Originally Posted by
as219
What's strange is that we did our Paradise cruise about a week after this accident happened. We were in transit to Vietnam when it occurred. On the boat, some other passengers mentioned an accident that had happened the week before, but until your post, I didn't know it involved Paradise. Frankly I'm glad we didn't know; it would have just made us nervous.
FWIW, we felt completely safe the entire time of our cruise.
When we were on the Phoenix cruise, I saw the extremely nice paradise ships and called Juergen to ask him how much they were. Only then I came to know what had happened and that Juergen avoids Paradise. His requirement is a permanent crew as frequent changes are a safety risk.
By the way the accident happened on the small feeder boat.