";s:4:"text";s:4231:" "His death is not related to COVID-19, but out of respect for his family, we will not be providing additional details. Norwegian cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen moored in Tromso, Norway, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. They have no one supporting us. According to the Greek media, a search was underway by the ship and the Coast Guard in an attempt to locate the missing crew member.
The Romanian Consulate in Miami did not return a request for comment on Sunday.Crew members on the Navigator of the Seas say the hotline is not enough as some colleagues have begun to lose hope that they will be sent home.
“This company needs to understand we are not boxes of food that can be moved around.”One was a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman on the Regal Princess who jumped overboard and did not survive, according to Princess Cruise Line spokesperson Negin Kamali. At least 100,000 cruise ship staff remain stuck at sea more than two months after coronavirus crippled the industry -- with many not even getting paid, according to a report. "Money is literally no object.
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Royal Caribbean Cruises spokesperson Jonathon Fishman said the crew member died of “natural causes.” Fishman did not respond to requests for comment about whether the crew member had been tested for COVID-19. Executives at individual companies, however, are far more direct. Crew members on a stranded luxury cruise ship have gone on a hunger strike and a worker on another ship jumped to her death as luxury line … And according to the CDC, it has The Cruise Lines International Association indicated its members are doing their best to abide by CDC rules and to repatriate crews. "We are doing everything we possibly can for our crew, and we are frustrated as they are about the difficulty in getting them home," Frank Del Rio, CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line, told USA TODAY. Without explanation, Royal Caribbean International CEO Michael Bayley announced in a letter obtained by the Herald that they will be moved again to the Enchantment of the Seas ship and return home May 21.The company told crew members for weeks that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had banned crew repatriation flights, before Bayley reversed course and agreed to sign the required CDC agreements to send crew members home on private transportation. To order copies of Shortly before that, a crew member on the Vasco da Gamma cruise ship reportedly jumped from deck 12 of the ship and landed on a cargo container located on the pier of the Tilbury Docks in the U.K. Two crew members have died in separate incidents unrelated to coronavirus, as On Sunday, a crew member who had been on Princess Cruises' Regal Princess died while the ship was outside the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the cruise line confirmed in a statement shared with USA TODAY by spokesperson Alivia Owyoung-Ender.The deceased, a 39-year-old female crew member and Ukrainian citizen, jumped overboard and did not survive the impact. Because cruise ships employ large numbers of foreign nationals, operators must comply with dozens of sets of rules for countries ranging from Peru to the Philippines.Cruise ship operators say they are anxious to get crews home.
A 22-year-old passenger sailing on a Princess Cruises ship intentionally jumped from the vessel Monday and is believed to have died in the waters below.. A young crew member went overboard from the cruise ship Jewel of the Seas on April 30, while the vessel was off the coast of Greece.