A photograph taken this week on a Caribbean cruise ship quickly gained widespread attention but it wasn’t of a pink-sand beach, a zip-lining adventure or an onboard skydiving simulator. It was of a woman standing on a balcony railing of her stateroom on one of the world’s largest cruise ships — posing for a selfie. Another passenger aboard the ship, Allure of the Seas , a Royal Caribbean ocean liner that is the size of an aircraft carrier , had taken the photo of the woman while they were en route to Labadee, Haiti , and shared it with cruise ship employees. Royal Caribbean did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday but it said in a statement to other news media outlets that the woman and her companion were removed from the ship and had been banned for life.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2019 00:44 UTC