What an awful way to die, abandoned and alone.
This was clearly negligence by the crew, both leaving an 80 year old woman alone, and then not do a head count before leaving.
I know enough about cruise ships to know this smells fishy.
She probably died on board and they left her on an island as a cover up. They have been known to do weird stuff such as storing bodies in freezers along with food. There’s weird protocol and much legal work. Scandalous. Don’t be old on a cruise ship, fo sho
In this case a headcount before leaving could kinda have been feasible as the ship only had 120 passengers - often it isn’t simply because modern cruise ships tend to be massive and have way too many passengers to keep track of - but from what I could understand they had an electronic system in place and for some reason she either wasn’t marked as having left, or had somehow been mistakingly marked as returned.
She was noticed as missing when they did do a “headcount”, during the evening dinner.
This actually seems to happen semi-regularly in Queensland. This is certainly not the first time.
You’d think they’d have some kind of infallible double redundancy tag out system.
One wonders how often this might happen and go unreported.
Edit: oof. Sorry, I just read the article. Looks like she didn’t die because she was left behind. Rather, she fell off a cliff and died which is why she didn’t board the boat prior to it’s departure. Still. Wouldn’t hurt to have some awareness of how many passengers had re-boarded the boat.
Only been on one cruise years ago but pretty sure the fine print you agree to says, if your not back on the ship when it’s time to leave port you’re on your own finding your way onward.
What an awful way to die, abandoned and alone.
This was clearly negligence by the crew, both leaving an 80 year old woman alone, and then not do a head count before leaving.
Are you kidding this is in my top 3 ways to die! 80, on a tropical island, and with nobody near me!
The other two ways involve explosive vests.
I know enough about cruise ships to know this smells fishy.
She probably died on board and they left her on an island as a cover up. They have been known to do weird stuff such as storing bodies in freezers along with food. There’s weird protocol and much legal work. Scandalous. Don’t be old on a cruise ship, fo sho
In this case a headcount before leaving could kinda have been feasible as the ship only had 120 passengers - often it isn’t simply because modern cruise ships tend to be massive and have way too many passengers to keep track of - but from what I could understand they had an electronic system in place and for some reason she either wasn’t marked as having left, or had somehow been mistakingly marked as returned.
She was noticed as missing when they did do a “headcount”, during the evening dinner.
This actually seems to happen semi-regularly in Queensland. This is certainly not the first time.
You’d think they’d have some kind of infallible double redundancy tag out system.
One wonders how often this might happen and go unreported.
Edit: oof. Sorry, I just read the article. Looks like she didn’t die because she was left behind. Rather, she fell off a cliff and died which is why she didn’t board the boat prior to it’s departure. Still. Wouldn’t hurt to have some awareness of how many passengers had re-boarded the boat.
Only been on one cruise years ago but pretty sure the fine print you agree to says, if your not back on the ship when it’s time to leave port you’re on your own finding your way onward.
Yeah, but fine print isn’t always binding.
You can leave someone in Port if they were dawdling back from the bar.
You can’t leave an 80 year old woman alone on an uninhabited island in the heat with no water.
It’s prob should have a level of care from the cruise company when it’s to a remote or uninhabited island VRs a tourist city.
True.
The logistics of handling that many people makes it near impossible to manage. But I get what you’re saying.
I think you should go read it again. It isn’t really clear when she died.