An 83-year-old passenger aboard the Norwegian Getaway died while snorkeling during the ship’s Bahamas stop on May 3 after being found unresponsive in the water at Great Stirrup Cay.
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The Caymans is the latest island in the Caribbean where the cruise lines are beating their drums for a new multi-million dollar pier to be built for them in order to expand the business of cruising.
I saw this same scenario unfold in Falmouth, Jamaica where Royal Caribbean ram-roded a plan to dredge ancient coral
Several newspapers are reporting that a cruise ship passenger died during a snorkeling excursion while visiting the Caribbean island of Dominica.
The incident involves a cruise passenger from Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas cruise ship. The local police say that Jim Caves of Riverside, California, was aboard Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas cruise ship
The Seattle Times reports that the husband of a cruise passenger filed a wrongful death suit Holland America Line in Seattle after his wife was killed during a cruise sponsored snorkeling excursion.
The incident occurred when passenger Diana Mechling had just entered the water from the excursion boat off the coast of Belize to start snorkeling. The operator put the vessel in
The Royal Gazette newspaper in Bermuda reports that a 79 year old cruise passenger died on Sunday while snorkeling about one mile offshore off the West End.
The newspaper indicates that man was a US citizen from Carnival’s Fantasy cruise ship, and part of a tour group. He was found in a “unresponsive state” in the water.
A member of Carnival
7 New Belize reports that a cruise passenger died yesterday while snorkeling in Belize’s waters. American tourist, Diana Mechling, age 59, was reportedly snorkeling at Goff’s Caye in Belize when she was struck by the propeller of a catamaran.
The newspaper in Belize indicates that Ms. Mechling was treated at Belize Medical Associates where she died. According to a representative of Holland America’s agent in Belize, Cruise
The Baltimore Sun reports on the death of a 71 year old passenger from Reisterstown, Maryland , Carol Olson, during a snorkeling excursion in the Bahamas. Ms. Olson was a passenger on Carnival’s Pride cruise ship and booked the excursion from the cruise line.
Other passengers described having problems with the current. The excursion was described as poorly managed with
