995 the summer that witnessed one of the worst crimes of the 20th century the massacre of thousands of bosnian serb. Special coverage of the 25th anniversary of the srebrenica genocide. It was meant to be the cruise of a lifetime a luxury trip around new zealand to soak up the countrys natural beauty. But then disaster struck. Ah Cruise Ship Passengers were trapped in the middle of a volcanic eruption on wife island. Same the death and suffering confronted witnesses that something there that i never thought id ever say and something i have i never have to see again what i want to east investigates how a dream holiday turned into a deadly nightmare. On december full last year the ovation of the citys sit sile from sydney for new zealand. It was paid crew season and thousands of australians have bought tickets for one of the last trips before christmas. On board the Royal Caribbean cruise was adelaide lawyer gavin dello his wife lisa and her 15 year old daughter zoe hosking. A really long toward tour. Of a preacher all global and regarding sure it should be. A boss trial airline new zealand. Also on the ovation of the seas was sydney family the lang fitz mom and dad. Christine and anthony and they attain age children jacey and when. There were lots of families taking i suppose an early christmas or a lead into their Christmas Holidays and paid a lot of money they planned for their sake and maybe from work their mindset is i can let them look after me. One of the highlights offered to passengers was a day trip to visit volcano. They were provided with a bright show but was branded with Royal Caribbean branding they would have been provided with a ticket also branded with Royal Caribbean branding and they were told in the brochure that all they needed to do if theyre attending this show was to wear inquiries shoes. The brochure promised tourists could get close to the drama gas masks help you get new boring steam vents bubbling pits of mud hot volcanic streams and the amazing like of steaming acid. They were told to think about whether they were a carrier with doing a strenuous walk people in wheelchairs swear told that it probably wasnt a good idea for them to go on the island but generally or there were told is this was an adventurous fun thing to do and just a way enclosures what i told about the reese and the risk of an eruption nothing. Absolutely nothing. Tourism new zealand promoted white island to a strength in travel agents as one of the countries he didnt james. What island is an active volcano its a cone volcano its the top of all kind that kid would draw at school its a typical regularly erupting active volcano the different thing about what island as most of its underwater so the tip of the island only was poking out through the ocean. More than 18000. 00 people visited the island each year. It would be Something Like a few pictures going to mars the landscape so make the colors a real person and different at such a harsh looking form and its effect of you know things are always changing jobs always sound to send stuff you know it was just surreal really awesome awesome but. When you actually land on the island and you walk into the crater that of the volcano youre actually walking right into the throat of an active volcano that is a ruptured frequently in the last several decades. In 2016 scientists got a warning of just how dangerous an eruption on white island could be. So there was an eruption in 2016 it was at night. It was a similar option and that it had a column up in the air it produced a surge out across the ground probably through quite a lot of rock and ballistics but there was nobody on the island thats the big difference. It was very clear that if people had been on that island at that time in 2016 it would have been very hard to survive and we put that on our bulletins as our main communication. Mechanism afterwards to make that really clear. My personal point of view is they shouldve stopped tourist activities particularly in terms of landing on the island. Night last year the volcanic activity on the island increased on december 3 the government body that monitors white island said the volcano maybe entering a period where eruptive activity is more likely than normal. We had raised the alert level to level 2 thats the highest level it can be at but its not erupting. Thats because we could see tremor in the volcano increasing over those those months and we could also see some increases in that gas that were monitoring at the volcano indicating that and rest was up do you think if we havent heard now and that there was a level 2 reese he wouldnt have gone on for. One its true. Has he been one of the reasons so. The roomie dodger owes a lot of. Courtrooms of this railroad to die in jail. On the morning of december 9 several to a groups were heading to what island new zealand residence jeff hopkins and his daughter little drive to fuck a town or the mortgage point for to is to the volcano. Something ive always been interested in and dad went when he was younger so it was amazing it was a faster together. The trip due to leave it 10 am was run by a well known group called white island to it which was the only operator taking people to the island by boat. We checked in. This crime or signed in gave mexican details etc received a boarding. Ass which was a metal cone and then from there just across the road and whited by the boat for the crew to start loading. Jeff in the line it can be seen here on the wharf whiting to get on the white island to his boat the feigning the video was filmed by brazilian tourist alice sandro calif mn. Yeah were just taking a camera