Captain of suspended cruise ship blames fuel prices

The captain of the Villa Vie Odyssey cruise ship describes it being “really painful” to request hundreds of people who were living permanently on the vessel to disembark in Cambodia after soaring fuel prices forced them to cease operations.

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