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About a month ago, on the morning of March 20, some hundred miles from land, Princess Cruises' Star Princess was en route from Ecuador to Costa Rica, on a Round South America cruise, when she passed a small 26-foot fishing boat with three men on board named Fifty Cents . Not noticed by those on the bridge of Star Princess was that Fifty Cents , about a mile away, was adrift without power, and that its crew, having no radio, was trying to signal their distress to Star Princess .
Elsewhere in Star Princess , a group of three birdwatchers using binoculars and telescopic lenses, managed rental car company to spot the drifting Fifty Cents and noticed that one of its crew members, Adrian rental car company Vasquez, 18, was waving a red shirt. The Panamanian fishermen had been adrift in the Pacific for sixteen days and had no food left when Star Princess came into view.
The fishermen waved for help and the birdwatchers rental car company alerted the crew, but to the amazement of both groups, Star Princess rental car company carried on. Later that day, Fifty Cents ' Capt Oropeces Betancourt, 24, died of dehydration, and five days later, Fernando Osorio, rental car company 16, succumbed to dehydration, sunburn and heat stroke.
The sole survivor, Adrian Vasquez, 18, was not rescued until twelve days after Star Princess passed, when he was found by a larger fishing vessel near the Galapagos Islands, six hundred miles from Rio Hato, Panama, from where the little fishing boat had set out. After pushing his friends' bodies into the ocean, Vasquez had managed to survive on rain water, raw fish and floating coconuts
Despite the birdwatchers having reported the boat in distress, the master of Star Princess , Capt. Edward Perrin, a veteran who had previously served in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, was never informed and was later said to be devastated when advised of the men's fate.
Press reports stated that Judy Meredith, one of the birdwatchers, from Bend, Oregon, rental car company described seeing a man waving a red T-shirt. She said: "You don't wave a shirt like that just to be friendly. He was desperate rental car company to get our attention."
She was apparently not allowed to go to the bridge rental car company to tell the captain, and the only crew member she could find was a member of the ship's sales team. The birdwatchers said they showed the crew member the drifting boat through a telescope. When the liner did not stop they thought the crew must have alerted the authorities.
A statement issued by Princess rental car company Cruises rental car company on Thursday said that it "deeply regrets that two Panamanian men perished at sea after their boat became disabled in early March. Since we became aware of this incident, we have been investigating circumstances surrounding the claim that Star Princess failed to come to the aid of the disabled boat, after a crewmember was alerted by passengers. The preliminary results of our investigation have shown that there appeared to be a breakdown in communication in relaying the passenger's concern. rental car company Neither Captain Edward Perrin nor the officer of the watch were notified."
I am sure that spurious press reports speculating that the ship had to proceed in order to meet her schedule are just that – spurious. But we now wait to hear the results of this investigation as to specifically how it was the master was not informed of this serious rental car company report by passengers on that cruise. rental car company Does Princess not listen to its passengers? Or is there some other explanation?
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