SUPERSTAR VIRGO

Está mais que provado que os cruzeiros efectuados em navios de luxo, sem sempre são seguros.

100 passageiros deste luxuoso navio, sofrem e intoxicação alimentar.

Segundo notícias divulgadas na imprensa de Singapura, o luxoso navio Super Star Virgo, em cruzeiro entre Singapura e o Vietname, 100 passageiros foram acometidos de intoxicação alimentar.

O jornal The Singapore daily refere que a companhia  the Star Cruise company informou que os passageiros ficaram doentes depois de o Super Star Virgo ter atracado no Vietname.

As investigações ainda decorrem afim de apurarem a causa dos sintomas, incluindo diarreias, vómitos, dores de estomago e febre.

Após o regresso do navio a Singapura, na passada Sexta-Feira, contactos os passageiros eles descreveram a cena a bordo do navio como caótica.

Segundo declarações da passageira Cynthia Lim de 22 anos de idade, igualmente afectada, e que foi tratada a bordo nos cuidados intensivos, disse que a se comida tivesse sido comprada nas ruas do Viertname a culpa seria dos passageiros, mas não, a comida que provocou o caos, foi fornecida a bordo pela Star Cruises. 

SuperStar Virgo

 

 

SuperStar Virgo at Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand
Career
Name:	SuperStar Virgo
Owner:	Star Cruises
Operator:	Star Cruises
Port of registry:	Panama City, Panama
Ordered:	22 November 1995
Builder:	Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany
Cost:	$350 million
Yard number:	647
Laid down:	18 November 1996
Launched:	23 December 1998
Completed:	1 August 1999
Acquired:	2 August 1999
In service:	10 October 1999
Identification:	IMO number: 9141077
Status:	In service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Leo class cruise ship
Tonnage:	75,338 GT (gross tonnage)
Displacement:	8,530 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
Length:	268.60 m (881 ft 3 in)
Beam:	32.3 m (106 ft)
Draught:	7.90 m (25 ft 11 in)
Depth:	11.50 m (37 ft 9 in)
Decks:	13 (10 passenger accessible)
Installed power:	4 × MAN-B&W 14V48/60 diesels combined 58,800 kW
Propulsion:	Two propellers 3 thrusters
Speed:	25.5 kn (47.23 km/h; 29.34 mph) maximum 24 kn (44.45 km/h; 27.62 mph) service
Capacity:	1974 passengers (lower berths) 2800 passengers (all berths)
Crew:	1300

SuperStar Virgo is a Leo class cruise ship owned and operated by Star Cruises. She was built in 1999 by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.

Concept and construction

The SuperStar Virgo was ordered by Star Cruises on 22 November 1995 from the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany as the second ship of the Leo class, and the second newbuilding for Star Cruises. Like her sister ship SuperStar Leo, she was designed specifically for the Asian cruise market. The keel of the SuperStar Virgo was laid on 18 November 1996, and she was floated out of drydock on 23 December 1998. She was delivered to Star Cruises on 2 August 1999.

Service history

Following the lengthy transit from Papenburg to Singapore the SuperStar Virgo entered service on cruises from Singapore on 10 October 1999. On 24 April 2003 the SuperStar Virgo was relocated from Singapore to operate cruises out of Perth, Western Australia due to the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Southeast Asia.Initially the redeployment was planned to last only a one-month evaluation period, but due to the success of the cruises out of Australia the SuperStar Virgo was based in Perth until July 2003.

In 2004 the SuperStar Virgo became the sole "mega-ship", and the only purpose-built ship, in Star Cruises' fleet, when her sister SuperStar Leo was transferred to the fleet of Star Cruises' subsidiary Norwegian Cruise Line (newbuildings planned or ordered by Star Cruises after the SuperStar Virgo had either been cancelled or moved to the NCL fleet prior to delivery).

On 2 April 2008 the SuperStar Virgo relocated from Singapore to Hong Kong as her port of departure until 26 October 2008, the redeployment coinciding with the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.She was then returned to Singapore late October 2008 and resumed her current itinerary.

Decks and facilities

Only including decks and facilities accessible to passengers.

4. Medical center
5. Outside and inside cabins
6. Main dining room, Chinese restaurant (The Pavilion Room), outside and inside cabins
7. Casino, cafeterias, karaoke bar, reception, Chinese and Italian restaurants, showroom (lower level), promenade deck
8. Meeting rooms, cinema, shops, Japanese and Indian restaurants, showroom (upper level)
9. Suites, outside and inside cabins
10. Children's center, games arcade, sun deck, swimming pool, jacuzzi, suites, outside and inside cabins
11. Bridge, sundeck, outside and inside cabins
12. Observation lounge/nightclub, card room, mahjong room, library, beauty salon, saunas, gym, sundeck, swimming pool, buffet restaurant
13. Discothèque, deck bar, sundeck

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Para quem andou no mar durante 25 anos, fazer cruzeiros, mesmo em navios luxuosos, e nada baratos, não estão nos plano do articulista.

Infelizmente não é a primeira vez que acidentes com navios cruzeiros acontecem, que tudo é muito lindo é bem verdade, quando as coisas decorrem de forma normal, em caso de tragédia, é mesmo uma tragédia e as sonhadas férias num cruzeiro de luxo se torenam num pesadelo.

 

O articulista na sua casca de nóz.