My family went on a similar cruise in August of 1995 to celebrate my father's 75th birthday and my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. The NCL Dreamward, captained by one Captain Odd Strom, left New York for Bermuda and took us and 1200 other passengers into the path of Hurricane Edwardo. Attempting to outrun the storm by cruising east past Cape Cod, the good captain determined that the Dreamward was capable of ‘rounding’ the NE quadrant of the storm and sailing into clearer waters to the south. His error in judgment resulted in 3 days of hurricane conditions, the total disruption of anything resembling normal services and numerous injuries to passengers and crew including my father suffering a broken neck in a fall in his cabin. Fortunately, he survived to live another 12 years, albeit in a significantly diminished capacity.
We sadly refer to that voyage as The Spa Cruise, in which everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE lost weight. We arrived in Bermuda 2 days behind schedule with the incredulous Bermudians amazed that we were not all lost at sea. Believe me when I tell you, there were many moments when I thought that this was our likely fate as well.
Thank you, NCL.
Oddly enough, I did a search for those terms (norwegian cruise line dreamward eduardo) and got a bunch of ‘findlaw’ links.
I’d laugh if it didn’t mean people like your father were actually seriously injured.