A pensioner has been left stranded on the other side of the world after his cruise ship left without him while he was forced off to undergo medical tests. Holidaymaker Christopher Capel, 72, boarded a P&O Cruises vessel at the start of the year and had been just over halfway through a 100-day journey around the world when disaster struck.
After the ship docked on the island of Palawan in the Philippines on March 4, Christopher began feeling unwell and tried to go back to his room for a lie-down. But the doctor on board the ship sent him to the hospital instead.
By the time medics had carried out all their tests and given him antibiotics for heatstroke, the cruise ship he was on had left port. His insulin was still in his cabin, so his blood sugar fell dangerously low, causing hypoglycemic shock which led to a brief diabetic coma.
