Cruise Bruise Blog
May 7, 2009
May 7, 2009
Costa Concordia Passenger Contracts Flesh-Eating Disease Aboard - Dies
While the mainstream media and the governments involved have protected the name of the ship and cruise line involved in this case, a Cruise Bruise investigation was able to gather this information and more that shows this passenger did not received the correct treatment for this disease.
The number one factor in survival is how fast the diagnosis is obtained and how quickly antibiotics are given intravenously, not with injections of antibiotics into the skin, as was done in this case. You can read the story here
May 7, 2009
Couple Overboard Plot Thickens With Police Murder Investigation
Nityananda Shetty’s mother Girijamma Shetty has filed a complaint with the Gangolly police station, expressing the suspicion that her grand-daughter might have played a role in her son's death.
Girijamma Shetty says that she suspects her wealthy son was murdered for financial gain while aboard the Star Cruises' SuperStar Virgo voyage.
Nityananda Shetty’s body was found washed ashore about two weeks later, about 200 kms away from the spot where the incident too place.
The elder Mrs. Shetty outlines her reasoning for suspecting her son was murdered in our updated case details here
May 7, 2009
University Student's Paper Way Off Base On Great Lakes Cruising
A University of Wisconsin-Superior student, Patrice Stalvig's research project comes to a very dangerous conclusion, that American and Canadian policy on cruise ships sailing the Great Lakes is "too strict", as he takes a look at some of the challenges of cruise ships on the Great Lakes.
Stalvig's reasoning for the categorization of cruising on the Great Lakes as "too strict", is based on the cost of cruising the Great Lakes due to U.S. regulations that require cruise ship sailing between two American ports, the ship has to be built in the U.S., crewed by Americans and the line has to be owned by a majority of U.S stock holders. This, Stalvig reasons means they are paying , higher wages, higher material costs and he concludes this results in higher ticket costs.
What Stalvig does not consider is the problems the U.S. government would have enforcing laws that protect Americans at sea are quite frequently unenforceable when the ship is registered in a foreign nation. This is not a problem we need to deal with on the Great Lakes. We need cruise lines and ships there that can be held accountable.
