Anybody who has ever been on a cruise ship knows that they almost always depart on time.
On the first night of my very first cruise, the cruise director told the passengers: “If you are late back to port, we will leave without you. We’ve done it before; we’ll do it again – and I’ll be standing there waving at you as we sail away.”
It seems that scenario just happened on the Norwegian Breakaway — perhaps with the exception of the waving.
Pictures have emerged of a woman who was late back to port at Nassau in the Bahamas apparently sobbing and pleading with the ship to return, because she had left her children onboard.
Details are scarce about whether the children were alone, and what the ship’s captain or the cruise line did. Social media users seem divided over the issue – some said the ship ought to have returned, others said that she would have known the rules and should have followed them.
I can see both sides. My inclination is to side with those who endorsed the decision to depart without her, but the presence of the children onboard complicates things.
