Disney Wish. MAN OVERBOARD!

[Love4Eeyore]

Wow, $150 OBC seems more than fair. So glad it wasn't a person found, whether from the ship or not!

 

[kathi]

How in the world could people not respond to a general alarm? It's not like they were sleeping through it. That is crazy and dangerous.

 

[dreamer17555]

Im so glad it was a false alarm but DCL is all over the place with compensation for ship issues- A false alarm gets $150 but when the Magic had the leak in the atrium they were given nothing?? The Magic Atrium Leak lasted longer and impacted more of the sailing... If it had been a MOB I assume nothing would have been given. Strange choice.

 

[Annabell]

Luckily it was only a big piece of debris.

 

[DCLMP]

Im so glad it was a false alarm but DCL is all over the place with compensation for ship issues- A false alarm gets $150 but when the Magic had the leak in the atrium they were given nothing?? The Magic Atrium Leak lasted longer and impacted more of the sailing... If it had been a MOB I assume nothing would have been given. Strange choice.

Probably because the alarm scared people and the leak was a maintenance issue that was an annoyance.

 

[Mommb]

Im so glad it was a false alarm but DCL is all over the place with compensation for ship issues- A false alarm gets $150 but when the Magic had the leak in the atrium they were given nothing?? The Magic Atrium Leak lasted longer and impacted more of the sailing... If it had been a MOB I assume nothing would have been given. Strange choice.

Did the leak make it impossible to get across the ship, or to enter any areas? My understanding is that it was possible to walk around the area that was blocked off.

The safety alert, however, did make it impossible to sleep or attend activities for some time. It also apparently scared some young passengers far more than a leak would have.

I hope that anyone who didn't show up or showed up extremely late to their muster stations is ineligible for the credit. I doubt that will happen, but it should.

 

[DCLMP]

Luckily it was only a big piece of debris.

I wonder who reported the MOB l

 

[dreamer17555]

Did the leak make it impossible to get across the ship, or to enter any areas? My understanding is that it was possible to walk around the area that was blocked off.

The safety alert, however, did make it impossible to sleep or attend activities for some time. It also apparently scared some young passengers far more than a leak would have.

I hope that anyone who didn't show up or showed up extremely late to their muster stations is ineligible for the credit. I doubt that will happen, but it should.

You could not cross the ship on that floor. You had to go up or down a floor to cross. I do think this is interesting for DCL to set this precedent. I understand this could be frightening but if it had been a missing person do we think DCL would be offering a credit? We have been on a sailing where sadly a passenger passed away delaying our return to PC and people missed flights, my son had hard time as they asked everyone to leave their rooms but the ship was packed and everyone was everywhere (he is autistic). We did not receive nor did I expect compensation.

 

[anricat]

I wonder who reported the MOB l

Nobody. It's an automatic sensor.

 

[Kwami]

How in the world could people not respond to a general alarm? It's not like they were sleeping through it. That is crazy and dangerous.

I would never, ever ignore an alarm on a ship and I wouldn't recommend that anyone else do so, either.

But with that said...

Have you ever lived in a college dorm or an apartment? People do stupid things to set off the fire alarms fairly often. After the first few, you just ignore it. Get out of bed at 2am and go out in the cold because someone burned popcorn? No, thanks! I'll just put the pillow over my head to muffle the alarm sound and wait it out. I'd be that some people on the cruise had the same idea, unfortunately.

 

[DCLMP]

Nobody. It's an automatic sensor.

An automatic sensor picked up debris in the ocean?

 

[lanejudy]

The compensation may be for interrupted/cancelled programming more so than to compensate for anyone being scared.

 

[dreamer17555]

The compensation may be for interrupted/cancelled programming more so than to compensate for anyone being scared.

That seems like a lot of compensation compared to what they have been doing recently. Also I do wonder would they have offered this if a person had gone over and it wasn't a false alarm? We have missed out on pirate night fireworks because we had to reroute for a medical emergency- nothing offered. Plenty of different interruptions (shows that could not continue on for technical reasons in the theater, etc) and I get this was ship wide but it does seem to be an outlier to how DCL generally handles compensation.

And I do wonder if some cruisers will get a stupid idea that a false alarm emergency muster drill means $ and do dumb things to try to "accidentally" cause one (like "mistakenly" dropping a large object over the side...) I would hope not but I once saw a cruiser on the Wish try to climb over the rail on the 2nd story of Luna to argue with the adult entertainment host so its amazing what people will do.

 

[Kwami]

The compensation may be for interrupted/cancelled programming more so than to compensate for anyone being scared.

Yeah, especially since this happened right at the start of second dinner. I wonder if they figured out a way to feed everyone.

 

[dreamer17555]

Yeah, especially since this happened right at the start of second dinner. I wonder if they figured out a way to feed everyone.

I thought the overboard was around 8 and muster was at 9:45-10 PM so it should not have impacted dinner

 

[Kwami]

I thought the overboard was around 8 and muster was at 9:45-10 PM so it should not have impacted dinner

Second dinner is at 8:15ish, though. I guess 9:45 is late enough that just about everyone would be finished. I thought the muster was closer to 8:00, but I probably just misread something.

 

[DCLMP]

The compensation may be for interrupted/cancelled programming more so than to compensate for anyone being scared.

I would equate it to a plane making an emergency landing over something minor vs a toilet not working. I've experienced both, the first was compensated the later was not.

 

[lanejudy]

Also I do wonder would they have offered this if a person had gone over and it wasn't a false alarm?

I don’t recall reading about compensation when the little girl went overboard earlier this summer. But that didn’t involve a muster and disruption to all activities onboard.

 

[Kwami]

I would equate it to a plane making an emergency landing over something minor vs a toilet not working. I've experienced both, the first was compensated the later was not.

I was on a flight home from Tokyo when, four hour into the flight, the pilot decided to turn us around and go back to Tokyo because one of the toilets wasn't working and that was a "human rights issue". By the time we all got off the airplane, back through immigration, and to our hotel rooms, it was 3:30am. We had to be back on the airplane at 10:00 to fly out again. No compensation!

 

[happycamper47]

I don’t recall reading about compensation when the little girl went overboard earlier this summer. But that didn’t involve a muster and disruption to all activities onboard.

I thought somebody said it turned out to be debris floating in the water. If it looked like a person or body it may have been spotted from the bridge or a guest may have reported it. Maritime law requires them to stop and search. It's also why they had to do a Muster and causing the major disruption vs it being a verified MOB.