The international press is reporting that Gahadhar Pradhan, a crew member (waiter) from P&O’s Aurora cruise ship, was pistol-whipped over the head and shot during a mugging while ashore in Philipsburg, on the Caribbean island of St Maarten.
We first learned of the incident via 
the cruise blogs by Captain Greybeard in the U.K.
The crew member was shot in
Take a look at the "blawg 100" stream on Twitter and you see a hilarious spectacle. Lawyers desperately begging for votes to win one of the best "blawg" (law blog) categories hawked by the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 contest.
The ABA Journal has quite a scam going. The Journal is operated by one of the most obsolete and irrelevant
Today, two stories broke about cruise ship crimes issues.
The first story involved three Royal Caribbean crew members arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into Baltimore from the Dominican Republic via Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas cruise ship. We have written a lot about passengers and crew members using cruise ships to smuggle drugs. Earlier this year, passengers
As year 2010 comes to a close, it’s time to look back at some of the highlights of Cruise Law News (CLN).
CLN reached the top 10 most popular law blogs, placing us above such heavyweight blogs as the China Law Blog, Simple Justice, Jonathan Turley and Overlawyered.
CLN also became a "
A Christmas cruise ended in tragedy when a three year old girl from Holland America Line’s Zuiderdam cruise ship reportedly drowned in HAL’s private destination Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas. The incident occurred on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, according to a newspaper in the Bahamas.
Cruise Law News was featured in an article yesterday about the Carnival Splendor fire and the new Coast Guard marine bulletins criticizing the cruise line’s fire suppression system which malfunctioned. The article is by Joel Siegfried in the National Examiner entitled "Coast Guard Blasts Carnival Splendor for Fire Negligence." The Examiner is one of the
Its that time of the year to be thankful for your family and friends as we celebrate Christmas.
Many, many thanks to my friends, clients and extended family.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Cruise Law News! And don’t forget, Its a Wonderful Life –
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lxNXtjGY_Us%3Ffs%3D1%26hl%3Den_US%26rel%3D0
There have been a number of articles about Royal Caribbean initial efforts to down-play the effects of the storm which rocked the Brilliance of the Seas off of the coast of Egypt last week. The cruise lines corporate office here in Miami are electronically linked to the cruise ships and instantly receive electronic images and video transmitted from the
A newspaper in Connecticut is reporting that a 59 year old passenger fell while disembarking a Princess cruise ship in a Caribbean port and injured his neck. After being flown by air ambulance to Miami, the passengers died due to complications during surgery.
The incident occurred on December 14, 2010, when Timothy Scheibel sailed with his wife to the island
A newspaper in Brazil is reporting that a young man, age 19, died after "falling" from the MSC Orchestra cruise ship, anchored in Ilhabela, in the northern coast of São Paulo in the early morning hours today. The Federal Police of San Sebastian is investigating the incident.
Although MSC Cruises released a statement that it will wait
Yesterday, the U.S. Coast Guard issued 2 Marine Safety Alerts regarding the CO2 firefighting system on Carnival Splendor cruise ship which failed to operate following an engine room fire on November 8, 2010.
The first alert indicated that the fire instruction manual (FIM) did not match the actual CO2 system aboard the cruise ship. The second alert revealed that
Cruise expert Ross Klein’s popular Cruise Junkie website is reporting, according to newspapers in Brazil, that a fire in the engine room of the MSC Cruises’ Musica knocked out air conditioning and the water supply of the cruise ship.
The cruise ship had boarded at Rio de Janeiro and was supposed to leave at 18:00 for
This weekend we received an anonymous email that a passenger died while waiting for an airlift off of the Sea Princess. Also a passenger had gone overboard from the Sea Princess and is still missing. The ship stopped, turned around, and was still looking for the passenger as of yesterday.
As usual, passengers aboard the Sea Princess
I have been critical of Royal Caribbean’s PR skills over the years, thinking that this particular cruise line’s credibility is at the bottom of the cruise industry. So when RCCL announced after the terrifying storm which rocked the the Brilliance of the Seas and injured its passengers that the cruise ship "had full power and was operating as normal" and that no
The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated a 46 year old passenger from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico following a fall on Saturday.
Passenger Andrew Spicer was aboard Holland America Line’s Ryndam cruise ship when he was reportedly injured. The cruise was roughly 120 miles southwest of St. Petersburg when the Coast Guard helicopter arrived around
A judge in Illinois rejected a request by a man accused of being a sexual predator to go on a cruise with his wife.
John K. Martynus, age 39, of Plainfield, Illinois, who counsels troubled children and works as a high school sports coach and referee, was arrested last week for allegedly trying to arrange a sexual tryst with a 13-year-old girl
The United States Coast Guard crews medevaced an ill thirteen year old from the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Jewel cruise ship near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on Saturday.
The boy had symptoms of acute appendicitis. The Coast Guard lifted the boy and his mother from the deck of the Jewel and flew them to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
This is the type of story which
CBS News is reporting that a "ferocious winter storm" pounded Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas as the cruise ship was heading into port in Alexandria, Egypt yesterday.
Hurricane force winds and thirty foot waves caused the ship to roll violently. Passengers complained of furniture and beds being tossed around. Cruise Critic contained this account from a
