Disney Cruise adds pool lifeguards after drownings
Disney Cruise Line has quietly been adding lifeguards to its employee rolls following two recent deaths of children in unsupervised pools.
There were no lifeguards on duty when a six-year-old from Florida died on the Carnival Victory last month, or when a 13-year-old from Missouri drowned in four feet of water at Disney’s Pop Century Resort in March.
The pools did note that guests swim at their own risk.
Carnival today told TravelMole that it does not have plans to add lifeguards.
Like most land-based hotels and resorts, however, it conspicuously notes that there is no llifeguard on duty, and requires that parents be with their children in its pools at all times.
A parent and other family members were in fact at the pool on the Victory when the toddler died.
By Cheryl Rosen, Editor TravelMole US
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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