{"id":18791,"date":"2012-03-05T01:42:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18791"},"modified":"2021-02-16T23:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T04:50:25","slug":"mechanical-failure-on-boat-during-prince-harrys-sea-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/mechanical-failure-on-boat-during-prince-harrys-sea-trip","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Failure On Boat During Prince Harry&#8217;s Sea Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18793\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18793 \" title=\"prince-harry-islands\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/prince-harry-islands.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/prince-harry-islands.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/prince-harry-islands-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/prince-harry-islands-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Harry smiles as he arrives on Harbour Island on a Royal Bahamian Defence Force boat on March 4, 2012 in Nassau, Bahamas. The Prince is visiting the Bahamas as part of a Diamond Jubilee tour where he will be visiting Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Brazil as a representative of Queen Elizabeth II. (March 3, 2012 &#8211; Photo by Chris Jackson\/Getty Images Europe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The planned itinerary for HRH during his visit to The Bahamas included a \u2018sea-trip\u2019 with RBDF marines, which would allow HRH some relaxed time and the opportunity to share operational experiences with the marines while at sea.<\/p>\n<p>The sea trip was planned on a route from New Providence to Spanish Wells, Harbour Island and North Eleuthera mainland, with brief stops at each venue for meet and greet opportunities with the local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst en route to Spanish Wells in a convoy of four \u2018go-fast\u2019 vessels, the vessel on which HRH was embarked experienced some mechanical difficulties.\u00a0 \u00a0 HRH was transferred to a second vessel in the convoy which then continued on its route in accordance with the Defence Force&#8217;s contingency plans.<\/p>\n<p>As this mission was one which entailed critical time lines in order to fulfill pre-planned obligations, the safe and timely action taken allowed the convoy to continue and thus meet designated times at the various venues\u00a0 without further incident.<\/p>\n<p>The defective vessel was repaired at sea with the assistance of HMBS NASSAU, which was stationed in the area as a part of the contingency plan; and was therefore able to rejoin the convoy fifteen minutes later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst en route to Spanish Wells in a convoy of four &#8216;go-fast&#8217; vessels, the vessel on which HRH was embarked experienced some mechanical difficulties.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[96,46],"class_list":["post-18791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-boats","tag-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249973,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791\/revisions\/249973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}