and just feel me everything you know like a blog or blog and like these. Things. Alessandra was on the to with his wife eileen e. Yeah i was like just excited to get there and to see her like hardy. When we 1st scar on the island there was a brief safety briefing and it world was very very brief it was just you know dont touch anything and take anything stay on the path and stay in between the talk adds that was kind of about it. I was sun dried kept filming is the 2 a god warned about getting too close to the steam. Are great if were going to ask you for your own oh here heres one of your actions here it really is a bit of bob i was like i dont think i should because i dont know what youre going to be youre a very very. I think theyre going to go before this thing right here in your victory if you move your graph. The walking track crossed a shallow creek. The group hiked towards the crater like the highlight of the 2 are right in the center of the island. While they were there laurie photographed a helicopter run by volcanic landing on the island with a pilot and 4 passengers. For a few minutes as allison drew headed back to the jetty he filmed another white island to his boat anchored in the bag. It had brought 38. 00 passengers from the ovation of the sea including gavin dello his wife lisa and her daughter zoe among their 2 a guides would typically monkey kill sea where corn and hide in marshall inman. As the group from the phoenix left the island they took some final photos looking up towards the crater like. At one point the captain said if you look in the distance right against the steam cloud of the credit like you can see some dots those dots were the other top party so he pointed them out there were people up there on the credit like. At 11 minutes past to the phoenix and its passengers were about to head back to the mainland when the volcano erupted. As i turned around i could see over the top of the canopy as i looked up just this enormous cloud of black and bright white stayman ash. Instantly i knew it was up to. These 1st pitches were filmed by the passengers as they bite headed away from the island. The eruption was short it only lasted a minute or 2 it was a steam eruption it generated a column of ash and hot water and steam straight up and then led into a surge of hot steam and ash moving outwards across the ground it also looks like it had some flying rocks some of what we call ballistics coming through the air as well. The system that exploded the 100th also would have been a 2 or 300. 00 degrees or more. On the phoenix who are quickly turned to horror. There was a rolling ash cloud that came up to the top of a cliff and as it tumbled over the cliff and as it tumbled down to the cliff kind of came out and started to come out to the city that completely obscured the whole island i never seen anything anything like a. 1000000. Dollar. Man. Im sure how the. 47 papal including 38 passengers from the innovation of the say was still on the island after escaping the ash cloud the captain of the phoenix turned back to the jetty to help. A little more. On our. Young. Woman. The 1st thing i could see was one person in the water swimming out to that boat then i could see others that were gathered around the jetty where wed gone on and off from where we landed on the island. To look at all the home i was doing the next thing they saw was the mangled volcanic a helicopter that had been blown off its landing pad. At that stage the crew whod lowered them flight aboard and started a rescue mission to pick people up. One of its that i had spoken quite closely with she came in to get some 1st aid kits and me and dad went up and asked to help us have office. Its difficult its and she said that she had all the help she can get shes got multiple babbit dont. As injured survivors were brought on to the feign x. The crew asked passengers not to fail. When the 1st people got aboard like most of them was really really hard. We start to help them to clean that. They were feeling. Like they saw be posts quiet very quiet some people screaming. Some peoples crying. First thing that i saw was a survivor came on the back of a boat. And she was just. Like ive never seen. Her for. Some just into shorts so theyre our. Legs were burned and really all we could do was just trying call them with fresh water. It was a case of keeping people from going out of consciousness people going in shock. One of the 1st people brought on board was Kelsey Waghorn the white island who is god who survived with terrible. She had severe burns to hair hands her legs church i guess her clothing quite a few people that had very i guess protective clothing on mostly just ban on their faces and their hands which were not as severe as those that had burns over their whole body the most severe burns were ones that had no skin left it was just kind of tripped off them like wax. And thats something i never i never thought id ever see and something i hope i never have to see again. With more than 20 victims loaded on board the phoenix quickly became crowded. Jeff was on the front of the boat with american lauren yuri she was on her honeymoon with her husband matthew they were both seriously injured but survived she was in so much pain she was burned pretty much across most of her body she was then started to drift in and out of consciousness she really became my my so focus she asked me not to leave her and i promised i wouldnt. And that became i was going to break that promise as well as stayed. There are the moments that everyone asked me socalled so that they could do was hug their. Trying to. Wire up with. Arms and