Cloud Ft Lauderdale to Lima 11/10-30/10

[BeeMinor]

15 hours ago, Silver Spectre said:

Has anyone seen this on the Expedition ships before, and refused to sign it. And does anyone have an opinion on the legality of the final sentence? I raise these questions in the context of the full T’s and C’s that apply when booking an SS cruise and which this document does not form a part.

 

While I have not seen this specific form on a Silversea ship, I recognize it in a general as a model release. In plain language by signing it you're agreeing that Silversea can use any photos or video footage taken of you however it wants, including in advertising materials, without payment. Typically if you do not sign your face is blurred out so you are not instantly recognizable if they use, say, a crowd shot.

 

At least in the US, it's not uncommon to see a sign at the entrance to a large public event like a food festival summarizing this as "filming is taking place on these premises and by entering you agree to be filmed." 

[Silver Spectre]

1 hour ago, BeeMinor said:

 

While I have not seen this specific form on a Silversea ship, I recognize it in a general as a model release. In plain language by signing it you're agreeing that Silversea can use any photos or video footage taken of you however it wants, including in advertising materials, without payment. Typically if you do not sign your face is blurred out so you are not instantly recognizable if they use, say, a crowd shot.

 

At least in the US, it's not uncommon to see a sign at the entrance to a large public event like a food festival summarizing this as "filming is taking place on these premises and by entering you agree to be filmed." 

Thanks for the response. I understand the form, however, it’s the final sentence that I am questioning, which seems to imply that by not signing it, you are still agreeing to it.

[BeeMinor]

5 minutes ago, Silver Spectre said:

Thanks for the response. I understand the form, however, it’s the final sentence that I am questioning, which seems to imply that by not signing it, you are still agreeing to it.

 

Agreed, that is oddly phrased. The "failure to do so" is particularly unclear as it could refer to either "not signing" or "not asking questions before signing." I would think it would have to be the latter.

[Stumblefoot]

6 hours ago, Silver Spectre said:

...not only had the ship run out of many beers but almost ran out of wine on the way Ft Lauderdale!

 

That’s a lot more serious than running out of berries.

[Silver Spectre]

Where is Colin when you need him, a ‘float’ of Zodiacs?

 

 

[Silver Spectre]

On second thoughts and given the current windy and choppy conditions it maybe a ‘soak’

[Silver Spectre]

Too much swell to make it ashore on Harbour Island yesterday, so a detour to a deserted Egg Island for a beach afternoon 

[Silver Spectre]

Arrived at Conception Island, 87F, breakfast on the back of La Terrazza, bliss!

 

[Silver Spectre]

About to enter the channel between Cuba and Haiti.

[Silver Spectre]

As close as we are going to get to Cuba

 

[Silver Spectre]

The beautiful beach on Conception Island

 

[Silver Spectre]

Following in the footsteps of Columbus, a day early though

 

[Perfectionistcruiser]

Much enjoying your comments and pictures, for which many thanks.

 

How are you finding the Expedition Team in terms of quality of presentations/lectures and their guest interaction around the Ship?

[Silver Spectre]

22 minutes ago, Perfectionistcruiser said:

Much enjoying your comments and pictures, for which many thanks.

 

How are you finding the Expedition Team in terms of quality of presentations/lectures and their guest interaction around the Ship?

We have only been to the initial briefing so far, lectures only really began today as our first sea day and are not our thing. All the interactions so far have been good. We actually have a very large complement, some 28, including 5 Ecuadorans who are being trained and their trainers, so the crew total is about 230 for about 210 guests.

[Silver Spectre]

Gorgeous Hunters Moonrise in the western Caribbean this evening. And two brown boobies following the ship all afternoon.  At the third attempt we bettered our second and third and won Trivia today.

Edited October 14, 2019 by Silver Spectre

[Silver Spectre]

It’s nice to see that the ‘Book of Manfredi’ is in evidence, both in the Library and Tor’s Observation Lounge. I wonder if any Venetians have received one yet, however it is rather heavy.

 

[Silver Spectre]

The twitchers guide so far

 

[Silver Spectre]

Out in the middle of nowhere and we are accompanied by dive bombing Masked Boobies

 

[Silver Spectre]

Peregrine Falcon

 

[Silver Spectre]

In transit Swallow

 

[spinnaker2]

The Byrds!!!

[Stumblefoot]

22 minutes ago, Silver Spectre said:

Peregrine Falcon

 

That’s amazing!  Seems unusual to see one at sea.

[Silver Spectre]

Providencia Island, was British, now Columbia.

 

Plover

 

Edited October 16, 2019 by Silver Spectre

[Silver Spectre]

One thing that is particularly annoying about this voyage is the number of non emergency announcements that are blasted directly into suites at ungodly hours, quite often just to inform guests that ‘oh! we have arrived’. Today we have had three between 7am and 7:30.

 

The briefings continue to stress that announcements are made via the TV channel, and that the TV should left tuned to the appropriate channel to hear them, which is then ignored.

 

The Internet was particularly slow yesterday afternoon and evening, hence only one photo from the lovely visit to Providencia Island.

 

Although we are not affected by this, a number of guests are annoyed that there are no snorkels or flippers onboard to accompany the extensive snorkelling programme. Apparently they failed to be delivered in Ft Lauderdale. What beggars belief is that the team didn’t go and buy some before we left!

Edited October 17, 2019 by Silver Spectre

[brimary]

Sorry to hear of the mishaps you are encountering.We have experienced similar noise problems early am on our recent Wind cruise.We unplugged the TV and asked Reception to delete our suite from messages prior to 9 am .It seemed to work no more wake up messages from Captain or CD!!