She appeared to have fallen from a cliff or slope
This sounds a bit weird but I hope she died from the fall rather than from having been left there …
That seems the most likely:
“Mum felt ill on the hill climb. She was asked to head down, unescorted. Then the ship left”
She fell on the trail headed back. Sending an 80 year old, who felt ill, back unescorted was a failure in duty and comprehension.
In fact, take the age out of it, sending anyone who feels ill back unescorted is a failure in duty and comprehension.
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.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.
The logistics of handling that many people makes it near impossible to manage. But I get what you’re saying.
True.
I think you should go read it again. It isn’t really clear when she died.
Read this as 80 passengers first and was a tad shocked
80-year-old passenger or 80 year-old passengers?
Very different news story
I wasn’t aware marooning was still a practice on cruise ships
Probably some kind of agitator.
Aww, these poor cruise-faring souls only wanted to pollute and consume a little, but they died instead. Tragic.
An 80 year old woman was abandoned on a hiking trail and fell off the trail to her death. What the fuck is wrong with you
Extremism. Somehow people like that think they’re better when they spread such callous indifference.
Like I get it, cruises aren’t good for the environment at all but acting like someone deserved to die for it? They want to save humanity without bothering to preserve humanity.
I hope you don’t crash your car or choke on a bone.
They can’t, this person obvious doesn’t pollute or consume whatsoever. They have no existence at all.
Ignore the internet posting they do, theirs isn’t in any way related to generation of electricity or anything that could possibly negatively harm the earth in any way.
