Two Crew Members Killed in Engine Room Accident on Holland America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise Ship

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Wallace’s stateroom, at least, had a view of the ocean, a kind of cheap eternity. Usually the essayist commissioned to take to the sea is in their first or second flush of youth and is ready to sharpen their wit against the hull of the offending vessel. I am 51, old and tired, having seen much of the world as a former travel journalist, and mostly what I do in both life and prose is shrug while muttering to my imaginary dachshund, “This too shall pass.” But the Icon of the Seas will not countenance a shrug. The Icon of the Seas is the Linda Loman of cruise ships, exclaiming that attention must be paid.

Passenger video shows flooding on Royal Caribbean's world cruise in rough weather

The incident occurred late on Friday in the northern Austrian town of Aschach an der Donau, local police said Saturday. Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville. I usually tan very evenly, but something about the discombobulation of life at sea makes me forget the regular application of sunscreen. As I walk down the streets of Charlotte Amalie in my fluorescent Icon of the Seas cap, an old Rastafarian stares me down.

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The bridge reportedly ordered an alarm and shut down the ventilation to the space before it was evacuated. The two crew members, who were not equipped with Emergency Escape Breathing Devices (EEBD), were unable to manually open the closed, heavy hydraulic doors. They apparently suffocated due to the lack of oxygen and hot steam (180 degrees Celsius/ over 350 Fahrenheit). The hot steam and lack of oxygen which overwhelmed them.

'Things flying all over the place': Royal Caribbean cruise ship rocked by rough weather

As evidence of gross negligence, dereliction of duty, and breach of regulations piled up, citizens took to the streets out of grief and rage. In 2019, a cruise boat hit and sank a smaller boat near Budapest, Hungary, killing 25 South Korean tourists and two crew members. The captain was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the accident. Citing the container ship's recovered data recorder, officials said the power went out on the Dali for just one minute and three seconds as it approached the bridge, Sky News reported, but that was enough for the collision to become unavoidable.

Their bodies were located near the closed water tight doors. Among the many things that Sewol brought to light is the sheer banality of risk behind exceptional catastrophes. It was the reckoning of a shared, omnipresent risk that brought hundreds of thousands to the streets in 2014. If we are to take the grief of the campaigning families, too, as in some part ours – or to use Chang-hyun’s mother’s words, “homework to be brought to completion” collectively – perhaps the subsequent anniversaries of Sewol may look a bit different than today.

How the Sewol Sinking Changed South Korea

But I’m thinking along a different line of attack as I spear my last pallid slice of melon. For my streaming limited series, a Pinnacle would have to get killed by either an outright peasant or a Suite without an ocean view. “We’re just baby Pinnacles,” Mrs. Palo Alto tells me, describing a kind of internal class struggle among the Pinnacle elite for ever higher status. MY FIRST GLIMPSE of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, from the window of an approaching Miami cab, brings on a feeling of vertigo, nausea, amazement, and distress.

Two Crew Members Killed in Engine Room Accident on Holland America Line’s Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise Ship

I shut my eyes in defense, as my brain tells my optic nerve to try again. Even for Larson, who has been on more than 100 cruises with the line, it was a new sensation. “I've seen a lot of rocking, but never tilting just one side for so long,” she said. Later, as she walked down the stairs at the front of the ship, she heard what sounded like rain inside the elevator shafts. “It was just really tilted, so it was hard to walk,” she told USA TODAY.

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I show my blue Suite Sky SeaPass Card (more on this later, much more) to a smiling woman from the Philippines, and she tells me to go “aft.” Which is where, now? As someone who has rarely sailed on a vessel grander than the Staten Island Ferry, I am confused. It turns out that the aft is the stern of the ship, or, for those of us who don’t know what a stern or an aft are, its ass. The nose of the ship, responsible for separating the waves before it, is also called a bow, and is marked for passengers as the FWD, or forward. The part of the contemporary sailing vessel where the malls are clustered is called the midship.

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” I say, already starting to catch on to the ship’s class system. I am wearing a DADDY’S LITTLE MEATBALL T-shirt, I want to say to him. I also get reserved seating for a performance of The Wizard of Oz, an ice-skating tribute to the periodic table, and similar provocations. The very color of my Suite Sky SeaPass Card, an oceanic blue as opposed to the cloying royal purple of the standard non-Suite passenger, will soon provoke envy and admiration. But as high as my status may be, there are those on board who have much higher status still, and I will soon learn to bow before them.

HAL will subsequently claim that its investigation is privileged and protected from disclosure to the public. HAL will never volunteer any information about what happened two days ago resulting in the deaths of Mr. Terrado and Mr. Gusnawan. The company said the ship remained in port while it works with authorities to facilitate the process. Spanish state news agency Efe and other media said some 1,500 passengers were on board the MSC Armony hoping to continue the cruise to Croatia. The ship was later docked at the quay wall and emergency services were notified. The ship was able to continue its journey toward Linz, Austria.

I could not understand English well enough then to catch the nuances of that seafaring program, but I knew that there were differences in the status of the passengers, and that sometimes those differences made them sad. Still, this ship, this plenty—every few steps, there are complimentary nachos or milkshakes or gyros on offer—was the fatty fuel of my childhood dreams. I put on my meatball T-shirt and head for one of the dining rooms to get a late lunch. In the elevator, I stick out my chest for all to read the funny legend upon it, but soon I realize that despite its burnished tricolor letters, no one takes note.

The emergency manual hand pump reportedly did not work. It has been mobilizations like these that have kept the Sewol movement alive throughout the past ten years. There is a far-reaching network of citizens across the country, each doing their small part. Together, that amounts to an impressive bottom-up solidarity. Efforts to mark this anniversary with meaning, and provide the movement momentum again, have been well underway for months.