{"id":6419,"date":"2011-01-24T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T09:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2011-01-24T01:03:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T09:03:48","slug":"carnival-valor-rescue-small-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=6419","title":{"rendered":"The Rescue of Three Men and a Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6424\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/01\/carnival-valor-rescue-small-craft\/valor-605\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6424\" title=\"Valor-605\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Valor-605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a trivia question about cruise ships for you and, so far, there is no answer: How long will it be until the latest cruise-ship rescue is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\">YouTube<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Keep watching.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue took place on Saturday. A boat with three men and a cat (no, not a baby) sent a distress call on Saturday afternoon, 12 miles off the coast of Cuba. No, it&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re thinking. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_valor\/default.aspx?shipCode=VA\">Carnival Valor<\/a> responded to the call, plucked the three men and a cat off the small craft and took them home to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The three left Naples on Thursday and were heading for the Yucatan Peninsula. The Valor was going the other direction, and after the rescue was complete, arrived on time in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/\">Miami<\/a>. The small craft, disabled when a rope became entangled in a propeller, was left behind&#8230;along with a lot of personal belongings, since the boat was its owner&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>So what about YouTube? One of the Valor&#8217;s passengers taped the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Today? Tomorrow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a trivia question about cruise ships for you and, so far, there is no answer: How long will it be until the latest cruise-ship rescue is on YouTube? Answer: Keep watching. The rescue took place on Saturday. A boat with three men and a cat (no, not a baby) sent a distress call on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=6419\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rescue of Three Men and a Cat<\/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":[154,493,86,35,346,288],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-valor","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-cuba","tag-rescue-at-sea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","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=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}