So the Zaandam announced it was checking passengers, health and travel etc. The Zaandam was boarding passengers a week before the US gvt said citizens should not go on cruises and subsequently grounded all cruise ships. So many ports and planes refused to have these people who were sick or had been sick and had definitely been in contact with many people with Covid, it was an expensive way of getting them home, but it had to be done. What they did was get together with other cruise lines and those going to South America, took the South American ones, those going to the Phillipines, took those people and so on. Review Do you know how all the crew and passengers eventually got home after the Zaandam had gone from port to port, discharging passengers and crew in places that would have them, where there were planes willing to take them and there were still a lot of people left? With only two doctors aboard and few medical supplies to test for or treat COVID-19, and with dwindling food and water, the ship wanders the oceans on an unthinkable journey. Zaandam becomes a top story on the news and is denied safe harbor everywhere. Within days, people aboard Zaandam begin to fall sick. There is an Indonesian laundry manager who's been toiling on Holland America cruise ships for thirty years, sending his monthly paycheck to his family back home. There is an Argentine psychologist taking this trip to celebrate her sixty-fourth birthday with her husband, though she finds herself fretting in her cabin on day one, trying to dismiss her fears of what she's hearing on the news. And it would be safe.Īmong the travelers there is a retired American school superintendent on a dream vacation with his wife of fifty-six years, on a personal quest to see Machu Picchu. The cruise line had said the voyage (three weeks around the South American coastline to see some of the world's most stunning natural wonders and ancient ruins) would carry on as scheduled, with no refunds. But that was oceans away, and escaping to sea at the ends of the earth for a few weeks seemed like it might be a good option. There was concern about the virus on the news, and it had already killed and sickened passengers on other Holland America ships. Most passengers were older than sixty-five. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers-Americans, Europeans and South Americans, plus 600 crew members. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. This riveting narrative thriller takes readers behind the scenes with passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead. The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway-COVID-19-days before the world shut down in March 2020.
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