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Cruise News Review #21 : New Cancellations, Resumptions & Captain Takes Attacker Down
Jan 28, 2025
In my latest Tips For Travellers cruise news update and review, discover what the very latest is on cruises resuming out of the USA, which line has just cancelled more cruises out of USA ports, what other lines and countries have been given the go-ahead to start cruising again, what the scale of people testing positive trying to join cruises running in Europe has been, and how a cruise captain took down an attacker.
I am Gary Bembridge, and this is my latest Tips For Travellers cruise news review. The 21st in my update series, where I discuss the biggest and most significant news in cruising and unpick what it means for you and me as cruisers.
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in this cruise news review discover what
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the very latest is on cruises resuming
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out of the usa
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which line has just cancelled more
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cruises of the united states
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what other lines and countries have been
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given the go-ahead
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to start cruising again what the scale
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of people testing positive
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trying to join cruises running in europe
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has been and how a cruise captain
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took down an attacker i'm gary bembridge
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and this
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is my latest cruise news review the 21st
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in my update series where i discuss the
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biggest and most significant news in
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cruising
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and unpick what it means for you and me
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as cruisers first of all what is the
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latest out of the united states
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two big developments to discuss mike
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pence the u.s
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vice president and head of the
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coronavirus task force
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finally held the delayed meeting on how
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to enable the resumption of cruising of
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the u.s ports on the call were
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the senior leadership of the five
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biggest cruise groups selling out of the
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usa
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so that's carnival royal caribbean
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norwegian
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msc cruises and disney representatives
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from the cdc that's the center for
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disease control and some of the royal
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caribbean
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and norwegian healthy sailing panel now
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the latter
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is significant because they were the
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ones that put the 74 point proposal on
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how cruising
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could resume together now based on that
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meeting the vice president
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said importantly that he supports the
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goal of the resumption of cruisers out
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of the usa
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and was encouraged by the progress on
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developing new safety protocols
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now the meeting agreed the task force
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will review those
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and put together a recommendation to put
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to president trump
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before the 31st of october which is when
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the current
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no sell order expires and also
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noticeably i guess before the u.s
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election now one significant warning in
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the official white house report of the
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meeting is
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and i want to quote this is they
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cautioned that the cruise industry
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would have to backstop their venture to
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resume
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operations now i wasn't really sure what
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that meant so i went and checked
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and it looks to address a really big
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concern that the cdc and in fact other
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authorities have
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which is if there is an outbreak on
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ships there would be
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as in the run-up to the shutdown a drain
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on their resources
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and those are the health systems in the
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united states
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so it looks like the lines will be
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required to
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not unreasonably in my view have a plan
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to
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cover the costs and also have facilities
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able to
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cover and cope with any outbreak and not
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make demands
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on usa resources and facilities this
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really seems to be
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the key here now another big usa news
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carnival cruise has joined lines like
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royal caribbean
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virgin voyages and norwegian and they
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have now also cancelled cruises
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out of miami and pulled canalda right
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through to the end of november now
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previously
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they had cancelled all cruises from
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other usa ports to the end of december
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suggesting they may restart in november
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from those two ports they have also
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cancelled by the way cruises out of
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sydney australia
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right through to february 8 2021
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now so although there seems to be some
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signs the usa
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may be closer to resumption of cruising
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before the end of 2020 in some form
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there is little meaning for progress in
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some of the other big cruise port
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countries like the uk
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and spain both still advise strongly
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against cruising
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and there is no real news on those
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governments looking at all
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to approve resumption of cruises now
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both have fast-growing infection rates
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they're currently very focused on
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controlling these so it's kind of hard
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to see
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much energy in working on cruise
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resumption any time
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soon now not surprisingly the uk based
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lines like cunard saga pinot cruises
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have cancelled cruising to the end of
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2020 and in some cases right through
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to spring 2021. in one development clear
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uk and ireland
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and the uk-based cruise lines they
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issued a document
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with some protocols on the safe
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presumption of cruising to at least
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start the discussions but there's no
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news on next steps and what will happen
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and i don't think
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we will see much news there for some
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time
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so what has started cruising as you
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likely know
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hutu gruten and sea dream have been
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cruising in norway for some time
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mind shift and happy lloyd out of
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germany for german speaking travelers
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for some time and more recently mine
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chief
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six has been selling from crete in fact
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since
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september msc cruises is selling out of
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italy with italian
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greek and malta voyages that started
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with msc grandiosa
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and was followed by msc magnifica from
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middle
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of october costa which is part of the
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carnival group
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is sailing for italian customers now
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their third ship
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costa simarelda is joining elsia and
