We approved the letter (and) went down to the dock and talked to everyone.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

This dock ... is going to cost in the vicinity of $50,000. ... There is certainly an economic incentive that would put the brakes on this if he was not confident in his title.

It's very rare that we would see an outbreak on consecutive cruises. The company has an excellent protocol for dealing with outbreaks like this, (but the Mercury staff) were not real successful in implementing some of their own protocols.

Typically, this is a fecal-oral infection that is spread from hand to mouth (because) people are not good hand washers. Especially on a cruise like this, you have a lot of hand-contact surfaces. You don't go on a cruise and sit in your cabin.

Whenever I go to the dock and look at the horizon, I am on the other side. If I see a boat on the ocean, it pulls me like a cord . . . like a belt pulling my sides, and I don't know where I am, I cannot think of anything else. . .