A ship doctor employed on Oasis of the Seas allegedly commits gross malpractice on an ill passenger

It's been a long year for the cruise lines. Cruise ship fires, engine failures and other mishaps have dominated the travel news in 2013. We have written several hundreds of articles this year under our motto: everything the cruise lines don't want you to know.
2013 has been the year of the disabled cruise ship. First, we suffered through the 24-hour-a-day CNN coverage of the infamous Carnival Triumph poop cruise . Next came the Carnival Dream , which experienced propulsion problems followed by the Carnival Legend which also experienced propulsion issues attributable to poor maintenance. Then the Carnival Elation and the Carnival-owned P O Ventura joined travel trailer replacement parts the growing list of disabled/impaired cruise ships. It was only mid-March. Carnival's reputation was circling the drain!
The rest of the year saw more of the same. Problems with the Regent Seven Seas Voyager (propulsion), Carnival-owned Crown Princess (sewage), Carnival Ecstasy (propulsion), Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas (fire), NCL's Breakaway (loose nuts broken welds), Royal Caribbean-owned Pullmantur's Zenith (fire causing loss of power), Bimini SuperFast (propulsion), Celebrity Millennium (propulsion), Carnival-owned Sun Princess (propulsion), Carnival-owned Royal Princess (propulsion), Carnival-owned Noordam (fire), Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas (propulsion), Carnival-owned Dawn Princess (fire), MSC Magnifica (allision), Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas (hull repair), Saga Ruby (generator break down), and Celebrity's Constellation (propulsion).
travel trailer replacement parts So what's the criteria for inclusion on the top 10 list of outrageous cruise stories you may ask? If it makes you spit on the ground, shake your head and stomp your feet in disgust, the story has a chance to make the list. I start with the least outrageous (still pretty outrageous), at number 10, and end with the most outrageous travel trailer replacement parts at number 1.
In January, I wrote about a nasty tendency of the cruise industry: Stonewalling at Sea - Cruise Lines Continue to Cover Up Disappearances on the High Seas . This involved crew member Rebecca travel trailer replacement parts Coriam who disappeared from the Disney Wonder. Disney continues to refuse to provide meaningful information to the Coriam family about what happened to Rebecca, who was age 24 when she vanished. Although Disney's legal and security departments conducted investigations, Disney deflects questions about the mystery off to the flag state of the Bahamas. The Bahamas sent one police officer from Nassau travel trailer replacement parts (Officer Rolle, more about him below) to Los Angeles to conduct what everyone now agrees was a Micky Mouse investigation . The Bahamas refuses to provide information to the grieving Coriam family (photo right). Why? To avoid embarrassing Disney it seems. Watch the video .
The alleged cover-up by Disney and the Bahamas is, in my view, a chilling insight into the sinister nature of the cruise industry. Disney promises a fun filled family vacation, until a crime occurs or a person goes overboard. Then the floating Magic Kingdom becomes your worst nightmare in my opinion. Undaunted, the Coriam family created an international maritime victim's website to assist other families.
Yes, crime and armed robbery during cruise excursions happen, although the cruise lines and travel agents hate to talk about it. Robbery at gun point of cruise passengers travel trailer replacement parts of their Rolexes, iPhones, cameras and cash in the Caribbean and Mexico is increasing. travel trailer replacement parts The cruise lines and local tourism bureaus deny it, but they're usually lying . The most dangerous port of call? Nassau , without a doubt. travel trailer replacement parts We've written travel trailer replacement parts about murder, robbery, purse snatching, and rape of tourists, in addition to the usual drug solicitations. Read a compilation of crimes against tourists here . Read this local Bahamian man's view of crime in the islands, published just today. The local police in Nassau can't even keep the teenage girls sailing from Miami safe while walking back to the ships from Senor Frogs. And this place is in charge of flag state investigations into missing persons and ship fires regarding cruise ships flying the flag of the Bahamas?
This was a year where cruise executives' greed reached a zenith. And Royal Caribbean led the way. It took away cash tips direct-to-the-crew , ripped off a percentage of the tips , decreased pay of officers, staff crew , increased work, and fired over a 100 (mostly women) jobs from its corporate headquarters. When a popular YouTube video Screw the Crew revealed the tip-snatching scam, the cruise line banned the video. No one can abuse its crew better than Royal Caribbean, except maybe Carnival (discussed below).
