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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Don just returned from a seven-night Western Caribbean sailing on Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas. Don gives us a detailed review the Oasis, what it's like sailing on the world's largest cruise ship, and some tips he learned along the way.

Cruise News with Sherry Kennedy

Princess Cruises Raises Gratuities
Carnival orders new ships
Royal Caribbean crew member dies in lifeboat drill
MSC delays private island to 2018
Fathom adds more Cuba sailings
Holland America adds another ship to Alaska in 2017

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0:00.0	Cruise Radio is brought to you in part by Tripinsurance.com. Travel insurance done right by the people who know travel insurance. Get a quote today at Tripinsurance.com.
0:10.2	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio.
0:17.0	Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here. Coming up on this week's show, we'll get a review of
0:25.2	Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas. Dawn is standing by to give us a killer review of him and his
0:30.6	wife's vacation aboard that one of the world's largest cruise ships. I think there's three of them out there
0:36.4	now. Also, Sherry Kennedy
0:39.0	standing by with Cruise News just a couple of seconds. But first, don't forget, Cruise Radio News.
0:44.1	It's our Facebook group. Kick around the Cruise News with us. Just look us up on Facebook at
0:49.0	Cruise Radio News. All right, Sherry Laskin in for Stuart Sheeron, the Cruz Guy. Hey, Sherry. Hey, Doug. How are you?
0:56.0	Good. Kicking off cruise news with some unfortunate news, some very, very sad news out of the rural
1:01.3	Caribbean camp that involved a crew member and a lifeboat drill. What do you have on this?
1:06.3	Well, yeah, it is another sad event. A crew member died in a lifeboat accident aboard the harmony of the seas while it was docked in Marseille.
1:15.2	It was just doing a routine exercise, training exercise, I guess they call them.
1:21.1	And they're not quite sure if the cable that supported the lifeboat detached or if there was some kind of mechanical failure,
1:29.4	but the lifeboat did fall about 30 feet right into the water. And along with one crew member
1:35.7	that died, four more were also injured. And one has been released from the hospital in Marseille
1:41.3	while the other three are still in hospital recovering.
1:45.5	The victim was only 42 years old.
1:49.2	His name was Ariel Lason.
1:51.2	He was from the Philippines.
1:53.2	And apparently from the outpouring of emails and texts to Royal Caribbean,
1:59.4	he was known by a lot of the passengers and of course the crew,
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