An 18-year-old Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift at
sea is suing Princess Cruise Lines,
arguing that one of its Cruise ship should have stopped and saved him.A lawsuit filed in Florida last week says the behavior of officers
or crew members of the Star Princess was "outrageous and, under the
circumstances, so beyond all bounds of decency as to be regarded as shocking,
atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community."Three passengers who were bird watching on the ship alerted a crew
member when they spotted Adrian Vasquez and his companions were signaling for
help from their fishing boat, the suit says.Even though crew members "had clear knowledge that people
were stranded in an open boat hundreds of miles from shore in the Pacific Ocean
and desperately calling for their help," the suit says, "they
consciously ignored the emergency situation and did not deviate from their
cruise."The fishing boat, Fifty Cents, had been adrift for 15 days when it
crossed paths with the Star Princess on March 10, according to the lawsuit. They
said t the time the ship passed all three fishermen aboard were alive. Do you
think this was a wrongful doing of the ship’s captain.
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