Trip Report Aqua Cat April 2022

[living4experiences]

Stomach flu...my doc told me there's really no such thing. It's food poisoning. Sorry you had to suffer. When those other guests tested positive, did the trip end early or did they isolate and you continued on? When I was on Aquacat last year, 3 crew were sick with covid and the trip ended early.

 

[uncfnp]

Often when referred to as “stomach flu” they mean viral gastroenteritis, a version of N/V/D that can be past from person to person.

 

[Norwegian Cave Diver]

Stomach flu...my doc told me there's really no such thing. It's food poisoning. Sorry you had to suffer. When those other guests tested positive, did the trip end early or did they isolate and you continued on? When I was on Aquacat last year, 3 crew were sick with covid and the trip ended early.

Trip continued. One lady had the opportunity to get off and took a small plane back to Nassau.
All of the Covid positive people were quarantined to their rooms. One wowan was seperated from her Covid Negative husband and bunked with another postive woman.

 

[drrich2]

All of the Covid positive people were quarantined to their rooms.

Was everyone required to get tested, only symptomatic people, or were people volunteering and acting under their own initiative?

 

[Norwegian Cave Diver]

Was everyone required to get tested, only symptomatic people, or were people volunteering and acting under their own initiative?

Didn’t seem to be any official requirement to be tested.

 

[drrich2]

So how did this sequence of events come about? Did people who'd felt sick do home test kits they'd brought with them and announce the results? Or did the boat staff strongly encourage anyone sickly looking or complaining of illness to get tested, and provide the tests?

Edited to fix 2 typo.s.

 

[Norwegian Cave Diver]

Captain provided and conducted the tests. They would have been available for anyone that wanted to be tested

 

[living4experiences]

Often when referred to as “stomach flu” they mean viral gastroenteritis, a version of N/V/D that can be past from person to person.

Ah yes...the dreaded norovirus common to boat travel with the masses.