You will read absolutely no warnings about the dangers of the FlowRider on Royal Caribbean's website

One of the most dangerous activities you can participate in during a cruise is found only on Royal Caribbean's cruise ships. It's the FlowRider , a simulated surfing and water-boarding activity where a thin stream of water shoots up a sloped platform to create a wave-like flow of water.
A considerable number of cruise passengers have been seriously injured on the Flowrider, which Royal Caribbean helped design and install on five of its cruise ships: one FlowRider on each of the Freedom class cruise ships ( Freedom of the Seas , Independence of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas ) and two on each of the Oasis class ships ( Allure travel inn grimsby of he Seas and Oasis of the Seas ).
You will read absolutely no warnings about the dangers of the FlowRider on Royal Caribbean's website. Nor will you see any warnings whatsoever posted around the FlowRiders on any of the cruise ships. travel inn grimsby Even after a passenger was killed when he fell while trying to surf, the cruise line decided not to warn cruise passengers that the activity travel inn grimsby is, well, deadly .
The cruise line's travel inn grimsby approach to the problem has been to require all passengers who participate in the activity to sign an electronic liability waiver. The process travel inn grimsby of scrolling through the electronic keypad in a long line is so quick that it's clear that no one reads the waiver. Moreover, the waiver is legally invalid. travel inn grimsby Earlier this year, the Eleventh Circuit Court of appeal struck down the Royal Caribbean waiver travel inn grimsby finding that it violated federal law (46 U.S.C 30509) which prohibits contract provisions that attempt to absolve a shipping company from its own negligence.
In a recent message thread on the website of the popular on-line cruise community travel inn grimsby Cruise travel inn grimsby Critic , there is discussion that the cruise line is working on creating a new and improved liability waiver - apparently for the purpose of trying to navigate around the statutory prohibition found in 46 U.S.C. 30509.
If that's true, the new waiver will be struck down too. It's too bad that the cruise line won't post warning signs on its website or on the seven FlowRiders on its cruise ships. There are lots of people who don't understand just how dangerous this activity is.
If Royal Caribbean is going to be the only cruise line promoting travel inn grimsby this dangerous activity, it needs to spend less time drafting travel inn grimsby illegal waivers and more time drafting effective warnings before the next unsuspecting passenger steps on a surf board and breaks his neck.
While it does seem that it would make sense for them to make the dangers more well known, it's also not their fault that people don't take the time to read the waiver and find out exactly what they're agreeing to and what risks are involved. I don't put my signature on anything without knowing exactly what I'm signing. If people don't know because they couldn't be bothered to read the waiver, they're to blame for their own ignorance.
Thanks for this article. travel inn grimsby We will be going on our first Royal Caribbean cruise next year on the Allure and were considering this activity as they hype it up to be safe and fun, but I always had my doubts anyway. Now we will definitely reconsider, or at least not try to stand up on it at all!
Won't stop me from using the Flowrider on my next RC cruise. It's one of the more fun activities on the ship. True that they should probably travel inn grimsby put more effort into letting people know about the hazards, but after my first wipeout I knew full well that, if I hit the back pad at the wrong angle, I could be seriously injured. But there are a lot of things that are dangerous, if you're not careful, or just unlucky.
Anyways, it's far from the most dangerous activity I embarked upon on that vacation - climbing Dunn's River Falls, I kept thinking "Not in a million years would this be possible in Canada. Nobody would consider taking on the liability, and no insurance company would go near it."
As someone who has been Flowboarding for many years it is appalling to me that some stupid lawyer thinks they know everything about a particular sport, even when he has never even participated in it a single day of his pathetic life. Due to the lawsuit from an incident that involved someone on the Flowrider, Royal Caribbean has banned almost all tricks from being performed on the wave simulation machine, which in effect renders it completely useless for its intended purpose. Furthur more there are inherent dangers in every sport and activity that you do in life, You could just as easily die walking out your front door as you can Flowboarding. I ride at my local Flowrider at least 4 hours a week and do many tricks that may seem to some as borderline travel inn grimsby suicidally dangerous, but the fact still remains that I have never been seriously injured even when involved in a major wipeout, and the flowrider is still one of the safest sports in the world. Now I do agree that Royal Caribbean could do a better job of informing people that the Flowrider can potentially cause injury, but if anybody is dumb enough to not realize that riding a sheet of water moving at a rate of 30,000 gallons of per minute, on a board, while attempting to do a trick could cause some harm, then that should be there own fault for being that stupid! Now that there is a ban on almost all tricks aboard Royal Caribbeans Flowriders it is really only punishing experienced and professional riders like myself who just want to enjoy the sport!
I took on the liberty of the sea in 2008, while on the cruise I had a go of the flow rider and had a very bad fall, I certain I nearly broke my neck, I could lift my head off the pillow for over a week after the incident.
It seems amazing that people claim to read waivers and refuse to sign them. The assumption that an activity is safe because the cruise line provides it seems to be common. I admit I sign waivers without reading them but some where in some point in time people and companies have stopped taking responsibility for their actions especially boat owners who don't watch where the hell they are going I have seen so many near misses from hoon skippers.
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