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diadema this month now these ships will
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all be ultimately based out of the
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italian port of savona
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and from november they're going to be
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selling even 40 night cruises
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going to places like the canary islands
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portugal and turkey
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aida which is also a carnival line
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catering for german-speaking guests
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they resume cruising out of italy from
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the 17th
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of october and they ultimately will have
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three ships sailing
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by the end of the year pornot have been
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selling out of france for french guests
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they've sailed more than
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50 cruises since july they've carried
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over 3 000 passengers
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they go around the french coast they go
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to iceland and the arctic
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paul gorgan line that's been selling in
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the french polynesia
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they've completed eight voyages so far
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successfully
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sea dream will start sailing the
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caribbean out of barbados towards the
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end of the year and they're
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moving the ships there in november there
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have been
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dream cruise line cruises out of taiwan
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and
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now royal caribbean's quantum of the
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seas and genting cruise lines world
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dream are going to start selling three
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and four night cruises
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out of singapore from november and into
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december for residents only of singapore
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these ships are going to operate with 50
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capacity and like other cruisers that
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have resumed they can have things like
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testing social distancing
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mark wearing all that kind of stuff so
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how exactly are the lines
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that our sailing been doing now other
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than the well-publicized
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outbreak on hooter gruden's ronald
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amundsen
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where 41 crew and 21 passengers were
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infected
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simply because they didn't follow their
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own protocols but the other cruisers
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resuming have had very good success
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due to really strictly enforcing the
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agreed protocols
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now these include testing of crew and
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passengers before boarding
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reduced ship capacity no self-service
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dining
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physical distancing through controls in
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numbers allowed to use
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pools fitness center theater shops
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elevators and numbers and dining venues
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masks being used indoors we're not
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seated cruise liner excursions to get
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off the ship
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changes to cleaning disinfecting and
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ventilation so really really
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strict protocols msc cruisers have
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confirmed
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that their pre-boarding testing to date
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which at the time of recording
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has been eight cruises and around 16 000
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passengers
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that just over hundred guests have been
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refused boarding due to
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i'm going to quote pierre francesco
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varga who's the executive chairman
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he said for testing positive traveling
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with someone who tested positive
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not having the correct medical paperwork
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or for infractions
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of our protocol now the latter refers no
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doubt to a family group
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that left a cruise line excursion to do
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their own thing
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and they were thrown off the cruise by
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msc
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now speaking to people who follow my
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channel and have actually cruised with
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msc in the past few weeks
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they confirmed that the protocols were
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rigorously
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enforced they're actually not only
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tested before
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they boarded but they were also tested
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at the end of the cruise to confirm that
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they were
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negative before they got off the ship
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now one little cover development
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has been the use of technology to assist
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with tracking
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and tracing on the ships now sailing in
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europe now msc cruisers
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have been using a wearable band and
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kostov introduced a version
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of the princess cruises medallion now
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these devices
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are issued to each guest and they
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collect data on where people
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are on the ship as well as enabling
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things like touch free payments
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opening of cabin doors on some ships
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remote ordering
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of things like drinks and food that kind
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of stuff now these disks are able to
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determine who was within six feet
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for more than 15 minutes according to
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the information issued by the various
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lines
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these are voluntary and the people can
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opt in but they're a key part of the
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track and trace
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one of the most entertaining pieces of
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cruise news in the last week was
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from captain kate mchugh now she's the
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captain of celebrity edge now that ship
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is currently acting as the mother ship
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for all the celebrity fleet that are
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moored out towards bahamas
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celebrity edge is the one that calls
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into miami they bring on supplies and
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crew and then channels them to
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the other ships now she received a
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comment about
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how could a woman be a cruise ship
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captain on tick tock
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and this is her tick tock video reply
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used
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with her thanks normally as i'm
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scrolling through comments and i see
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something like this i totally ignore it
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move on with my life but
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i think it's about high time that i
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address this because it's 20 20.
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and in this day and age i'm shocked
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that someone still doesn't know the
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difference between
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your and your
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so just a quick reference you're as in
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you are like you are sexist
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you're is something possessive it
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belongs to you like
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your ignorance but don't worry i'm here
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for you if you need any more
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clarification
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you can find me here in my captain's
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chair
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you can follow her in all social media
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you just look for captain kate
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mchugh hopefully you found this latest
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