{"id":22253,"date":"2014-11-06T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22253"},"modified":"2014-11-06T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:00:32","slug":"thursday-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22253","title":{"rendered":"Lifeboat Fatality Raises A Question\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a bad cruise-ship accident a couple of weeks ago. It was on the Coral Princess<\/a>, a ship we cruised on a couple of years ago. It involved a lifeboat, perhaps one that was on the Coral Princess a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

Two crew members fell into the water inside a lifeboat. One of them died. The other is in hospital with injuries. That makes it a bad accident\u2026not that there are ever any good ones.<\/p>\n

The ship was in Colon<\/a>, Panama at the time. The crew members were doing maintenance to \"Coral\"<\/a>the ship’s hull, from a lifeboat. As the lifeboat was being raised back into position, a cable snapped and the lifeboat plunged into the water.<\/p>\n

As with all accidents, there is a tendency to say\u2026these things happen.<\/p>\n

But this one raises a serious question.<\/p>\n

Lifeboats carry as many as 300 people at once. If a cable snaps with two people in a lifeboat, even if the accident was due to human error, how safe are lifeboats when carrying 200 or 300 passengers?<\/p>\n

Today at\u00a0portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m:\u00a0Regal Princess \u2014 now it’s official!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Norwegian Sky
\n<\/a>3 nights
\nNovember 28, 2014
\nMiami<\/a> (return): Nassau<\/a>, Great Stirrup Cay
\n<\/a>Inside: $129
\nCost per day: $43<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a bad cruise-ship accident a couple of weeks ago. It was on the Coral Princess, a ship we cruised on a couple of years ago. It involved a lifeboat, perhaps one that was on the Coral Princess a couple of years ago. Two crew members fell into the water inside a lifeboat. One… Continue reading Lifeboat Fatality Raises A Question\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":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[984,137,343,912,72,819,1200,35,126,375,26,27,957],"class_list":["post-22253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-accidents","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-coral-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ship-accidents","tag-cruises","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sky","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253","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=22253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}