The ship didn´t want to rescue

Men died with dehydration and heatstroke.
Graphic by ctv.ca

According to BBC the American cruise company has said it deeply regrets that one of its ships sailed past the dying men. But it didn´t not enough.


Eighteen-year-old Adrian Vasquez,  a Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift in the Pacific and watched two companions die, is suing the owners of a cruise ship that sailed past. He has filed a lawsuit in Florida alleging negligence by Princess Cruises.
The lawsuit includes testimony from two cruise ship passengers who said they saw the boat and reported it to a member of staff.
This the human interested news, and we can wait there will be one interesting real precedent.

Young man Vasquez and his friends set out in their three-metre-long open fishing boat the Fifty Cents from the port of  Panama´s Rio Hato in February, and were on their way back after their catch, when the engine failed. After 16 days one passenger of Princess Cruises , Judy Meredith, saw the boat through a spotting telescope.