Cruise Ship Crashed When It Suddenly Lost Power to Maneuver, 17 Injured

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Because these crew members are citizens of the Philippines (but see update below), HAL will claim that their surviving family members are subject to the provisions of the Philippines Overseas Employment Agreement (POEA) which applies to all Filipino seafarers and their families. The POEA provides very limited damages of only $50,000, and only $7,500 per child, when Filipino seafarers die while employed on cruise ships. Cruise lines like HAL have inserted arbitration clauses in their crew members’ employment contracts which prohibit ship employees and their families from filing lawsuits in the U.S. before a judge and jury. Meanwhile, HAL will continue to keep the circumstances of the accident secret and its substantial wrongdoing away from public scrutiny. A day or two before I got off the ship, I decided to make use of my balcony, which I had avoided because I thought the view would only depress me further. My suite did not look out on Central Park after all.

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On Friday, March 22, 2024, an explosion in the engine room of Holland America Line’s (HAL) cruise ship resulted in the release of steam which led to the death of two crew members. The catastrophic explosion, combined with a series of mistakes in responding to the accident, caused the deaths of HAL employees Joseph Terrado and Wawan Gusnawan. Ten years on, two changes in administration, and three separate investigative bodies later, the bereaved families and citizens continue to search for answers and accountability. The scale and reach of the movement have inevitably waned over the years, and the mobilizations are a far cry from the early aftermath of the disaster. Instead of trying to impress with my choice of T-shirts, I have decided to start wearing a robe, as one does at a resort property on land, with a proper spa and hammam. The response among my fellow cruisers has been ecstatic.

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But I naively thought that my meatball T-shirt would be more suitable for conversation-starting. “And how long have you been his ‘little meatball’? The aforementioned gangway opens up directly onto a thriving mall (I will soon learn it is imperiously called the “Royal Promenade”), presently filled with yapping passengers beneath a ceiling studded with balloons ready to drop. Crew members from every part of the global South, as well as a few Balkans, are shepherding us along while pressing flutes of champagne into our hands. By a humming Starbucks, I drink as many of these as I can and prepare to find my cabin.

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“One set of elevators and six rooms were impacted by some of the rain,” they said in an emailed statement. “Our team on board is managing the minor cleanup and elevator repairs.” Serenade of the Seas continued to Montevideo as planned, where it arrived Thursday. Royal Caribbean International’s Serenade of the Seas hit rough weather off the coast of South America on Tuesday, causing flooding in some parts of the ship. Cruise lines which perform investigations following accidents of this type keep their finding and conclusions secret.

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An unidentified mother of a high school student among 304 victims of sunken ferry Sewol in 2014 places a light stick on a life vest symbolizing the victims before a candle light vigil calling for impeached President Park Geun-hye to step down in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 7, 2017. The ship had set off from Passau, a German city on the Austrian border. A police statement said that as the ship was leaving a lock chamber further down the river, "the ship was suddenly no longer able to maneuver," and its right bow and left aft crashed into the lock walls. THERE ARE BARELY 48 HOURS LEFT to the cruise, and the Icon of the Seas’ passengers are salty. They understand that the chicken gyro at “Feta Mediterranean,” in the AquaDome Market, is the least problematic form of chicken on the ship. ” kids are singing outside the AquaDome, while their adult minders look on in disapproval, perhaps worried that Mr. Washy Washy is grooming them into a life of gayness.

There is a middle-aged African American couple who always seem to be asleep in each other’s arms, probably exhausted from the late capitalism they regularly encounter on land. There is far more diversity on this ship than I expected. Many couples are a testament to Loving v. Virginia, and there is a large group of folks whose T-shirts read MELANIN AT SEA / IT’S THE MELANIN FOR ME.

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” Mr. Rand cries out as we pass each other by the Thrill Island aqua park. You know, you really drank me under the table that night.” I laugh as we part ways, but my soul cries out, Please spend more time with me, Mr. and Mrs. Rand; I so need the company. This felt as groundbreaking as the first time I dared to address an American in his native tongue, as a child on a bus in Queens (“On my foot you are standing, Mister”). This is a large, multichandeliered room where I attended my safety training (I was shown how to put on a flotation vest; it is a very simple procedure). But the maître d’ politely refuses me entry in an English that seems to verge on another language.

