shawn o neal from budget travel magazine. good morning. good morning to you. do you get an uptick in terms of the increasing numbers on problems like this. statistics show it s been up over the past eight years of viruses in particular and freak incidents but overall it s very safe to go cruising. out of 14 million passengers who cruise in a typical year 20,000 will come down with a virus. norwegian dawn, seven-story wave but no one was killed so it s very safe to be cruising. what are these waves? these are extreme waves, sort of appear out of nowhere out of the ocean usually in sets of three created by storm energy that comes into the water. no prediction. no predicting but cruise ships are driving into these waves ford to be safe so it s at the front of the ships you see this incident after incident it