019 Haiti Earthquake Cruise Show
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2010
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
Stewart the Cruise Guy joins us to talk about Haiti and post earthquake.
Scott Lara talks to us about his trip to Haiti.
We revisit passenger Laura talking with us about her recent sailing on the Carnival Dream.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more. |
| 0:06.8 | Subscribe to our newsletter and weekly radio show at CruiseRadio.com. |
| 0:11.5 | From the Cruise One Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, this is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:16.3 | Book your next travel at Cruise1.com. |
| 0:19.1 | Hi, I'm Matt Baskford. |
| 0:20.3 | And I'm Doug Parker. Today's show is |
| 0:22.0 | all about Haiti in the wake of the 7.0 magnitude catastrophic earthquake. We're going to talk |
| 0:27.4 | to health care lobbyist Scott Laura about his recent trip to Haiti in the current situation going |
| 0:32.2 | on there now. Author Micah Berman shares his dirty, detailed stories about working on a cruise ship, which are all in his |
| 0:38.5 | new book, Permanent Passenger. |
| 0:40.2 | But first, as you know, Labadee in Haiti is a cruise port stop for a Royal Caribbean and Celebrity |
| 0:45.1 | Cruises. |
| 0:45.8 | Stuart the Cruise Guide joins us. |
| 0:47.3 | He is a contributor to ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, and MSNBC. |
| 0:51.5 | You can find him at Cruiseguide.com. |
| 0:53.5 | Stuart, how was Labity affected by the earthquake? |
| 0:56.3 | Good news is that, according to Royal Caribbean, that their private beach area, which they've |
| 1:02.2 | recently just put in $55 million in enhancements, was untouched. |
| 1:06.7 | So everybody there is safe and sound, and they're actually sending an engineering team down there tomorrow to reassess their brand new pier that was just built. |
| 1:17.1 | How long has there been a relationship between the cruise lines and Haiti? |
| 1:20.7 | Well, Royal Caribbean has had there, they were actually the first to have the private island, or in this case it's really a private |
| 1:27.6 | beach, dating back to 1968. |
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