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Hey, Douglas. So MSE Cruises failed a CDC inspection. Not just failing it, though. They failed it

pretty miserably. You know, if you're going to do something, go bigger, go home. Right? This isn't the kind of thing we like to report, but it's also something we really haven't found ourselves having to report all that often in the last year or two. I feel like, I feel like a while back, like maybe three years ago, there was a phase where a lot of ships were failing their inspections. You know, it was just, it was fairly

regular, but we haven't seen much of that lately. But last month, MSCCI'd not only failed at

CDC health inspection, but did so pretty spectacularly. Now, these inspections are not scheduled,

which is done by design so that the crew can't run around fixing problems before the inspectors board.

In order to pass, a ship needs to score at least 87 out of 100 points. In this case, Seaside scored a 67.

Now, when you look at the list of violations for any ship, and almost every

ship, even ones that pass, will have at least a couple of violations. It's not at all unusual.

And they usually involve food-related issues. It'll be things like, you know, there were flies on

the fruit, or there were, you know, tongs that shouldn't have in a place where they shouldn't

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