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Originally Posted by justjim
This time it was a fire aboard the Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of The Seas Cruise Ship. It seems every couple of weeks you hear of another "troubled" cruise. These incidents seem to be escalating to the point where a person might want to think twice about cruising. What is going on?
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Considering how many cruise ships there are now and, given the size of the newer ones, how many people are cruising, the accident rate is very low and most are relatively minor bearing in mind the on-board emergency response facilities.
However, I do think that the cruise lines are cutting back on preventative maintenance - trying to keep the ships at sea earning money rather than dry-docking them on a regular basis - and this may well be contributing to accidents that would otherwise have been avoided.