How the pandemic is affecting cruisers
This article was originally written and published by me on the Ocean Cruising Club website. I am posting here as well just to keep from losing it. Main Photo (c) Caroline Dobbs. The vessels departing from Antigua (left to right) Nebula, Fathom and Balou , all UK registered and heading home. Pandemic in Paradise Daria Blackwell | 27/05/2020 As reports of Covid-19 outbreaks began to circulate, the OCC was monitoring the situation in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and IndoPacific regions. What could we do to assist stranded cruisers? Reports from China of a highly contagious novel coronavirus began circulating in January. But China was far away from most places in paradise. At first, tourism remained active and cruisers went about their business blissfully unaware of the mounting threat of a pandemic. As tourists flying in from severely affected European nations began to show signs of infection and coronavirus began to spread...