This was our 18th cruise and 13th with Royal Caribbean. As I’m writing this, the media is full of reports on the Brazilian man who went overboard at 1:00 a.m. on Friday. I just have to first get this out of my system because of the crazy news reports I’ve seen.

“Oscar, Oscar, Oscar Man Overboard Portside”

Let me say that my wife and I were sound asleep and didn’t hear the ship-wide announcement, despite being just a five decks above where the incident took place. However we did attend the scheduled Captain’s Corner at 1:00 p.m. held in the Comedy Club on deck 4. Captain Trym Selvag made himself available to answer any and all questions about the cruise, the ship, the crew and running the largest cruise ship in the fleet. This was a long scheduled event, not something to address the tragic man overboard event earlier in the morning. Read more