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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. So happy to have you here, my friend. I got a listen to email asking about the $100 on board credit offer. If you check out cruiseradio.net and click on the box on the upper right hand side, it says book with us. You can get up to $100 in onboard credit just by clicking that link there and booking your cruise. So that's going on. Also a little later on in the program,

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Also a little later on in the program, we'll get a full review of Carnival Sensation from

listener Andy.

He just returned from a four-night Bahamas sailing.

Of course, Carnival Sensation does three and four-night Bahamas cruises out of Port Canaveral.

But first, we always love when Theresa Norton

Massick Cruise beat editor of TravelPulse.com stumbles into the studio. Hello, Teresa. Stumbles.

I'm perfectly sober, I'll have you know. Okay, well, it's only three o'clock, so I'll give you some time there.

Some very, very sad news here last week. Passengers were killed in a

float plane accident over in Alaska. What are the details on this, Teresa? Yeah, very tragic. There

were eight Holland America passengers from the Westerdam. They were on Alaska Inside Passage

crews, took a flight seeing excursion, you know, which is basically going on a float plane and sailing

over the misty fjords, but the plane crashed and all eight passengers died along with the pilot.

Very tragic.

They say the weather was kind of bad, bad day.

It's not known yet if that, you know, was a contributing factor.

I just checked and the cause is still under investigation, so we don't really know what happened other than very tragic. You know, that weather in Alaska is so unpredictable, too. My friend actually works on the Westerdam, and she tweeted a photo earlier that day before the plane crash of the weather over there, and it was just you couldn't see in front of you. So it was, yeah, and you've been to Alaska many times, And you know how just how erratic that weather is. Yeah, and I remember going to Catchcan. It was just like raining and raining all the time. You know, that brings up the question of, you know, do they take off in that kind of weather? But, you know, anything we can speculate on now, we just don't know. The NTSB is on site investigating as well as the

local authorities. So hopefully we'll get some answers at some point. All right. Well, our

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