Royal Caribbean isn’t taking any possibilities in terms of climate following its nightmare cruise right into a hurricane drive storm earlier this month, reducing Anthem of the Seas’ newest voyage brief to keep away from a storm off the mid-Atlantic seaboard.

The cruise ship large stated Saturday that it was intently watching a “large storm” off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, making the choice to move again to its homeport in Cape Liberty, New Jersey instantly to keep away from the storm and supply company “with a comfortable journey back home”. An replace on Monday stated Captain was following the corporate’s new storm avoidance coverage and that the choice was made after the Captain consulted with shoreside consultants.

#AnthemoftheSeas will head again to Cape Liberty instantly to keep away from a extreme storm & present company with a snug journey again residence.

— RCLcorp (@RCLcorp) February 27, 2016

As you’ll recall, Royal Caribbean discovered itself in some scorching water earlier this month after the Anthem of the Seas with greater than 6,000 individuals on board sailed into the a hurricane-force storm off the Cape Hatteras that broken a part of the ship’s propulsion and left passengers shaken as they took to social media to put up in regards to the nightmare situations.

Royal Caribbean has insisted that the storm in that case was worse than forecasted, however nonetheless the corporate stated it recognized gaps in its planning system that will be addressed to stop the same prevalence sooner or later. Within days of the occasion, Royal Caribbean made strikes to strengthen its storm avoidance coverage, supposedly including shoreside assets at its Miami headquarters to offer further steering to our ships’ captains.

But marine charts from this previous Saturday, it appears Royal Caribbean’s choice to chop the newest cruise brief could have been out of an abundance of warning or maybe to keep away from the inevitable bad publicity that will include any Royal Caribbean ship crusing in any storm in the meanwhile.

A 24 hour forecast chart issued Saturday evening by the National Weather Services Ocean Prediction Center predicted a comparatively modest 993 mb low over the Great Lakes shifting ENE with gale drive situations forecast off the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast by Sunday night.

“What Storm? The low moving across the Great Lakes was forecast to produce near gale to gale conditions from Hatteras northward (mostly 30-40 knots). Might be a bit rough but hardly storm conditions,” marine meteorologist and ship routing skilled with Ocean Weather Services, Fred Pickhardt, commented to gCaptain.

In different Anthem of the Seas information, Royal Caribbean stated Monday that about 10 company per day have been reporting signs of norovirus through the cruise, however the firm insists that the outbreak didn’t influence the choice to return to port early.