kearney Posted April 9, 2021 #1 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I posted this under the Royal Caribbean form, but thought I would note it here. Apparently the volcano on St Vincent is getting close to popping and they have ordered an evacuation of a northern section of the Island. RCCL has offered three cruise ships to help evacuate residents and take them to other islands. Carnival has also offered assistance. It appears Serenade of the Seas is on its way along with Reflection. check out marinetraffic.com if you want to track ships progress. Amazing what you can learn in real time.... Just checked it and it looks like Silhouette may be joining them, since it just left Barbados heading in that direction. It is really nice to see the cruise lines jumping in so quickly to offer assistance. I am hoping and praying that this is not going to be needed help... but apparently the dome has been rising and has reached the top of the crater. Here is a link to a news story about the situation a few hours ago.. news story on volcano 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare hcat Posted April 9, 2021 #2 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Wow..scary stuff. Guess all Covid protocols will be waived in view of the pending emergency, Hope for a good outcome... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruisestitch Posted April 9, 2021 #3 Share Posted April 9, 2021 (edited) Thanks....please keep us updated if you learn more And if you watch the YouTube news story, you will hear the Prime Minister say that those who will be evacuated to nearby islands will be required to be vaccinated. It doesn’t sound like they are overlooking pandemic protocols. Evacuees were even told to pack sanitizer. Edited April 9, 2021 by cruisestitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kearney Posted April 9, 2021 Author #4 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Alas the risk of island life...when the island has a volcano on it. Just hope they can avoid a White Island situation and get everyone off that needs to get off. map showing the red zone being evacuated I am assuming that most of the population is to the south... at least I hope so...it looks like the population is over 100k but that may include other islands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruisestitch Posted April 9, 2021 #5 Share Posted April 9, 2021 At least one news outlet reported that those who will be allowed onto the cruise ships are required to have been vaccinated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonzoWCS Posted April 9, 2021 #6 Share Posted April 9, 2021 1 hour ago, kearney said: I posted this under the Royal Caribbean form, but thought I would note it here. Apparently the volcano on St Vincent is getting close to popping and they have ordered an evacuation of a northern section of the Island. RCCL has offered three cruise ships to help evacuate residents and take them to other islands. Carnival has also offered assistance. It appears Serenade of the Seas is on its way along with Reflection. check out marinetraffic.com if you want to track ships progress. Amazing what you can learn in real time.... Just checked it and it looks like Silhouette may be joining them, since it just left Barbados heading in that direction. It is really nice to see the cruise lines jumping in so quickly to offer assistance. I am hoping and praying that this is not going to be needed help... but apparently the dome has been rising and has reached the top of the crater. Here is a link to a news story about the situation a few hours ago.. news story on volcano Thanks for this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted April 9, 2021 #7 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Looks like Serenade is in the area now and 4 Celebrity ships nearby in Barbados. Carnival Paradise and Legend en route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl94 Posted April 9, 2021 #8 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Reflection is there now, Silhouette has turned back to Barbados 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Anne Posted April 9, 2021 #9 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Here's the press release from Royal Caribbean https://presscenter.rclcorporate.com/press-release/140/royal-caribbean-group-deploys-ships-to-assist-st-vincent-with-evacuation-of-residents/#:~:text=MIAMI – April 8%2C 2021 –,increasing activity in recent days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare puppycanducruise Posted April 9, 2021 #10 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Hoping for a safe outcome for all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kearney Posted April 9, 2021 Author #11 Share Posted April 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Host Anne said: Here's the press release from Royal Caribbean https://presscenter.rclcorporate.com/press-release/140/royal-caribbean-group-deploys-ships-to-assist-st-vincent-with-evacuation-of-residents/#:~:text=MIAMI – April 8%2C 2021 –,increasing activity in recent days. Thanks for posting this. I saw the original information on twitter... James van Fleet indicated that they were working on a press release. Really glad that they had empty ships in the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kearney Posted April 9, 2021 Author #12 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Looks like Reflection and Serenade are in port....and just in time..... reports of volcano skewing ash within the last few minutes... follow @NEMOSVG on twitter or @JamesVanFleet on twitter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl94 Posted April 9, 2021 #13 Share Posted April 9, 2021 8km high ash cloud EyiL-tdWgAAovCC.jfif 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted April 9, 2021 #14 Share Posted April 9, 2021 https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-volcano-erupts-thousands-on-caribbean-island-evacuate-2021-4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruisestitch Posted April 9, 2021 #15 Share Posted April 9, 2021 It is absolutely amazing that there happened to be empty ships nearby that could help out in this emergency. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare KmomChicago Posted April 10, 2021 #16 Share Posted April 10, 2021 (edited) So it looks like as many as seven cruise ships total are involved in the support at this time. I wonder if each of them is full of passengers in a holding pattern or whether most of those evacuated are going ashore in St. Lucia and Barbados. As of early this morning, Marine Traffic shows them all in the general area: Celebrity Reflection - either in port or just offshore near St. Vincent Serenade of the Seas - just offshore in St. Lucia Celebrity Apex, Edge, and Silhouette - at or just offshore in Barbados - not clear if Edge and Apex are involved in the evac or just riding out the pandemic. Silhouette appears to be docked. Carnival Legend and Paradise - just offshore near St. Vincent. It looks like Legend may have dropped evacuees in St. Lucia and returning for more. Apparently they are just ferrying folks as they don't have sufficient staff and supplies to serve as temporary accommodation, which makes sense. Edited April 10, 2021 by KmomChicago 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kearney Posted April 10, 2021 Author #17 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Looks like Serenade is in St Lucia right now... appears that they didn't leave until 11pm... I am guessing that the ash fall may have hampered the evacuation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl94 Posted April 10, 2021 #18 Share Posted April 10, 2021 All RCG ships are being evacuated from the area including Barbados due to dangerous ash and poor air quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadzone1003 Posted April 10, 2021 #19 Share Posted April 10, 2021 On 4/8/2021 at 6:09 PM, cruisestitch said: At least one news outlet reported that those who will be allowed onto the cruise ships are required to have been vaccinated. That news outlet are a bunch of idiots. St. Vincent only received their first batch of covid vaccines 4 days ago. Most of these passengers are probably from the more rural area of the island plus the small towns near the volcano. Maybe, one or two are vaccinated?? If ash is raining down on you, covid is the least of your worries. Heck, the cruise lines, Royal Carribean, Celebrity, & Carnival can test their covid protocols on real live people, but I doubt any of these ships are sufficiently staffed to do a proper job. Just glad there were apparently sufficient number of empty cruise ships nearby to help out. Aren't alot of these ships have a bare minimum of around 100 crew members? Food may become a problem unless these ships are just used as transportation. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestLakeGirl Posted April 11, 2021 #20 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Deadzone, news outlets may be idiots, but that info about vaccinations was a quote from the nation’s prime minister, as seen on the video he made which you can see on Youtube 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Anne Posted April 11, 2021 #21 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Royal Caribbean President and CEO, Michael Bayley stated yesterday that the media reports requiring people to be vaccinated were not true. He said a negative test was required, not vaccinations. He also posted some great photos yesterday taken by Martina from Argentina in St. Vincent: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=219051323341717&set=pcb.219052803341569 Also, please keep the discussion on this thread about the La Soufrière Volcano on St. Vincent. Thanks so much! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl94 Posted April 11, 2021 #22 Share Posted April 11, 2021 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9458673/Only-St-Vincent-residents-whove-Covid-jabs-evacuated-cruise-ships-PM-announces.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Anne Posted April 11, 2021 #23 Share Posted April 11, 2021 47 minutes ago, BigAl94 said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9458673/Only-St-Vincent-residents-whove-Covid-jabs-evacuated-cruise-ships-PM-announces.html Quote from Mr. Bayley yesterday.... Michael Bayley Whatever happened to truth in Journalism. Media reports we only will evacuate vaccinated passengers from St. Vincent. We have stated that all passengers to be evacuated will need a negative Covid test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadzone1003 Posted April 11, 2021 #24 Share Posted April 11, 2021 2 hours ago, WestLakeGirl said: Deadzone, news outlets may be idiots, but that info about vaccinations was a quote from the nation’s prime minister, as seen on the video he made which you can see on Youtube Could only find edited quotes, but it sounds like the vaccinations are required if the cruise ships happens to drop off these passengers on other Caribbean islands. This sounds like the cruise ships may be stuck with these passengers unless they are only transporting them to other islands of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl94 Posted April 12, 2021 #25 Share Posted April 12, 2021 (257) Caribbean volcano eruption sparks mass evacuation in St Vincent - BBC News - YouTube 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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