{"id":2628,"date":"2010-08-10T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2010-08-10T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:18:56","slug":"disney-magic-cruise-ship-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"Magic of Disney to Another Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From all our cruises, only once have we been on a ship when somebody was rescued at sea. And we didn’t even know about the rescue, let alone see it.<\/p>\n

There was a good reason. It happened at 4 a.m. and, while it lasted two and a half hours, we’re not always up at the crack of dawn (we think of “dawn” as more of a Mafia boss). Word seeped under our cabin door when we were informed our ship, the Norwegian Sun<\/a>, was running two hours behind schedule and this is why.<\/p>\n

Such rescues by cruise ships are more common that you might think. On Friday, there was another one. A passenger on the Disney Magic<\/a> posted a note about it on a Disney<\/a> discussion board, and USA Today’s Gene Sloan picked up on it, confirming the event with Disney, although the official version was a little less dramatic than the passenger’s.<\/p>\n

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Eighteen Algerians had been adrift in the Mediterranean for days. No wonder they called this ship Magic.<\/p>\n

“The shipboard team heard crew members from two other vessels talking on the radio about sighting the boat and then losing a visual of it, so the Disney Magic then joined the search and quickly spotted the small boat, which had lost power,” Disney spokeswoman Rena Langley told Sloan.<\/p>\n

Holland America’s Westerdam<\/a> also rescued some Algerians in 2007. The Carnival Valor<\/a> rescued 10 Cuban refugees on a home-made boat in the Caribbean that same year, and the Golden Princess<\/a> fished a Seattle couple and their dogs out of a small boat in rough waters en route to Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the MSC Poesia<\/a> crew assisted in saving four people whose boat had capsized off the coast of Miami\u2026it’s likely every cruise line has a rescue story.<\/p>\n

Disney is averaging one a year. In 2009, the Disney Wonder<\/a> pulled from Caribbean waters a cruiser who’d gone overboard in the night\u2026from a Carnival<\/a> cruise ship.<\/p>\n

The latest Disney adventure took place, like ours by Norwegian<\/a>, at 4 a.m. We’d have missed this one, too.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From all our cruises, only once have we been on a ship when somebody was rescued at sea. And we didn’t even know about the rescue, let alone see it. There was a good reason. It happened at 4 a.m. and, while it lasted two and a half hours, we’re not always up at the… Continue reading Magic of Disney to Another Level<\/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":[16,25,19,15],"tags":[86,35,28,287,288],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-disney","tag-disney-magic","tag-rescue-at-sea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","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=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}