COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND CLOSE QUARTERS
“Wherever there are large groups of people living together for days at a time, the risk of communicable GI and respiratory infections is significant”
One of the most enjoyable aspects of liveaboard dive boats, cruises and group dive travel is the social environment. You can meet some terrific people with diverse backgrounds and sit around in the evenings sharing stories of the day’s adventures and previous great dives. Some of the new friendships may last long past the time spent at sea. Unfortunately, with the good may come the bad – and sometimes the ugly. Communicable diseases can be passed among people who share confined living spaces such as those found on cruise ships, liveaboards and commercial aircraft.
You would have to be living in a media vacuum to have missed the large number of reports of disease outbreaks on cruise ships in the past several years. Some were
