Cruise Bruise Blog
April 16, 2009
April 16, 2009
More Changes At Cruise Bruise

As promised, major changes are underway at Cruise Bruise. Of the past 48 hours I have had my shoved in the back end of this website for 40 hours.

I really just needed to jump in with both feet. When I can't find a story that I know is on the site, I can only imagine how hard it is for you find things. Almost 1800 pages makes for alot of content. I found content today that was buried so deep, I didn't even know it was there.

If you were on the site today, and were checking out those cases you have bookmarked, you might have noticed that the page had nothing on it but a message that the page has been moved with a link to the new page. In Phase One, I am moving the "Missing" and the "Deaths". So, those are the pages that will be immediately affected.

As the traffic to the old pages lessens to a trickle, and most visitors are going to the new page, I will delete those old pages.

In the course of moving the pages, I am updating them, taking those "Missing" cases where a body was found, and moving them into "Deaths". They are getting the new navigational links menu on them, the new search box and most old links within a story are being pulled.

Images are being recategorized, so it is possible the odd page will have a dead link instead of an image within the story.

Also, any cases that took place from 1990 or earlier are being moved into the Archives. You will notice them removed from the bottom of the Missing and Death categories already.

There is so much to be done for each page, it is slow going. But, by the end of the year this site should be squeaky clean. I should have Missing and Deaths done by end of this month.

I have a new internal classification, Overboards. It will include everyone who went overboard, whether they were rescued, found dead, or are still missing today. It will also include those who disappeared when a ship sank. 

This is really important for me, because statistically it gathers all cases of people who left the ship while it was still at sea. I will be able to put my finger on any or all of them instantly. The only exception of course, are those that are in the Archives.

The "Deaths" internal classification will only included those who died aboard a ship or died at some point thereafter due to an incident that took place on the ship. That might include somebody who caught Norovirus aboard, but died from it after they got home or into a hospital days later.


April 16, 2009
Dawn Princess Passenger Gets Airlift

A male passenger, 76, complained of tingling in his leg while he was aboard the P & O Cruises' Dawn Princess. The symptoms lead to a diagnosis of a blood clot in the leg.
Dawn Princess was on the way to Brisbane, about 120 nautical miles (220 kilometers) east of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, near the costal community of Yeppoon.

A RACQ Capricorn Helicopter Rescue Service flew out to the Dawn Princess to provide an airlift to Rockhampton Hospital.