Wednesday 5th Sept...emergency re-direction
Half way through our sea day the Captain made an announcement that he was re-directing the ship to meet up with a boat from Saryba, Java, which would collect one of our passengers who needed more intense medical care than Majestic Princess could perform.
The ship had been sailing south from Singapore but changed course to sail west to be closer to the coast-line in order to roundaue which the pilot from Java. About 2 hours later the ship had almost stopped, but the engines were keeping the ship in a stationary position about 12 kms off the coastline in what we realized was, deeper water. The depth of the water became more shallow any closer to the coast. For what was intended to be a 2 hour wait turned out to be nearly four hours before the pilot boat sped out to meet us and took on our passenger. We later heard the passenger's (not sure if male of female) health had improved and stabilized in ICU on Java.
Once the passenger was safely disembarked and the pilot boat had moved off, the ship headed south again with all engines at full speed to make up for the lost time spent with the medical emergency. A new course had been set to enable the ship to still arrive in Darwin at the original time. This course will take us past an erupting volcano and Komodo Island.
Pilot boat which came out to collect the unwell passenger.
Map of ship whist we waited for pilot.
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