Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cruise-passenger-80-found-dead-after-abandoned-great-127008804
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troed@fedia.io · 66 pts · 284d
This sounds a bit weird but I hope she died from the fall rather than from having been left there ...
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 283d
That seems the most likely:
"Mum felt ill on the hill climb. She was asked to head down, unescorted. Then the ship left"
She fell on the trail headed back. Sending an 80 year old, who felt ill, back unescorted was a failure in duty and comprehension.
In fact, take the age out of it, sending anyone who feels ill back unescorted is a failure in duty and comprehension.
brem@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 283d
Dying at 80 is a privilege, let's just hope it wasn't painful.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 283d
My guess is, falling to death off a trail on a place called "Lizard Island" was likely pretty awful.
brem@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 283d
Best I can do is she died on top and the wind blew her over the edge.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 282d
Thanks Rick
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 284d
What an awful way to die, abandoned and alone.
This was clearly negligence by the crew, both leaving an 80 year old woman alone, and then not do a head count before leaving.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 36 pts · 284d
This actually seems to happen semi-regularly in Queensland. This is certainly not the first time.
You'd think they'd have some kind of infallible double redundancy tag out system.
One wonders how often this might happen and go unreported.
Edit: oof. Sorry, I just read the article. Looks like she didn't die because she was left behind. Rather, she fell off a cliff and died which is why she didn't board the boat prior to it's departure. Still. Wouldn't hurt to have some awareness of how many passengers had re-boarded the boat.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 284d
Only been on one cruise years ago but pretty sure the fine print you agree to says, if your not back on the ship when it’s time to leave port you’re on your own finding your way onward.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 284d
Yeah, but fine print isn't always binding.
You can leave someone in Port if they were dawdling back from the bar.
You can't leave an 80 year old woman alone on an uninhabited island in the heat with no water.
Cherry@piefed.social · 17 pts · 284d
It’s prob should have a level of care from the cruise company when it’s to a remote or uninhabited island VRs a tourist city.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
True.
youngGoku@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 284d
The logistics of handling that many people makes it near impossible to manage. But I get what you're saying.
toast@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 284d
I think you should go read it again. It isn't really clear when she died.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 284d
In this case a headcount before leaving could kinda have been feasible as the ship only had 120 passengers - often it isn't simply because modern cruise ships tend to be massive and have way too many passengers to keep track of - but from what I could understand they had an electronic system in place and for some reason she either wasn't marked as having left, or had somehow been mistakingly marked as returned.
She was noticed as missing when they did do a "headcount", during the evening dinner.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 283d
Are you kidding this is in my top 3 ways to die! 80, on a tropical island, and with nobody near me!
The other two ways involve explosive vests.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 282d
Lemme guess, you slide the vest under an armored vehicle heading your direction so it flips upside down and squishes you?
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 282d
Calm down Michael Bay.
brem@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 283d
I know enough about cruise ships to know this smells fishy.
She probably died on board and they left her on an island as a cover up. They have been known to do weird stuff such as storing bodies in freezers along with food. There's weird protocol and much legal work. Scandalous. Don't be old on a cruise ship, fo sho
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 282d
Reminds me of the movie I watched recently, Code 3.
Patient never dies in the ambulance. Too much paperwork. Patient can die before or after the ride.
brem@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 282d
Sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 281d
It was a pretty solid movie. Lovely change of pace from expensive blockbusters and such. Good dark humour.
Resand@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 284d
Read this as 80 passengers first and was a tad shocked
gibmiser@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 284d
80-year-old passenger or 80 year-old passengers?
Very different news story
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 284d
I wasn't aware marooning was still a practice on cruise ships
Part4@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 284d
brem@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 283d
Oh snap, THAT'S where we left grandomomamma. Bummer :/
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 281d
"does her corpse apply for a carbon offset credit?" -cruise ship operator
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -24 pts · 284d
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 284d
An 80 year old woman was abandoned on a hiking trail and fell off the trail to her death. What the fuck is wrong with you
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 283d
Extremism. Somehow people like that think they're better when they spread such callous indifference.
Like I get it, cruises aren't good for the environment at all but acting like someone deserved to die for it? They want to save humanity without bothering to preserve humanity.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 283d
I find it ironic she died in the ecological environment she was trying to destroy.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -6 pts · 283d
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 284d
I hope you don't crash your car or choke on a bone.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 283d
They can't, this person obvious doesn't pollute or consume whatsoever. They have no existence at all.
Ignore the internet posting they do, theirs isn't in any way related to generation of electricity or anything that could possibly negatively harm the earth in any way.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 283d
An orc died by its own blade, and all the other orcs rose up in ululation, for the irony was not lost upon them, and the truth hurt.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 283d
Look in the mirror bro, we're all orcs.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 283d
And if I ever got on a cruise ship feel free to celebrate my well-deserved demise.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 283d
Why just cruise ships? Why not driving a car, or eating meat?
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 283d
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 282d
I'm sorry what - after that poetry about orcs, you seriously still eat meat and justify it with this self-serving excuse? No it is not onerous. You don't even have to tell anyone. It's easy and cheaper.
We can go back and forth on purity tests that conveniently favor ourselves, cheering at the deaths of commons... or you can direct your anger at systemic change that can actually help. Inb4 worthless bitter nihilism.