Cruise ship captain told court company takes self-harm threats 'very seriously'

Captain said he was informed in the early hours of August 9 that a guest had threatened suicide if she could not get another cabin and decided solicitor Caroline Fanning, 49, and her 13-year-old daughter, would be disembarked in the Bahamas on August 9, 2015

Caroline Fanning, of Foxrock Avenue, Dublin, previously told the court she was being sarcastic when she referenced suicide to the ship’s receptionist when complaining about the motion of her room and its effect on her sea sickness. Picture: Collins Courts

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship captain who decided an Irish passenger should be disembarked has said the company takes threats of self-harm "very seriously".

Captain Trym Selvag, who was the captain of the ‘Oasis of the Seas’, told the High Court on Thursday that he decided, upon the recommendation of the company’s “global security” team, that solicitor Caroline Fanning, 49, and her 13-year-old daughter, would be disembarked in the Bahamas on August 9, 2015.