Today I had an interesting exchange of information from a guest aboard the Queen Mary 2.
It seems that last night around midnight a German guest (not our source of information) reported that his wife was missing from the ship. He thought that she jumped overboard. There were allegedly footprints on the couple’s balcony table
A passenger commented on Cruise Critic this morning that the Master of the Royal Princess cruise ship announced that a person had been reported overboard and the ship was going to take a head count of the passengers and crew.
The cruise ship performed a partial Williamson maneuver (as shown on AIS systems) and
Last night, ABC 20/20 aired a program about the controversy surrounding the cruise industry’s refusal to install automatic man overboard systems.
There is no question that the systems exist and can be installed. However, the cruise industry refuses to do so. (Disney says that its cruise ships have the technology). But it’s clear that Carnival