nobody. It could get. To make them. I mean. People on the mainland saw the eruption but they had no idea of the horror that was unfolding. As news of the eruption spread a group of helicopter pilots who regularly took visitors to white island a remarkable rescue operation it was about quarter past home my phone rung in another part local morgue. Rang me and sit up on the block it was blown up. Toms pass mark lawler jumped in one helicopter. Tom and another pilot jason hill got into another. So. They say in the by road to ruin a pilot team it was in his hangout when he heard about the eruption. Of the face to craft the force ready to fly a plane and one of my guys we got able. They didnt know it is they flew out there but they were 20 people still on the island some badly injured others already did. We landed behind the helicopter that was blown off the page. So that was really we know it uses the say as being quite a series of me so. We going to got to the victims started helping them putting on gas mask giving them water putting them in the recovery position making those companies mccain just reassuring them that way. To help and we are going to get you off the oil and in youre not allowed. The conditions they were working in wood toxic. With i guess moscows really hard to breath almost impossible to prove just rw rw shop. And if. You know you always would stop. And some places it was going of a foot deep of ish. That youre running through. A quite eerie is the volcanic could still say it was the way. It was still raining ash on us. The pilots carried a total of 12 people on to 3 helicopters. I know one person that i carried that was a lawyer when i was caring but by the time i got to the helicopter all i had a suspicion that they may have passed away or told mark and marks just carry on and just to put them in the. Obviously i felt should really concerned for the 2 survivors that we had on board they were in good shape. What condition of a couple of the chopper one of their passengers sadly had passed away on the flight deck and the other one was. A bad way. Despite the risk of another eruption tom stayed on the island to search for more survivors. Finally search and rescue paramedics arrived by helicopter and landed near the jetty. Talk to immediately explain to them we price the bodies that we had eye victims that i knew of it but on. The safe i didnt know if anyone else was on the oil and that point i just could just add in the 4 that i that wed come across. At that point that we have been instructed to leave the on. This or this. Is. On board the cruise ship the ovation of the seas families will waiting for their loved ones to return from the day trip to white island. Hours passed before they found out what had happened. Their accounts of people here only found out about this tragedy through a panicked friend call from a Family Member back in history and saying turn on that. And look at whats happened on what island. 5 heard about the Staff Members did not communicate and when they are confronted about it. The Family Members just sit in a room for an extended amount of time with no information and i stood precious albas that i could have been using to see their Family Members in hospital before a lot of some possible way. Gavin dello his wife lisa and her daughter zoe were among those who hadnt returned to the cruise ship. As we got away tonight at least 27 people are missing after a volcano erupted off the coast of new zealand one person has been confirmed. We will not treat. You. And i say the new zealands developed high you know explode and then. Was almost all i saw. For instance trying to. Do all these marble far. We didnt cannot answer thats right sorry knew there was some regard. To the north hospital. By offering could be a factor belmore. To someone who is really wrong. Serves a viral sort of. Official you know dinner for. They were bodies still left on the island the effort to rescue them was to lie because of the use of another eruption. Among the bodies recovered was given delos step daughter zoe hosking. Wife lisa had survived but was badly injured. In new zealand work safe in the coroner of both looking into the tragedy but their investigations could take more than a year. Theres no way in this world that any of us would have put people on the island if wed fought for a moment. Not one milicic of the thing. The result us. 19 of the 21 people who died were from the ovation of the sea. Sydney lawyer to use if is representing passengers and Family Members who believe the cruise operator Royal Caribbean didnt do enough to warn its guests this particular volcano was at a level. At the very least Royal Caribbean which held itself out to be responsible for this too i should have been monitoring and communicating with participants as to the risk and giving them the choice and informed choice to decide not to go because of this risk how much responsibility is on the participant in the 2 or to do their own research to find out how safe or unsafe something needs i would say none and thats because they are relying on this company to do that for them theyre handing over money their hard earned money for somebody else to be responsible for that. For many families the grave is still very raw. From a larger new situation bring our moms have through these childishly you. Talk. So when you next scripts are trying to go through. Things you just talk on the phone why shrink all your. Sandwiches to a little time or a guy. Tens of thousands of filipino nurses a saving american lives during the cold 19 that they came to the u. S. 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