NEW YORK -- Despite
being rocked by a freak wave that reached up to the ships 10th
deck, the Norwegian Dawn was preparing Monday to set sail from New
York on its next voyage.
The 2,224-passenger
Dawn, which sails to the Bahamas, Florida and the Caribbean
year-round from New York, was en route to New York when it
encountered rough weather on the evening of April 15. The weather
appeared slightly calmer at daybreak, NCL said, but the ship was
hit by a freak wave that smashed two windows and flooded 62 cabins.
Four passengers were injured with cuts and bruises.
The ship was
diverted to Charleston, S.C., in order to conduct repairs and fly
home passengers whose cabins had been flooded. NCL said on April 17
that the Dawn left Charleston at 12:30 a.m. after completing
successful repairs to the two windows and passing a U.S. Coast
Guard inspection.
The ship arrived in
New York at around 9 a.m. April 18.
The Dawn will
operate a revised schedule on the cruise departing April 18. After
originally dropping Great Stirrup Cay, its private island in the
Bahamas, from its itinerary for the week, NCL added the call back
in and eliminated its Miami call, with the proviso that in the
event that the weather looks like the tendering operation in our
private island may not be feasible, then we will continue to
Miami.
Passengers on this
cruise will be covered under NCLs Winter Weather Guarantee, which
gives passengers a $100 per-person onboard credit and prorates the
cruise fare by one day, which will be refunded to the passengers
onboard account.
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