Cruise ship pool turns passengers' hair green

Cruise passengers ended up with bright green hair after taking a dip in a ship's luxury pool. Chlorine in the water on the P&O ship Oceana dyed the hair of nine passengers when they went for a swim. 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 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. She said: "We checked all of the chemical levels at the time and they all fell into acceptable levels. 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."
(Bron)