Cruise skilled Dr. Ross Klein reviews that there have been 364 individuals who have gone overboard from ships within the last twenty years. Medical evacuation of crew members or visitors on cruise ships is provided by the USCG without price or expense to the cruise visitors, crew members or the cruise strains themselves. It is certainly one of the many bills incurred by U.S. federal agencies that are paid by U.S. taxpayers. In January of this year, we reported that Royal Caribbean started utilizing the Serenade of the Seas as a floating “quarantine or hospital ship” to deal with crew members contaminated with COVID-19. The company was additionally utilizing a quantity of other cruise ships, including the Vision of the Seas, Rhapsody of the Seas and Jewel of the Seas as floating hospitals / quarantine hotels for its contaminated crew members.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University …