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Tag: cruises passenger protection

  • Saturday, August 2nd 2014 - 08:06 UTC

    US Senate looks into passenger protection on Caribbean cruise ships

    At the hearing, Senator Rockefeller said the horror stories pointed to a lack of oversight and accountability for passenger safety in the cruise industry

    There could have been few places where the old adage “worse things happen at sea” seemed more appropriate than a recent US Senate Commerce Committee hearing in which members were regaled with Caribbean cruise ship passengers’ horror stories of everything from rape and violence to seeping sewage and hallways lined with bags of feces.