The month of November ended with a bang. Readers of Cruise Law News (CLN) viewed over 68,000 pages of our blog in November alone, roughly three and one-half times the total population of my home town in Arkansas. When I first started this blog a year ago, I barely had 5,000 pages readers a month. Since then
The month of November ends with the mystery of a dead Carnival passenger, another dead Royal Caribbean crew member, a drunk HAL passenger, and the usual weird cruise news.
Murder Cover Up on the Carnival Liberty? According to Carnival’s PR spokesperson Vance Gulliksen, the death of a passenger on the Carnival Liberty had nothing to so with a crime or 
violence, it
The Smoking Gun reports that a drunk passenger aboard the Ryndam cruise ship, operated by Holland America Line (HAL), released the vessel’s anchor as the cruise ship was returning to Tampa from Costa Maya, Mexico.
Under the category "drunk, stupid, crime," the article identifies the intoxicated passenger as Rick Ehlert, age 44, from Thousand Oaks, California.
The
AOL News has an interesting article about cruise ship dangers. Written by Tori Richards, the article is entitled "New Law Targets Dangers Aboard Cruise Ships." It features Ken Carver, the President of the International Cruise Victims organization.
Here is the article reprinted from AOL News:
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 28) — Missing persons. Assault.
A Royal Caribbean crew member was found dead in his cabin on the mega-ship Oasis of the Seas on November 26th. A local television station in Miami, CBS-4, identifies the crew member as a cook.
According to a statement from the cruise line, the crew member is a 33-year old Jamaican man.
"As is our standard
This Thanksgiving, my family is back in my hometown of El Dorado Arkansas visiting my parents and our cousins. Thanksgiving at the family homestead in Arkansas is the perfect place to be this time of year.
My family has a lot to be thankful for this year. My Dad, age 81, made it to another Thanksgiving despite a series of
Inconsistent information is emerging regarding the death of a passenger aboard the Liberty cruise ship operated by Carnival cruise line.
On November 20th we wrote about the Passenger Death On Carnival Liberty Cruise Ship based on information from a local news station in Miami – WSVN -7. After posting our article, we received a number of comments from passengers on the
For the past six months, I have been tracking the popularity of my blog Cruise Law News (CLN) on Avvo / Alexa Top Legal Blogs. When I first started looking at the rankings, CLN was the 55th most popular law blog. Today, CLN cracked Avvo’s list of the top ten (10) most popular law
WSVN -7 NEWS (Miami) is reporting that a cruise ship returned to South Florida after a tragedy at sea.
A 36 year old passenger aboard the Carnival Liberty cruise ship sailing to St. Thomas was discovered by another passenger unconscious in her cabin. WSVN reports that the passenger received medical attention on the cruise ship, but she was pronounced dead two hours later.
Another strange week in the world of cruising, with multiple stories about the cruise industry appearing in the main stream newspapers and on the major television networks.
Cruise Fire Fallout: The Splendor cruise ship will be out of service until January 2011, meaning Carnival will lose revenue from over 20,000 passengers. A Time Magazine blog blasted a
NBC New York has a nice video of the spirited reaction of passengers, who were aboard the disabled Carnival Splendor cruise ship, after returning home. The video is from NBC New York’s "The Show Must Go On, Even if the Ship Couldn’t" by Tim Minton.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8FQwaaVII%3Ffs%3D1%26hl%3Den_US%26rel%3D0
The latest crime against cruise passengers in the Caribbean occurred this week in the lovely island of St. Kitts when a busload of tourists from Celebrity Cruises’ Mercury cruise ship were jacked up at gun point by masked robbers during an excursion. The passengers on the Celebrity cruise ship had sailed down from Baltimore thinking that they were
This has been an exciting week in the crazy world of cruising.
The Allure of the Seas Arrives in South Florida, But No One Noticed: Last Thursday Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas, the world’s biggest cruise ship, arrived in its home port of Port Everglades after sailing across the Atlantic from the shipyard. The Allure
Pirate attacks against cruise ships have occurred and will continue to occur in the future. It’s a subject we have written about: Cruise Line Liability for Injuries to Passengers and Crew Members Caused by Pirate Attacks, Are Cruise Lines Taking Adequate Steps to Protect Passengers from Pirate Attacks?, and Somali Pirates – A
The Observer in St. Kitts-Nevis is reporting that cruise passengers on a tour bus were robbed this morning, apparently during an excursion from a cruise ship – "Busload of Tourists Robbed at Gunpoint."
The robbery reportedly occurred in the Sandy Point area on the island. A "local tour bus of cruise passengers had been robbed at gunpoint along
Now that the disabled Carnival Splendor is back in a U.S. port, some lawyers are advertising that the passengers should consider filing a lawsuit. One cruise site, offering "cruise insider expert advice," is shilling for a Miami lawyer: "Now is the time to join the November 7, 2010 passengers in a joint effort for compensation. Contact us if you were on this cruise
Last night, the U.S. Coast Guard performed a medical evacuation of a 75-year-old passenger who became sick while cruising on the Holland America cruise ship, Oosterdam, about 180 miles southwest of San Diego.
A HC-130 Hercules aircraft from the Coast Guard station in Sacramento located the HAL ship ship. A MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter dispatched from the Coast Guard’s San Diego
This week ends with tugs finally towing the Carnival Splendor cruise ship back to port in San Diego, following a fire in the engine room early Monday morning.
The video below from ABC News 10 contains interviews with passengers, images of passengers finally disembarking, and a brief animation of the fire breaking out in the engine room.
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