On November 15, 2023, we wrote a couple of thirty year-old crew member on the MSC Seascape who went overboard over two weeks in the past whereas employed on the MSC cruise ship after crusing from Miami on a Caribbean cruise. The USA Coast Guard deployed two rescue vessels and a helicopter to seek for the overboard ship staff who couldn’t be positioned.
The MSC Seascape, Like All Different Cruise Ships in MSC’s Fleet Aside from the MSC Meraviglia, Has No Lifesaving Auto-MOB System Put in
There isn’t a indication that the MSC Seascape has a state-of-the-art man overboard (MOB) system which might mechanically detect, by way of movement detection, radar and infra-red expertise, when somebody goes over the rails and may observe the particular person within the water even at night time. With out such a system, it’s exceedingly tough to seek for an individual within the water, particularly at night time.
In 2017, we reported that MSC Cruises introduced that it had put in a state-of-the-art man overboard system on the MSC Meraviglia and was planning to deploy related techniques throughout its fleet of cruise ships.
Again in 2017, MSC Cruises indicated that it developed an “clever video capturing and evaluation system” in collaboration with “safety expertise specialists, Bosch and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.” The Swiss-based cruise line introduced that it has examined the brand new man overboard system on the corporate’s latest ship which debuted in June (2017). MSC reported that “via over 25,000 hours of video evaluation, intensive software program testing and steady algorithmic updates, the system has now reached a confirmed accuracy stage of 97%.”
The MOB information and pictures are analyzed by two separate and unbiased picture processing techniques which considerably decrease false alerts. “As soon as the alarm is activated in case of an overboard, an acoustic sign and lightweight will notify the ship’s safety officer, in a central safety room, who can instantly retrieve and assessment the photographs and information and instantly notify the bridge to start rescue efforts,” in response to Seatrade Cruise Information. MSC Cruises introduced MSC Meraviglia is “fitted with an built-in video surveillance system to optimize safety monitoring on board the ship and which can enable, amongst different options, for the speediest intervention within the unlikely occasion an individual or object falls overboard.”
In July 2019, a cruise visitor in her 40’s went overboard from the MSC Meraviglia however was promptly rescued after the auto MOB alerted the crew that she went overboard. Sadly, over six years later MSC has nonetheless not put in this profitable computerized MOB system on any of its twenty-one different cruise ships, together with the MSC Seascape from which this newest crew member disappeared.
Vishnu Vardhan Cheelam – The Newest Lacking Crew Member From a MSC Cruise Ship
The crew member is known as Vishnu Cheelam and is survived by his mom, Laxmi, and sisters, Diyva and Rani. The household lives in India.
Vishnu labored for MSC as a cleaner. He final spoke together with his household shortly earlier than he disappeared from the ship, They described him as being in good spirits, trying ahead to returning residence in February. They talked concerning the progress of the brand new household residence which has been underneath building for a couple of months. Vishnu misplaced his father at a younger age (age 5) and his household considers him to be the “man of the home.” He supplies monetary help to his mom on a month-to-month foundation.
MSC Refuses to Cooperate with the Household
The household contacted me after MSC refused to supply them with info surrounding his disappearance from the cruise ship. After telling his sister that he was misplaced at sea, MSC has refused to supply the household with a duplicate of his employment contract and collective bargaining settlement (CBA) and even return his private results from his cabin. MSC has not paid his excellent wages and $1,500 in money was taken from Vishnu’s cabin. MSC additionally refuses to supply the household with a duplicate of CCTV photos of him or present statements from eye witnesses explaining why this difficult working ship worker went overboard.
Vishnu’s household is emotionally devasted by Vishnu’s disappearance to not point out the shoddy means that MSC has responded to this tragedy. The development of the household residence has stopped whereas the household faces an unsure future. They’ve been supplied with no solutions to the main points of what occurred to their beloved member of the family. They’ve obtained no wages or work advantages from MSC and even the gesture of Vishnu’s modest private results from his cabin on the cruise ship.
MSC Lacks Primary Procedures When Crew Disappear From Their Ships
Nineteen folks have gone overboard from MSC cruise ships since 2006. You’d assume {that a} main company would have procedures in place to speak with members of the family who’ve misplaced a beloved one at sea. Conserving an overboard crew member’s wages and private results and forcing a grieving household to retain a lawyer is despicable conduct if not tantamount to fraud. MSC’s lack of institutional procedures in its claims workplace and on its ships when a crew member goes overboard creates a possibility for unscrupulous ship staff to pilferage a lifeless worker’s belongings and shore-side claims managers to disregard grieving members of the family.
MSC has demonstrated an entire lack of primary civility by ignoring this household – it has chosen to not even talk a primary expression of compassion to Vishnu’s grieving mom or sisters.
Assist Us Assist This Household
That’s the reason I’ve began a GoFundMe petition to attempt to assist the Cheelam household as they wrestle to cope with this devastating loss. (We’re dealing with this case and organizing the donation petition strictly on a professional bono foundation. 100% of the cash raised will go on to Vishnu’s household).
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December 9, 2023 Replace:
Boing Boing revealed an article about this newest overboard from a MSC cruise ship and this GoFundMe effort:
