SHILLING: Eight passengers stranded on African island after Norwegian cruise ship left without them end up rescuing 80 year old woman also abandoned by Norwegian

imaqtpie, 1 month ago

It doesn’t say anything about a coma? It says

She had “medically disembarked” from the cruise to seek local treatment on that day, Norwegian said.

There is no information on her medical condition. If an adult wishes to disembark from the cruise, what do you expect them to do? They can’t legally prevent her from doing so.

And the other people scheduled a private tour unaffiliated with the cruise when they knew they had to be back on the ship by 3pm. They probably figured that the ship would wait for them and inconvenience everybody else if necessary. They got what was coming to them.

DrBob, 1 month ago

This is a little less dickish than it sounds. They were late returning from a private event, and so the ship left their passports with the port agent. If the ship misses the tide it’s a 12 hour delay for everyone and probably means missing another port of call. No assholes here

Mycatiskai, 1 month ago

There is a reason you only go on excursions provided by the cruise ship company. You pay more but they won’t leave you behind, if you take a private tour you run the risk of not getting back on time and being left behind.