Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) stated that a crew member aboard the Norwegian Gem tested positive for COVID-19, according to a letter (below) sent by NCL to the crew members remaining on the cruise ship. Strikingly, NCL did not send the letter to crew members who were sent home and are entitled to benefits if they
Less than a week after NCL-owned Oceania Cruises’ M/S Regatta experienced a power loss while cruising near Hawaii, the Norwegian Gem’s propulsion system partially failed according to a New York news station ABC-7NY.
The NCL cruise ship was rerouted to Barbados where passengers were reportedly "erratically divided into groups" and flown back to Newark Airport
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Earlier this week, we reported that health officials banned the Norwegian Gem from calling on St. Maarten because a number of passengers were ill with a gastrointestinal illness. The NCL cruise ship then sailed on to Tortola where it called on the port there.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now officially reporting
Several passengers on the Norwegian Gem have contacted me, saying that health officials in St. Maartan have reportedly prohibited the NCL cruise ship from porting there.
The passengers are saying that there is a gastrointestinal outbreak reported on the Gem, thought to be norovirus.
I have not previously heard there was any type of outbreak
Earlier this week, a 10 year old child drowned in a crowded swimming pool on NCL’s Norwegian Gem.
It’s the seventh time that a child has drowned, or nearly-downed, on a cruise ship in just two years. The incidents occurred on cruise ships operated by all of the major cruise lines’ ships: Carnival, Disney
A number of news sources are reporting that yesterday the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an ill cruise passengerman from a cruise ship to a North Carolina hospital for treatment.
The ship doctor on the Norwegian Cruise ine’s Gem cruise ship notified the Coast Guard that a 38-year-old man was going into shock. The cruise ship was reportedly about 75 miles east of