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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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A review of Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas. This was a seven-night Western Caribbean cruise from PortMiami to Cozumel, Costa Maya, and Perfect Day at CocoCay.

Staff writer Richard Simms has cruise news on the man overboard on Allure of the Seas during the Taylor Swift-themed cruise, Carnival Cruise Line's President sky diving for charity, details on NCL's new ships, and Star Princess.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.2	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. Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio.
0:18.0	Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker.
0:23.9	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:25.8	Very happy to have you here, my friend.
0:34.1	A review of Royal Caribbean's icon of the seas this week, the largest cruise ship at the time of recording in the world.
0:39.7	Also, staff writer Richard Sims is here with Cruise News. So checking in with Richard right now from the Yacht Club on MSC Merivia in which he is sailing this week. Hey, Richard.
0:45.7	Well, you know, I will try and prevent my, my butler from interrupting while we do this.
0:51.4	You know, they're showering me with treats, so I can't guarantee that they
0:54.9	won't come in any moment now with something. Well, we start with a sad story that is developing
0:59.7	in the Bahamas right now. Yeah, that's right, Doug, because it involves someone going overboard
1:05.2	from a ship, and we all know those stories very rarely have happy endings. In this case, the woman is a 66-year-old who was traveling on a lore of the seas from Miami.
1:17.6	The three-day sailing had departed Nassau, was headed toward perfect day when the incident happened.
1:24.6	This type of story usually gives a lot of attention in the media under any circumstances.
1:29.5	They love doing people, you know, people overboard stories.
1:33.9	But this one has gotten even more play because the sailing was Taylor Swift theme.
1:39.6	Now, to be clear, Tate was not on board.
1:43.1	She has no association with this.
1:45.0	It was, you know, a group of Taylor Swift fans, but not a, like, you know, it's not like Taylor Swift was coming on, a Lord of the Seas to perform.
1:56.0	But when you put the words Taylor Swift and Man Overboard into the same sentence, that's going to get a whole lot of press.
2:03.2	So you can pretty much guarantee everyone has heard about it.
2:07.9	The U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Bahamian Defense Force were called to assist with the search, as was Utopia of the Seas.
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