090 Sneaking Alcohol on a Cruise & the Norovirus

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2011

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Our medical correspondent Ed McDonough joins us to talk about all things Norovirus.

Paul Motter from Cruise Mates talks about an article he wrote, "How to Sneak Alcohol on a Cruise Ship."

Stewart Chiron, "The Cruise Guy"discusses the explosion in the port of Gibraltar effecting Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas. The MSC Opera was detained in Southampton last week after it recently completed its dry dock repairs, find out why. Also, Royal Caribbean is heading back to Japan. Get the scoop.

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more.
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0:12.3	From the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm Matt Baskford.
0:16.3	And I'm Doug Parker. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook at cruiseradio.net.
0:20.5	Hope you had an awesome three-day Memorial Day weekend. What'd you do, Doug? Went to a concert and swept my butt off outside of 95-degree weather. Nice. What'd you do? I was by the lake, enjoying many, many, many, many, many, many, many, corona. You were at your lakehouse, right? I was. Yes, yes. I'm very rich and fancy that way.
0:38.8	On this show, we're going to talk to Physicians Assistant Ed McDunna about norovirus and
0:43.4	Paul Motter of CruiseMas.com about smuggling alcohol onto your cruise. But first, Stuart Sheron,
0:49.0	the cruise guy is here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Hey, man. Let's get right to it.
0:54.2	A big story. The fuel explosion in Gibraltar while Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas was tied up there.
1:00.4	They pulled the gangway and left immediately.
1:02.7	I'm assuming that was a safety precaution, but was the ship in danger at any time?
1:07.0	Well, the good news is from what we know is the ship was never in danger. It was a fuel tank that was somewhat close to the ship.
1:15.4	Twelve passengers were injured, but they claim it was very, very minor injuries. And so they essentially, like you said, they skedaddled out of there.
1:25.3	And they were getting ready to leave, you know, they were close to leaving anyways.
1:29.1	So, you know, their day in Gibraltar was pretty much over.
1:33.1	How did the people get hurt?
1:34.2	Did the, like, did it blow up and blow the top off the fuel container?
1:38.5	The, it's one of those big tanks.
1:40.5	So the top of the tank was blown.
1:42.9	So the force that was generated from the explosion
1:47.1	probably, you know, through some people, you know, around. While we're on the subject of
1:53.2	Royal Caribbean, they'll be heading back to Japan this August. Now, did they originally pull out of
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