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Steve Read (sread)
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posted 09-24-2003 07:04 PM      Profile for Steve Read (sread)   Author's Homepage   Email Steve Read (sread)   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
From the Press Association wire, London...

BAD HAIR DAY FOR CRUISE SHIP SWIMMERS

By Victoria Ward, PA News

Unlucky cruise passengers who took a dip in a ship's luxury pool had their hair turned bright green, it emerged today.

Chlorine in the water on the P&O cruise ship Oceana dyed the hair of nine passengers when they went for a swim.

The on-board hairdressing staff had to work to change their hair colour back to normal before the ship docked at Southampton today.

A spokeswoman for P&O Cruises confirmed that the incident had happened and that as a ``gesture of goodwill'' the passengers had been referred to the ship's beauty salon for corrective treatment.

``We checked all of the chemical levels at the time and they all fell into acceptable levels,'' she said.

``We are looking into it but initial tests proved that the levels were OK.''

The swimmers were men and women, all with either very fair or dyed hair, she
said.

The pool was emptied and refilled as a precautionary measure.

There were 2,000 passengers on board the Oceana during the 10-day cruise
around Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands.

As well as the swimming pool incident, 95 passengers were struck by a mild
gastro-intestinal illness during the voyage.

The spokeswoman said that an investigation was under way to establish the cause of the illness although the symptoms were short-lived.

``Everyone fully recovered,'' she said. ``And really both were very mild complaints affecting relatively small numbers of passengers.

``But we do take any incident like this very seriously.''

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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posted 09-24-2003 07:27 PM      Profile for Malcolm @ cruisepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Look on th bright side, sread, it won't happen to you, will it?
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Ryndam
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posted 09-25-2003 02:41 PM      Profile for Ryndam   Email Ryndam   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This is not the first time it happens. The chemicals in the pools are reacting with some chemicals contained in the dyed hair. Remember if this happens to you: the first-aid treatment id Ketchup.

Ryndam


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Onno
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posted 09-25-2003 02:46 PM      Profile for Onno   Author's Homepage   Email Onno   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
look what hepend to the Hulk! you don't see him complaining about his green hair
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PamM
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posted 09-25-2003 02:55 PM      Profile for PamM   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hair turning green in chlorine is quite a common phenomena. Although unusual for it to happen to 9 people at once.. you can bet your bottom $ that none took a shower before going in the pool
Dyed & sun dried out hair is very susceptible. if they had had a 2 week sunny holiday, in the sun every day and not treated their hair to some sort of a moisturiser then it's not surprising, the hair is starved of moisture and readily soaked in the chlorine! If they had had a shower first and wet the hair, it wouldn't have turned green.
I have even seen notices by pools warning people this can happen.
Pam

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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posted 09-25-2003 03:42 PM      Profile for Malcolm @ cruisepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by PamM:
I have even seen notices by pools warning people this can happen.

Surely you are joking? What [b]"Beware of green hair"[/I]?

They must of looked like they had turf on their heads?

Does it affect all bodily hair?


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quote:
Originally posted by Onno:
look what hepend to the Hulk! you don't see him complaining about his green hair

That is because the Hulh has black hair - well on his head, anyway!

He has obviously never been cruising with P&O!


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posted 09-25-2003 04:08 PM      Profile for Steve Read (sread)   Author's Homepage   Email Steve Read (sread)   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Malcolm said: Look on th bright side, sread, it won't happen to you, will it?

How do you think I lost it!!


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