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- U.S. Coast Guard Gives Update on Cruise Port Closure
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- PortMiami channel closed to cruise traffic for nearly 12 hours due to investigation
- Coast Guard: All Vessels Must Stay 900 Feet Away
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The video was released late Monday by a personal injury law firm in Miami that told NBC6 they are planning a lawsuit against both companies involved. Cruise ship passenger Nick Pirozzi said, "I received a text message that ships were going to be delayed for 3 hours." But it was much longer. CBS News Miami's Chelsea Jones spoke to Russel Ramirez, who was with Dominguez and Fernandez hours before the crash. FWC says 29-year-old Angel Dominguez of Hialeah was on board the boat and was rescued and rushed to the Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition. 27-year-old Christian Fernandez of Cutler Bay was also on the boat and did not survive.
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CBS News Miami's Peter D'Oench spoke with Jean-Noel, who was a deckhand on board the Ferry. His attorney Marc Schwartz said Noel had been a deckhand on board the Ferry for the past 4 years and was injured while trying to help rescue Dominguez and because of the impact. The FWC report says the boat operator stayed on the scene and tried to help the victim. The 32-foot boat is now at an FWC site in North Miami and a CBS News Miami crew noticed that there are large cracks in the hull.
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"Unfortunately, that victim was deceased on the scene, and now, FWC will be handling the investigation." The vessel hit the ferry, which takes residents back and forth to Fisher Island, a Miami Fire-Rescue spokesperson told WTVJ. No vessel or person will be permitted to enter the safety zone without permission from the COTP or a designated representative.
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He told NBC6 he was supposed to board his cruise ship at 2 p.m., but it kept getting pushed back hour after hour. The man was pulled from the water by ferry workers, and he told them about his missing friend before he was taken to a hospital, the Miami Herald reported. During the 11 hour investigation and recovery, the United States Coast Guard established a temporary safety zone within 900 feet of the sunken vessel. A barge, tugboat, and numerous police vessels were at the scene with underwater divers.
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A Miami police dive team was called in, and the missing man was later found dead, the station reported. For Carnival guests that arrived to the terminal, letters were handed advising they would get a $20 per person onboard credit (OBC) for reimbustment for food while they waited to embark. Carnival Cruise Line sent out a text message scheduled to embark yesteday asking them to please do not proceed to the cruise terminal until advised. Other cruise lines were not as straight forward with communication, but eventually sent text and handed letters out at the terminal. Thirteen people were sent to the hospital after two boats collided in the waters off PortMiami Sunday, officials said. "We found the other victim underwater after about a five-minutes search," Sanchez told WTVJ.
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PortMiami channel closed to cruise traffic for nearly 12 hours due to investigation
At the other end of the cruise experience, incoming passengers were told not to go to the terminal. Smith said "we can see Miami from here" and the captain said it will take about two hours to arrive in the port when they get an all-clear. Along with offloading guests, the ships must also be provided with food and supplies, and do crew sign on and sign-offs. The ships are currently stacked up in a single file line for entry with Norwegian Escape, MSC Seascape, and Carnival Celebration. Norwegian Escape, MSC Seascape, and Carnival Celebration are underway and heading towards the sea buoy, where the harbor pilot will board the vessels and bring them up the North Channel.
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Both channels in PortMiami, North Harbor (cruise ship lane) and the South Channel (cargo lane) are now open to maritime traffic and are moving as scheduled. The Coast Guard received a call that a yacht had collided with a ferry vessel Pelican II around 4 to 5 a.m., according to spokesperson Ryan Estrada. By the time Coast Guard personnel arrived, the City of Miami Department of Fire-Rescue had rescued one person and recovered one body, he said. While access to the PortMiami was shut down for 11 hours, more than 15,000 passengers were stuck out at sea and more than 16,000 passengers were waiting to leave on cruise ships.
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Greg Chin, a spokesperson for Miami International Airport said MIA notified domestic airlines about the situation at the port, and they are waiving rebooking fees for cruise passengers affected by the situation at the port. An average of some 10,000 PortMiami cruise passengers use Miami International every day based on an annual total of 4 million. The investigation and subsequent salvage of the vessel involved shut down the North channel for hours, forcing cruise ships inbound to remain at sea. Both the North and South channels were closed for investigation and salvage operations.
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The three Miami-based cruise ships were kept offshore until the harbor reopened. During an investigation and removal of the vessel, the cruise ships were kept in a holding pattern with passengers biding their time, including some frantically trying to rearrange their flights. The cruise lines, to speed up the time between trips, asked guests to vacate their staterooms for the housekeeping staff to turn over the rooms for the next cruise.
“The Pelican II reported no damage, and we set up a security perimeter around Government Cut, essentially closing down the Port of Miami,” he said. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is attempting to determine what led up to the boat crash. While she understand these things happen, Dana said the cruise lines could have better handled the situation. Carnival Cruises said they continued to keep their guests updated throughout the day. Port of Miami was shut down for several hours, but reopened around 6 p.m.
Coast guard told NBC6 the collision involved the "Obelix” and the "Thriller,” which are both charter boats. The video is from a person who was on one of two tour boats on the water around Fisherman’s Channel back on February 11th. The firm's clients were visiting Miami from New York when they decided to enjoy a day on the water so they hopped on a speedboat at Bayside. A spokesperson for the firm also told NBC6 that the case highlights the need for wearing life jackets and using engine cut-off switches.
The website cruisemapper.com showed the Celebration ending an eight-day cruise to the southern Caribbean and scheduled to depart Sunday for a seven-day eastern Caribbean cruise. An early-morning boat crash Sunday off Miami resulted in the death of one boater and left another seriously injured. The U.S. Coast Guard has given PortMiami approval to reopen to marine traffic after it was shut down Sunday, following a collision between two vessels that killed one person.
The accident happened near Dodge Island, which has a row of cruise ship terminals. The U.S. Coast Guard closed the port while the investigation took place and crews worked to remove the sunken yacht from the waterway. More than 16,000 passengers that were returning to the port on three cruise lines were forced to wait at sea and about the same number of people waiting to board those ships were stuck in the terminal, CBS Miami reported.
MIAMI (WSVN) - Cruise ships in PortMiami encountered delays after a boat wreck that left a man dead and sent another to the hospital forced authorities to shut down the waterway for hours, sparking frustrations among passengers. The ferry crew successfully retrieved one person who was taken to the hospital in critical condition, the station reported. While being taken to the hospital, he told paramedics that his friend was still missing. Johnson was one of hundreds of passengers stuck in a sea of people at Port of Miami.
PortMiami said on Twitter late Sunday afternoon that the three ships were all scheduled to depart “no later than midnight” — six to eight hours late. A port spokeswoman said the closure disrupted travel plans for 33,000 passengers scheduled to arrive and depart Sunday on three ships. Nick Pirozzi told the station that he and thousands of other cruise ship passengers were stranded for hours without communication from the cruise line.
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