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Coast Guard has released video of the helicopter rescue https://www.businessinsider.com/video-footage-cruise-ship-passenger-rescued-after-falling-overboard-2022-11

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/man-rescued-carnival-cruise-gulf-of-mexico/index.html Updated article giving more details including the name of the vessel that spotted him.

According to CNN he was transferred from another vessel to a coast guard helicopter - https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/man-rescued-carnival-cruise-gulf-of-mexico/index.html so it sounds like an unnamed ship initially found & rescued him, to me it’s unclear how long he spent in the gulf, but it’s still remarkable that he survived the fall & that a vessel happened to find him.

The ship leaving by a certain time such as the case here where there was a deadline for transmitting the Panama Canal or as a PP posted due to tidal limitations at a port then yes, the ship will leave irrespective of whether the late passengers are on a ship’s tour or a private one. Likewise delivering documents & the like to shore. My understanding was that w/ ship sponsored tours, the ship will wait for late returning tours absent unusual circumstances (indeed that happened on one of my ship sponsored tours - our bus made it back an hour after scheduled departure & the ship was waiting for us.) The difference in this case would be on what happens after the ship leaves - I assume (but don’t know) that HAL is paying the Marriott Hotel bill of those 41 people & will arrange & pay for their transit to rejoin the ship as well as dealing w/ the paperwork involved. My understanding is those on a private tour would be on their own & have to pay their own expenses to get back to the ship. I’m not a terribly experienced cruiser, though, & would be interested to know whether I’m correct in my assumptions about the differences in handling ship v. private tours in these situations.

I find that if I dance as I listen to music I can log a lot of steps - to break up walking in your cabin maybe try some dancing too. 🙂

Yes, from what I’ve read it seems to be ultimately the Captains call on each specific sailing. My sense is that it’ll be much like Noro always has been, when there’s an outbreak onboard sanitation protocols are increased/imposed, w/ Noro’s fomite transmission that’s things like increased surface/hand sanitizing. W/ Covid I guess for the near future it’ll be when levels reach a certain number transmission reduction protocols, including masks to protect people from airborne transmission, will happen.

Thank you for posting this, it’s helpful to someone such as myself researching various lines longer cruises. It’s interesting that the cc hold for a 24 day cruise is $1440 pp compared to the cc hold of $900 pp for a 30 day cruise. I am curious if any have had the hold on unspent funds take as long as 30 days to be removed.

I assume you’re currently on AA1960 @ 7a.m. from SFO to CLT - here’s how it’s performed lately https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/aa1960 it usually arrives half an hour early w/ an on time departure, even the couple of days where it was almost an hour late departing, it still made it to CLT in time to make your connection to FCO. Likewise AA720 CLT to FCO looks like it’s been departing pretty much on time & arriving early morning in Rome https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/aa720 Routing through Dallas on AA1198 leaving SFO at 6 a.m., if there’s a problem w/ that flight in SFO you could take AA2598 at 8 a.m. - if there’s room, and still make it to Dallas in time to catch AA240 to FCO. At this late date I personally wouldn’t mess w/ changing flights unless I could leave Oct. 1 or Sept. 30. I’ve stayed at the airport Hilton in Rome & walked back to the terminal to catch my cruise line transfer the next day & found it to be very convenient, I also saw lots of folks arriving that day. Good luck.