Raleigh, NC - A 4-year-old boy died and a 6-year-old boy was revived and taken to a North Carolina h

FILE - In this May 8, 2013, file photo, people pause to look at Norwegian Cruise Line s new ship, Norwegian Breakaway, on the Hudson River, in New York. A 4-year-old child died after being pulled unresponsive from a swimming pool on the Norwegian Breakaway, off the coast of North Carolina on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, cruise line and Coast Guard officials said. Crew members were able to revive a 6-year-old boy also found in the pool. He was airlifted to a hospital, where his condition was unknown. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Raleigh, NC - A 4-year-old boy died and a 6-year-old boy was revived and taken to a North Carolina hospital after both were pulled from a cruise ship swimming pool off the state s coast Monday, squirt neigborhood cruising guide according to officials who offered few additional details Tuesday.
After extensive efforts, the younger child could not be revived, the Facebook post said. We extend our deepest sympathies to the family during this extremely difficult time and are providing full assistance and support.
It was unclear whether the boys were related. The survivor was flown to CarolinaEast Medical squirt neigborhood cruising guide Center in New Bern with his grandmother and a nurse from the Norwegian Breakaway. The boy was later transferred to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Hospital spokeswoman Chris Mackey said Tuesday that the boy s parents did not want the boy s condition shared with the public.
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Norwegian Cruise Line spokeswoman AnneMarie Mathews declined to specify at which pool the children were found. She also declined to say whether the children signed into care at Splash Academy or were supervised by their family.
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The ship is based in New York and was headed to Florida on an itinerary that then had it headed to the Bahamas, according to Norwegian s website. The ship was docked in Port Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday morning, port spokeswoman Rosalind Harvey confirmed.
There have been multiple squirt neigborhood cruising guide drownings on cruise ships in the recent past, said Finklehoff, who believes cruise ships should assign lifeguards to their pools. They know that the pool deck is a very distracting area. They re selling drinks, there s activities going on, and people can be distracted. That includes parents watching children.
I really feel very badly, for this preventable loss of life. There was a similar drowning of a young child only a few months ago on a Carnival Cruise ship. Unfortunately, outside of Disney Lines, the cruise companies don't have any lifeguards assigned to their swimming pools. I was just on a Holland-America cruise, and basically, one uses the swimming pool, at their own risk. However, it doesn't squirt neigborhood cruising guide excuse the parents/grandparents, from not exercising closer supervision over their children, especially in the swimming pool. Young children, especially have to be closely squirt neigborhood cruising guide watched, at all times. I saw a despicable incident on the cruise ship that I was on, when I witnessed some brainless young Mother holding her young child near the top of the railing for a better look at the ocean; another brainless young Mother got off the elevator in a hurry, while she left her young child behind. The child was standing in the area, between the elevator door and the landing!