In short, it gives you \u2014 the cruiser \u2014 a place to turn for assistance if you feel the cruise line is not satisfying your concerns. It includes what your rights are (or are not) if a cruise is canceled or if there’s an injury or death on a ship, what to do about safety concerns and how to find out about the frequency of incidents from scouring regular reports compiled by the U.S. Coast Guard<\/a>.<\/p>\n For example, in the most recent three-month report, there were 10 incidents on five cruise lines: two suspicious deaths, three passenger injuries from assaults and five sexual assaults. These are cases “no longer under investigation” by the FBI<\/a>.<\/p>\n If nothing else, it’s what one famous TV detective used to say regularly:<\/p>\n “Just the facts, ma’am.”<\/p>\n Today at\u00a0portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m:\u00a0Dancing With The Stars: At Sea<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Emerald Princess You’re on a cruise and there’s a problem. It could be something relatively small, like a safety issue you spotted that needs reporting, or something big, like sexual assault. What do you do? The U.S. Department of Transportation\u00a0(DOT) launched a webpage this week that, hopefully, will serve as a guide. It’s not just about when… Continue reading DOT Webpage To Guide Cruisers\u00a0<\/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":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[137,912,72,819,1641,35,1764,52,1765,1057,26,27,957,671],"class_list":["post-22198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-numbers","tag-cruises","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-emerald-princess","tag-fbi","tag-passenger-safety","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-u-s-coast-guard","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198","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=22198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
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\n<\/a>5 nights
\nNovember 29, 2014
\nFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): Nassau<\/a>, Princess Cays
\n<\/a>Inside: $199
\nCost per day: $39
\n<\/strong><\/span>www.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"