Cruise Bruise Blog
January 21, 2009
January 21, 2009
Cruise Ship Balmoral Slammed By 50 Foot Wave
Fred Olsen cruise ship, the Balmoral was slammed by 60mph winds and 50-foot seas in the Bay of Biscay, with two passengers evacuated to a hospital in La Coruna, Spain for broken bones.

More details are expected when the cruise ends on January 27th in Dover, United Kingdom.

January 21, 2009
Mogosoaia Rammed Then Sinks 151 Passengers Dead
Cruise ship passengers sailing aboard the Romanian cruise ship Mogosoaia on the Danube River ended up in the water when a Bulgarian ship, the Peter Karaminchev tugging a convoy of loaded barges rammed them during poor viability, sinking their ship.

The 179 people aboard had almost no time to evacuate, with 151 remaining missing, according to Romania's official Agerpres press agency.
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January 21, 2009
MS Royal Pacific Cruise Ship Sinking 30 Passengers Dead
A Greek owned cruise ship, MS Royal Pacific and a fishing trawler collided in the Straits of Malacca with 530 aboard. Passengers had only a few minutes to get off the sinking ship in the middle of the night. The ship sank two hours after being rammed. Of the 530 aboard, 70 were injured and 30 died, some bodies never found.

Had the crew taken the time to evacuate passengers, instead of only saving themselves, perhaps lives would not have been lost. Instead, sleeping passengers, dazed and confused in the darkness had to make their way to the upper decks and towards the lifeboats after the ship began taking on water through the 6 foot diameter hole in her hull.

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