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From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl.mil>
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Subject: Ship to Shore Ripoff?
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Date: 30 May 90 14:39:26 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 397, Message 10 of 12


In the news (and not just locally Philadelphia etc.) this week was a
cruise ship which got stuck on a sand bar off Cumberland County, NJ in
the Delaware Bay.  After the passengers were evacuated, word came from
them (reaching me via KYW news-radio in Phila.) that it wasn't all one
big happy pary on board.

Among the things they were irate about was being charged $15 a minute to
call anxious relatives.  Also, a line formed at the single phone available.