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Posts from both passengers on board – including Larson – and users at home recapping new developments and reported “drama” a la reality TV have amassed millions of views. Larson also shared a video on TikTok taken by a friend that appeared to show the floor on Deck 12 covered in water. She said the captain informed passengers the ship was sailing through winds as high as 60 miles per hour. Royal Caribbean did not comment on the specifics of Larson’s experience. This preliminary information, the photo of the steam bellow (above), and a video of the location of the accident (below) were provided by cruise employees who wishes to remain anonymous.

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Instead, they look out onto another shopping mall. This mall is the one that’s called Central Park, perhaps in homage to the Olmsted-designed bit of greenery in the middle of my hometown. Although on land I would be delighted to own a suite with Central Park views, here I am deeply depressed. To sail on a ship and not wake up to a vast blue carpet of ocean? The explosion released steam into the engine room.

Because of the importance of the inaugural voyage of the world’s largest cruise liner, more than 200 Pinnacles are on this ship, a startling number, it seems. Mrs. Palo Alto takes out a golden badge that I have seen affixed over many a breast, which reads CROWN AND ANCHOR SOCIETY along with her name. “You should hear all the whining in Guest Services,” her husband tells me. Apparently, the Pinnacles who are not also Suites like us are all trying to use their status to get into Coastal Kitchen, our elite restaurant. Even a Pinnacle needs to be a Suite to access this level of corned-beef hash.

And Wallace was raised primarily in the Midwest and was a much larger, more American-looking meatball than I am. If he couldn’t talk to these people, how will I? What if I leave this ship without making any friends at all, despite my T-shirt? I am a social creature, and the prospect of seven days alone and apart is saddening.

The Sewol disaster came to be seen as an illustrative “case in point” of the various ills that had gone unchecked throughout South Korea’s rapid ascension to a global powerhouse. It was Cheonghaejin’s breach of regulations that had made Sewol the most perilous ship in operation in the country, but the shipping company was not the only party to blame. Neoliberal policies that dated back to Lee Myung-bak’s conservative administration – during which several regulations concerning the maintenance and inspection of ships had been relaxed – had set the scene for continued malpractice.

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The first network of its kind in the country, the center provides an important foundation for sustained solidarity among communities affected by mass fatalities like the Sewol disaster, and for support in instances of tragedies alike in the future. And this is one of the many ways in which the Sewol disaster’s legacy lives on in South Korea. While the Sewol movement continues to trudge along the path toward justice and change, it would be remiss to appraise the legacy of the event, and the affected communities’ campaign, based on prosecutions and court rulings alone. The 4.16 Memory Cultural Festival in front of Seoul City Hall on Apr. 13, 2024, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sewol disaster. In a short-answer poll taken by Hankyoreh newspaper in December 2014, the Sewol disaster was voted the second most important historical event in South Korea since the country’s independence, just 1.6 points short of the highest voted event, the Korean War.

This entire time, I had been living in the ship’s Disneyland, Surfside, the neighborhood full of screaming toddlers consuming milkshakes and candy. And as I leaned out over my balcony, I beheld a slight vista of the sea and surf that I thought I had been missing. The sea was frothy and infinite and blue-green beneath the span of a seagull’s wing. And though it had been trod hard by the world’s largest cruise ship, it remained. There is, however, a clientele for whom this cruise makes perfect sense. Cruise ships have become, for a certain kind of hardworking family, a form of subsidized child care.

Before the cruise is finished, I talk to Mr. Washy Washy, or Nielbert of the Philippines. He is a sweet, gentle man, and I thank him for the earworm of a song he has given me and for keeping us safe from the dreaded norovirus. “This is very important to me, getting people to wash their hands,” he tells me in his burger getup. He has dreams, as an artist and a performer, but they are limited in scope. One day he wants to dress up as a piece of bacon for the morning shift.