In 2010, President Obama signed travel trailer replacement parts the Cruise Vessel Safety Security Act into law. It became effective in 2012. Cruise lines are required travel trailer replacement parts to install state of the art technology to respond immediately to persons travel trailer replacement parts going overboard. The technology exists . But except for one or perhaps two cruise lines, the cruise industry travel trailer replacement parts refuses to comply with the law . Passengers and crew, who could be quickly rescued, die because of the cruise industry's lawlessness. The non-compliance by the non-tax paying foreign flagged cruise industry also causes the U.S. Coast Guard to spend millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in unnecessarily-wide search and rescues which are rarely successful. Making matters worse is the cruise industry's substantial under-reporting of persons overboard . With a few million travel trailer replacement parts dollars spent lobbying Congress and federal agencies like the Coast Guard and the FBI, the cruise industry can do, or not do, pretty much anything it wants.
Two days ago, a Celebrity crew member was sentenced to 8 years in jail for child porn. Here's the full story . I'm tired of these perverts. In April a 15 year old boy was sexually assaulted on Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas . In May, a Royal Caribbean passenger was sentenced to jail for transporting thousands of child pornography photos and videos on the Monarch of the Seas from Port Canaveral. No it's not rare. In the same month, a woman on her 17th cruise encountered a man stalking her and masterbating . She says Royal Caribbean could of cared less. Earlier this year, I wrote about Sexual Perverts travel trailer replacement parts Pedophiles on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships . Some say that sexual crimes and weirdos are everywhere and such incidents are not limited to cruise ships. They're right. Don't believe the cruise lines for a second when they say their ships are super safe. Lesson to be learned: Watch your kids.
What do you do when you are a Rear-Admiral and ready to retire? Go into business with the cruise industry as a consultant. Write editorials praising the cruise lines . Leave glowing comments whenever travel trailer replacement parts CLIA CEO Christine Duffy writes an article praising the cruise lines. When cruise ships begin to ignite to the right and left of you, tell the public that cruising is the safest and most regulated form of transportation. Be sure to say that you and your family love to cruise all of the time. Use photos of yourself still wearing your uniform and medals. Use the official logo of your former travel trailer replacement parts federal agency you no longer work for. No one will know the difference. But whatever you do, don't admit that you work for CLIA. Don't explain travel trailer replacement parts that the Splendor and the Triumph cruise ships both caught on fire the day or two after the so-called rigorous Coast Guard inspections.
Don't worry that the Coast Guard will protest your unauthorized use of federal uniforms and official logos. That's because everyone at the Coast Guard will eventually travel trailer replacement parts end up working for the cruise lines too.
Carnival's outrageous conduct this year has not been limited to the Triumph poop cruise. It terminated its crew members' retirement program leaving many of its crew, particularly its loyal Filipinos, feeling betrayed. Its brands dipped into the crew's tips . The crew can't protest, because they will be fired and black-balled . Carnival has spent millions lobbying Congress for favorable legislation which insulates travel trailer replacement parts itself travel trailer replacement parts from legal and financial liability when crew members (as well as passengers) are seriously injured or killed on its cruise ships. Carnival's brands, like Princess, also over-work their crew and subject them to grueling hours . Carnival pays no U.S. taxes .
A ship doctor employed travel trailer replacement parts on Oasis of the Seas allegedly commits gross malpractice on an ill passenger leading to sepsis, multiple organ failure and cerebral hemorrhage . Think that the cruise line will be responsible for the doctors who are officers on the ship, wear cruise line uniforms and work in the cruise ship infirmaries? Think again. The cruise travel trailer replacement parts line and the doctor reportedly tell the patient that its impossible to arrange for a medevac helicopter from the Coast Guard. They neglect the poor woman and cruise on to Mexico. This case makes me sick.
We always knew that cruise lines played hide-the-ball games with the USPH inspectors, but haughty Silversea Cruises was particularly good at it. Crew members travel trailer replacement parts complained to us about the hide-the-food-from-the-inspectors games so we wrote to Silversea for an explanation. It ignored us. So we wrote about it . Silversea ignored us again. So we wrote about it again and posted photographs . Then we pitched the story to CNN which broadcast the disgusting story to a national audience in a well produced travel trailer replacement parts video .
A 33 year old waiter from India brazenly follows an 11 year old girl out of the dining room and into an elevator where he kisses the child and gropes her breast. The little girl tells her grandmother who immediately reports the crime to ship security. But Disney doesn't promptly report it to the local port police in Port Canaveral, or the Brevard County police or sheriff's office, or the FBI. Disney instead sails the ship, and the assailant and the crime scene, out of U.S. waters to Nassau, Bahamas. Even though travel trailer replacement parts the Bahamas is the flag state for the Disney travel trailer replacement parts Dream and is required to investigate crimes on Bahamian-flagged ships, the Bahamas declines to make an arrest or prosecute. Law enforcement travel trailer replacement parts and pros