She appeared to have fallen from a cliff or slope
This sounds a bit weird but I hope she died from the fall rather than from having been left there ...
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That seems the most likely:
"Mum felt ill on the hill climb. She was asked to head down, unescorted. Then the ship left"
She fell on the trail headed back. Sending an 80 year old, who felt ill, back unescorted was a failure in duty and comprehension.
In fact, take the age out of it, sending anyone who feels ill back unescorted is a failure in duty and comprehension.
Dying at 80 is a privilege, let's just hope it wasn't painful.
My guess is, falling to death off a trail on a place called "Lizard Island" was likely pretty awful.
Best I can do is she died on top and the wind blew her over the edge.
Thanks Rick
What an awful way to die, abandoned and alone.
This was clearly negligence by the crew, both leaving an 80 year old woman alone, and then not do a head count before leaving.
This actually seems to happen semi-regularly in Queensland. This is certainly not the first time.
You'd think they'd have some kind of infallible double redundancy tag out system.
One wonders how often this might happen and go unreported.
Edit: oof. Sorry, I just read the article. Looks like she didn't die because she was left behind. Rather, she fell off a cliff and died which is why she didn't board the boat prior to it's departure. Still. Wouldn't hurt to have some awareness of how many passengers had re-boarded the boat.
Only been on one cruise years ago but pretty sure the fine print you agree to says, if your not back on the ship when it’s time to leave port you’re on your own finding your way onward.
Yeah, but fine print isn't always binding.
You can leave someone in Port if they were dawdling back from the bar.
You can't leave an 80 year old woman alone on an uninhabited island in the heat with no water.
It’s prob should have a level of care from the cruise company when it’s to a remote or uninhabited island VRs a tourist city.
True.
The logistics of handling that many people makes it near impossible to manage. But I get what you're saying.
I think you should go read it again. It isn't really clear when she died.
In this case a headcount before leaving could kinda have been feasible as the ship only had 120 passengers - often it isn't simply because modern cruise ships tend to be massive and have way too many passengers to keep track of - but from what I could understand they had an electronic system in place and for some reason she either wasn't marked as having left, or had somehow been mistakingly marked as returned.
She was noticed as missing when they did do a "headcount", during the evening dinner.
Are you kidding this is in my top 3 ways to die! 80, on a tropical island, and with nobody near me!
The other two ways involve explosive vests.
Lemme guess, you slide the vest under an armored vehicle heading your direction so it flips upside down and squishes you?
Calm down Michael Bay.
I know enough about cruise ships to know this smells fishy.
She probably died on board and they left her on an island as a cover up. They have been known to do weird stuff such as storing bodies in freezers along with food. There's weird protocol and much legal work. Scandalous. Don't be old on a cruise ship, fo sho
Reminds me of the movie I watched recently, Code 3.
Patient never dies in the ambulance. Too much paperwork. Patient can die before or after the ride.
Sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
It was a pretty solid movie. Lovely change of pace from expensive blockbusters and such. Good dark humour.
Read this as 80 passengers first and was a tad shocked
80-year-old passenger or 80 year-old passengers?
Very different news story
I wasn't aware marooning was still a practice on cruise ships
Oh snap, THAT'S where we left grandomomamma. Bummer :/
"does her corpse apply for a carbon offset credit?" -cruise ship operator