An inspection is underway after crews repaired the damage to the Ruby Princess cruise ship after it hit Pier 27 in SF while docking Thursday morning. Passengers are still waiting for the Coast Guard to give the all clear before they can set sail to Alaska.
Passengers who boarded the ship Thursday have been asked to stay on board and not come ashore. There are 3,256 guests and 1,161 crew onboard as the ship remains docked at Pier 27.
By the captain's 8 a.m. update, the Ruby Princess was patched up. By 9 a.m., Princess Cruises was still awaiting clearance from the U.S. Coast Guard."This was probably about 4-6 months in the making for us," she explained. "We have birthdays, anniversaries, and I'm currently pregnant and expecting. So there's a lot that we're celebrating on this cruise," she said."Everyone that I've encountered has been in good spirits," Ding told ABC7 News.
Princess Cruises addressed what it's calling a "goodwill gesture of compensation." However, it's unknown exactly what that will look like for the thousands of passengers impacted. The investigation into what went wrong with the Ruby Princess during docking at San Francisco's Pier 27 Thursday morning is in the early fact-finding phase.
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