You’ve likely heard about the Panamanian fisherman suing Princess Cruises.  He and two friends had drifted for 16 days in the ocean with a dead engine when they saw the ship.  He says they waved for help and people on the deck saw them but the ship did not stop.  His two friends later died as they drifted for another 12 days before rescue.   The Princess Captain says he was never informed of the people in distress, and, absent any proof to the contrary, I tend to believe him.  I was on a cruise ship in the Caribbean when something woke me up in the night.  I could see a lot of bright lights through the porthole curtains.  We were doing a rescue in the dark.  A sail boat had hit one of the many containers that float just under the surface in those sea lanes.  The operator had managed to get off an SOS and was in a life raft.  Our ship had heard the distress call, observed the Law of the Sea, went off course, and found him.  He was given dry clothes, a meal and a bed and put off at the next port.  In the Panamanian case, a passenger is now now saying she did alert a ship worker, so even if the captain was never told, the fisherman may still have a case.   Let me know what you think.

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