: $71<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.hollandamerica.com<\/a>
\n\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cruise industry will always remember the Costa Concordia. If it's not a modern-day version of the Titanic, its impact on the industry is of titanic proportions. That part happened on Thursday, eight months and seven days after the Concordia keeled over in Mediterranean waters off the Italian coast, killing 32 passengers. Thursday's fallout was… Continue reading Costa Concordia: Something Good<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1054,851,57,912,72,579,1055,86,35,528,23,841,1056,1057,118,1058,184],"class_list":["post-14408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-clia","tag-costa-concordia","tag-costa-cruise","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-lines","tag-cruise-lines-international-association","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-hawaii","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-zaandam","tag-lifeboat-drills","tag-passenger-safety","tag-san-diego","tag-ship-safety","tag-titanic","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}