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Posted on: May 17, 2012 email the editors email a friend small medium large View Comments Home Topics Cruise By Donna TunneySeabourn is standing by its decision to force an elderly couple to disembark the Seabourn Sojourn on May 12, after the wife missed the ship’s mandatory passenger safety drill before departure from Lisbon.The California couple had booked a 20-day, three-leg cruise from Rome to Hamburg, and had participated in the drill when the ship left Rome on May 4. At the start of the second leg from Lisbon, another drill was announced and held, per industry policy.
But the 84-year-old woman wasn’t feeling well, and since she had participated in the drill before leaving Rome, she decided to skip it, said her agent, Steven Shulem, president of Strictly Vacations in Santa Barbara. Her 90-year-old husband attended both drills.
Within an hour of the Lisbon drill, the two found themselves standing with their luggage on the pier as the Sojourn sailed off.
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