048 Fighting Norovirus

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Doug Parker

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2010

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

One of our favorite guests on Cruise Radio, Geoff Edwards, joins us talking about his battle with norovirus on a recent cruise, gives us a first hand take at it, and talks about his latest book.

Faraz Qureshi, President of the social media cruise site MeetOnCruise talks about the Meet On Cruise. If you're a social media person, this is for you. Such a cool concept!

Stewart Chiron joins us with his weekly commentary.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more.
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0:11.3	From the Cruise One Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm Matt Baskford.
0:14.7	And I'm Doug Parker.
0:15.5	Follow us on Twitter at Cruise Radio and check out our Facebook page, Facebook.com slash Cruise Radio.
0:20.6	On this show, we'll talk to Jeff Edwards about his latest book going all the way and his recent experience with norovirus. Also, a very cool new cruising social networking site out there called Meetoncruise.com. We'll be talking to the president of that site later too. But first first, Stewart's year on the cruise guy is with us as always.
0:38.4	This time, he is in Mexico.
0:40.4	Hey, Stuart.
0:41.5	Hey, Matt.
0:41.9	Hey, Doug.
0:42.4	Hey, man.
0:42.8	Where exactly are you?
0:44.0	Down in the Yucatan Peninsula.
0:46.0	We're in Riviera, Maya, which is between Cancun and Plydele Carmen.
0:51.1	And it's a really nice resort area away from the nonsense and everything
0:56.3	that goes on in Cancun.
0:57.5	All right to the talking points.
0:59.2	Disney is not only entertaining people on their cruises, they are rescuing people.
1:03.6	Disney Magic was involved in rescuing 18 Algerians who were lost at sea, so Disney Magic
1:10.2	picked them up, you know, 2400 passenger,
1:13.2	and they were actually between Gibraltar and Barcelona, and, you know, the Algerians were stranded
1:19.6	for four to five days. Several other ships were involved in the rescue, but it was Disney Magic
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