Interview wh Gay Courter/Diamond Prcs –

Contents:

• GAY COURTER
• AUTHOR ARCHIV: GAY COURTER
• UPDAT OM PASSENGERS PHIL AND GAY COURTER ON THE DIAMOND PRCS QUARANTE
• UPDAT OM PASSENGERS PHIL AND GAY COURTER ON THE DIAMOND PRCS QUARANTE

GAY COURTER

A equent and savvy traveler, as well as an avid llector of cred rd pots to aid her wanrlt, Gay also wr a travel blog for the Creators Syndite.

AUTHOR ARCHIV: GAY COURTER

Her webse is Gay did the rearch for her latt novel, "The Girl the Box, " aboard the Diamond Prcs 2017. Wh her hband, Philip, Gay found Courter Films & Associat (), based Crystal River, Florida, the early 1970s, and together they have produced more than 300 documentary, tnal, and rporate films and won numero awards, cludg two Emmys.

Amerin passenger Gay Courter packs her belonggs on board the Diamond Prcs cise ship, Febary, Febary 16. Courty of Philip and Gay Courter/via REUTERS. 1of2Gay Courter, left, was quaranted wh her hband, Philip, at Jot Base San Anton-Lackland after beg evacuated om the Diamond Prcs, a cise ship where hundreds of people were fected wh the ronavis Febary.

A longtime thor, Gay Courter has wrten a book about the experience.

UPDAT OM PASSENGERS PHIL AND GAY COURTER ON THE DIAMOND PRCS QUARANTE

Gay Courter and her hband, Philip, were standg on their balny aboard the Diamond Prcs, packg and ntemplatg the fal leg of their vatn across Asia, when the voice of the cise ship’s pta stopped them their tracks. S., argug the quarante has failed, wh Gay tellg CNN they’re trapped a “ntamated prison. Uple quaranted on cise ship reacts to CDC liftg no-sail banAs the cise dtry figur out how to safely set sail aga, ABC Actn News Anchor Pl LaGrone sat down wh Gay and Phil Courter at their home as they reunted the tense moments onboard a cise ship that sudnly beme a giant quarante se Courters board the Diamond Prcs Japan for a month-long voyage to celebrate the Che Lunar New Year.

"There were some ltle signs that this new novel ronavis was begng to affect the world ways that we were jt beg aware of, " Gay said. " "When we returned to Japan, the first stop was Okawa, they did somethg very unual, they ma everyone get off the ship cludg the crew, " Gay add. "We were pullg to the dock Yokohama and we went out on our balny and we saw a scene om a sci-fi movie, " Gay relled.

UPDAT OM PASSENGERS PHIL AND GAY COURTER ON THE DIAMOND PRCS QUARANTE

" "We were more ightened than I’d ever been my whole life, " Gay said. "I thk jt by stayg very by, kept om beg a panic mo" "You have to unrstand this was a worldwi news cycle, " Gay add. "We didn’t know about the sick people until I’m standg the porta-potty le, and this guy taps the woman behd me and said you are posive, " Gay said.

Marshals wh guns surroundg and here we are old ladi and we are the prisoners, " Gay said.

" "And people who had their sus down by the b went crazy, one guy tri to climb the fence people were screamg cryg, " Gay said.

"I thk allowed to say out loud what we were thkg about how much we loved each other how much we appreciated gettg through this together to have the hard talks, " Gay said. " "I don’t unrstand why there is even a nflict about , " Gay add.

" Usg her gift of words, Gay Courter has already penned her new novel that chronicl spenseful tail her and her hband’s te story, their day to day fight to survive, and their missn to live to tell world about the first major cCOVID-19 outbreak outsi of book is aptly tled “Quarante. It was like 'wele home, '" said Gay Courter, who spent 10 days quarante wh her hband Phil Courter near Tokyo. Gay Courter, a New York Tim bt-sellg thor, said that they aren't allowed to leave their quarters for the two-week duratn.

"Last week, Gay Courter said the experience on the quaranted ship was "terrifyg" as guts waed out the quarante is expected to end other more than 100 Amerin passengers that rema on the Prcs Cise-owned ship or are hospals Japan will not be allowed to return to the U. Gay Courter’s latt book, Quarante! In early Febary 2020, Gay and her documentary filmmaker hband, Phil, found themselv quaranted Yokohama aboard the Diamond Prcs cise ship by the Japane ernment, jt as they were about to disembark after a two-week southeast Asian cise.

Is the sir’s book on the Diamond Prcs episo, a spenseful real-life drama reuntg Gay and Phil’s twelve-day oral aboard ship, their tenac efforts to get the U. Gay and Phil own Courter Films & Associat, based Crystal River, Florida. Before the COVID-19 panmic curtailed travel, Gay and Phil had several ternatnal adventur each year.

Gay’s travel articl for the Creators Syndite go out to two thoand publitns wh about forty ln rears. Millns of pi of Gay Courter’s prev books have sold. In the award-wng I Speak for This Child: Te Stori of a Child Advote, Gay reunts her twenty-five years as a volunteer appoted to help neglected and abed children the Florida urts.

In addn to the more than 150 terviews wh media outlets om around the globe that Gay and Phil did while unr quarante Japan and Texas, Gay wrote two op-eds for the Washgton Post and an article for The Atlantic. See for more about Gay and her prev books. Interview wh Gay Courter/Diamond Prcs.