Thread: Grand Princess in trouble or at least just had an opps!

Taken from a current passenger (not me I'm at home) onboard the Grand right now and they posted this on another board:

We have just experienced a heavy list starboard on the Grand Princess departing from Galveston, Texas. We we're eating supper when the ship listed so heavily that glassware, dishes, ornaments, and numerous objects fell to the floor with a crash. We, and several other passengers, immediately left the dining room and headed to the outer 7th deck where the lifeboats are located. People were frustrated and confused not knowing what was happening.

We noted the ship's wake aswe had made a very sharp 180 degree turn to port and are now heading back towards Galveston. The captain finally made an announcement several minutes later stating that he had made an emergency turn to return back to Galveston as there is a critically ill patient on board in need of urgent medical attention.

We hope that there is no intrinsic problem with the ship itself, but we feel that the ship is continuing to slightly list to starboard as we head back. We do know that there have been mechanical problems with this ship for several weeks and perhaps it is now getting worse. Also, you would expect a life-flight helicopter to retrieve a critically ill patient as we are not far off the Texas coast as we just left port around 4:45 PM; instead of rerouting the ship back to Galveston as this will take over 1-2 hours to return.

Things have stabilized now as I am writing this but we do not know if the cruise will continue or if there will be any port changes. We arre grateful that his happened so early in the trip as it could have been quite frightening if it had occurred while we were in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and/or while we were sleeping.

The captain has just announced that galley services are now unavailable and the dining room has been temporarily cleared.

We will update as we learn anything new.

Yikes!! Please keep us informed!!!

Will do Sue! I've got a waiter onboard I'm concerned about. You can bet I'll be keeping my eyes out for any info.

Thanks for finding it!! I am curious why they didn't use a helicopter too!!

I hope it's not what I'm thinking right now. The Grand has been suffering Generator problems for the past 4 months or so. If something "blew" from being over worked, the criticaly ill passenger may be a crew member and the Grand can't continue until fixed.

Ships with sickness aboard is starting to worry me a bit, it seems like they could come up with a way to erradicate the parasites or what not.

That medical problem sounds more thatn a little suspious.

It will be interesting to hear more about it.

Rex, passengers bring illness on board, then it is spread by touching everything!! The ships have hand sanitizer in the buffet area but lots don't use it, and the crew hands you your plate and utensils with latex gloves on, but people cough and sneeze and not washing after bathroom use, and some ships have you sign a form that says your are not sick before you board, but of course, people aren't going to not be allowed to board so they say no!!

Heather, thanks for the info! How yucky.

I'm PMing you my info in case something is really wrong with the ship.

If they did indeed make a manuver to return to port I would think they would do it so as not to damage the ship. That is very irresponsible. Since they had to close the dining room due to breakage, etc. It probably also happened in the gift shop.
We are supposed to be on the ship in June in Europe so I sure hope they get it fixed. Please post again when you find out what's happening.