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Nick Pisa

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
82 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

And he, in fact, contacted health authorities in the UK

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

himself to say, hey, hold on a minute.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

I was on board that same flight.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

What should I do?

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

And they've advised him to quarantine again for six weeks.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

And that's a long time.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

It's going to play

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

There's going to be a lot of pressure on people with their work life and also their personal life as well, isn't there?

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

Yeah, so it's fascinating speaking to him.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

A guy called Rui Senet, who was there to make a documentary about

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

And he joined the boat at Ushuaia, which is a South American port down in Argentina, on April the 1st.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

And he stayed on board for three weeks.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

And he was keen to stress that the environment, sorry, the hygiene conditions on board the ship were important.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

were fine and he had no problem with that.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

But what he said was worrying was the fact that when the first passengers started to feel ill, there was no lab on board that ship.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

And so they had no idea of what the first casualty died of, what the cause of death was.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

And he said that initially the captain gathered all the passengers together

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

no quarantining or no face masking or anything like that, and reassured them that the passenger who'd passed away, the Dutch man, the Dutch ornithologist, whose wife later died, had said, look, this is just natural cause.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

It's one of these things that happens at sea.

The Claire Byrne Show
Passengers from the MV Hondius have been evacuated

It's very sad, but there is nothing to be concerned about.