A 10-year-old boy from Singapore reportedly died after being found “unresponsive” in a cruise ship swimming pool yesterday according to several Asian newspapers.
Channel News Asia (CNA) reported that the child was sailing with his mother on the Genting Dream
operated by Dream Cruises.
Bernama stated that a “pool attendant” failed to rescue the boy


Today, I received emails from passengers, who disembarked from the Anthem of the Seas, that there had been a drowning on the Royal Caribbean ship yesterday. One guest stated:
Last Wednesday, I received a number of messages from cruise passengers about an incident on board Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas regarding what was described as a woman (passenger) who either suffered a heart attack or nearly drowned in one of the ship’s swimming pools.
In the last nine months, four children age 6 or younger have drowned or nearly drowned on cruise ships.
News broke tonight that two small children were pulled from a pool from NCL’s Norwegian Breakaway as the cruise ship was sailing from New York to the Bahamas this morning.
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