071 Cruise Ship Safety

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Doug Parker

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2011

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk with maritime legal expert Jim Walker about Staying Safe at Sea.

Travel Writer, Chris Owen talks to us about -- What to expect in 2011, when it comes to cruising.

Stewart Chrion The Cruise Guy® catches us up on this weeks Cruise News. Featuring the meeting of the three Cunard Queens, the Disney Dream, and ships pulling out of the West Coast.

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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.net.
0:14.6	From the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm Matt Baskford.
0:18.5	And I'm Doug Parker. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook at Cruise Radio. On this show, Maritime legal expert Jim Walker will talk to us about six tips for staying safe at sea. And we'll be talking to travel writer Chris Owen on his latest article he wrote, what to expect in 2011 when it comes to cruising. Also, Chris wrote an article earlier today that got picked up by Fox News,
0:37.8	so that's kind of cool. That's very cool. But first, Stuart, Stuart on the cruise guy, joins us. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt, hey, Doug? This has been in the news quite a bit. CNN, CNBC, been covering this, a lot of cruise ships pulling out of the West Coast. Yeah, well, you know, it's amazing. They just kind of woke up after
0:34.7	you know the latest development but
0:36.8	you know this is you know the decline in the mexican
0:38.9	market is as well, you know, it's amazing. They just kind of woke up after, you know, the latest development,
0:54.6	but, you know, the decline in the Mexican market has been going on easily since 2007. The
1:02.5	West Coast departures peaked in 2005, but, you know, since about 2007, they've really been
1:08.8	going down. And it wasn't the border violence. It wasn't the H-1-N really been going down it wasn't the border violence was the h1 edwin but you know violence it wasn't
1:13.9	the the state of the economy it's just look it's the same it's all they can do
1:19.0	is change the ships
1:21.1	and both royal cribby and carnival uh... made you brought out new ships
1:25.5	in two thousand ten
1:27.0	uh... royal brought out mariner the seas carnal brought out uh... carnal splendor
1:31.5	and it just didn't make a bit of difference but
1:34.9	uh... the first line to really make the the change was was princess
1:39.3	uh... prince's dropped from about thirty two sailing down to about seventeen and further reduced it again going into next year.
1:48.6	NCL's pulling out. Royal was out with Monarch of the Seas a few years ago from the 3 and 40 market.
1:55.1	They're pulling. Mariner the Seas just left this past Sunday.
1:59.4	And it's just been a continuation of, look, we could take our
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