Royal Caribbean President Adam Goldstein has a strange article this past week on his Sea Views blog. It’s about his cruise line’s "FlowRider" attraction, where passengers attempt to boogie board or surf on a thin water streaming at a high speed across the surface of the attraction.
We have written a number of articles
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Dr. Ross Klein’s Cruise Junkie and Local News Station 5 in Belize are reporting on the arrest of two cruise passengers who went ashore in Belize last week. Both young men were caught with small amounts of pot in Belize’s "tourism village" and were arrested.
As I have mentioned before in a prior article, Reefer
Our law firm receives anywhere from a dozen to several dozen e-mails a day from people complaining about every imaginable problem on the high seas.
We divide the complaints into two general categories – complaints by passengers and complaints by crew members.
Cruise passengers complain about all types of things, like the food was bad
Last week we reported on a norovirus outbreak on the Fred Olsen cruise ship, Black Watch, while sailing to Russia. The cruise ship’s sickened passengers dubbed the ship the "Black Death." One ill cruise passengers was quoted saying:
“The staff marked doors of those infected with a cross. It was like the Dark Ages.
Local news stations in San Francisco are reporting that the U.S. Coast rescued a cruise passengers man suffering from acute kidney failure aboard a Princess cruise ship 40 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday morning.
A 79-year-old Canadian man was demonstrating symptoms of kidney failure while aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship which was
A blog discussing Goa India, and Miami’s Daily Business Review, are reporting on a significant verdict that was recently reached against Miami-based Celebrity Cruises.
The jury verdict involves a Celebrity crew member, Vincente Fernandes, from Goa, India. Back in September 2009, Mr. Fernandes was an assistant stateroom attendant on a Celebrity cruise ship. He
Last week we reported on the death of a passenger aboard the Carnival Dream cruise ship on September 20, 2013.
The incident involved a man who was found unconscious under the water in a hot tub on the cruise ship.
Several news outlets are reporting today that the man was 41 year-old Michael Moses Ward, also
Yesterday morning, CNN’s New Day aired a short program about Captain Schettino’s testimony at his criminal trial. He claims that he is not to blame for the deadly Concordia disaster.
CNN’s Erin McLaughlin reports on the story.
I was interviewed briefly in the program.
You can read about the story here.
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On Sunday we reported on the 3 – 4 hour power failure aboard the Royal Princess when it was sailing in the Mediterranean between Greece and Italy.
The Princess cruise ship finally limped into Naples (where it remains today, see Princess Cruises web cam) and the cruise line canceled the remainder of the cruise. Several
This evening a number of news organizations are reporting that a crew member went overboard from the MSC Opera cruise ship.
BBC News reports that the crew member went overboard when the cruise ship was south of the Isle of Wright.
The News identified the crew member as a 33 year-old Indian national named
In yesterday’s criminal trial against Captain Schettino, the disgraced captain of the doomed Costa Concordia testified that the disaster was not his fault, but was due to the error of the helmsman who failed to promptly follow his orders to turn the cruise ship away from the rocks.
Schettino testified that when he arrived in
We were one of the first to report that the Princess Cruises’ Royal Princess cruise ship lost power last weekend. Princess was cooperative telling us that the cruise ship lost power, and it quickly added that emergency generators supplied power for toilets and so forth, that the cruise ship and its guests were not in
The Bermuda Sun reports that on September 17th a NCL cruise passenger was taken to a hospital in Bermuda after she fell two decks and was seriously injured. The woman was aboard the Norwegian Breakaway.
The newspaper states that “it is unclear where exactly on the mega-ship that the accident took place or how it
Cruise Fever reports that Princess Cruises’ newest cruise ship, the Royal Princess, experienced a loss of power in the Mediterranean as the cruise ship was sailing between Mykonos and Naples. Here’s what Cruise Fever is saying:
The cruise ship lost power around 1:30 P.M. local time.
Emergency generators started.
Toilets and emergency services are functional.
The Daily Record reports that the Fred Olsen Black Watch was nick-named "Black Death" after more than 100 passengers were struck down by a norovirus outbreak during a 12-night Scandinavia and St Petersburg cruise.
The cabins of infected quarantined passengers were marked with crosses to warn cruise staff who wore face masks for protection. Their luggage
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Several cruise passengers have stated that a passenger died aboard the Carnival Dream on September 20 2013.
Cruise passengers indicate that they got into one of the hot tubs on the cruise ship Friday evening and realized that another passenger, a man, was under the water. The man reportedly was removed from the tub, and
KCAW reports that a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, based in Sitka, Alaska, medevaced a 72-year-old woman from the cruise ship Diamond Princess in Icy Strait on September 19, 2013.
The woman, suffering from convulsions, was safely transferred to awaiting emergency medical personnel in Sitka, about 100 miles south of Icy Strait. EMS then transported her
Last week the public was transfixed on the incredible spectacle of the "parbuckling" project which, at a cost of $800,000,000 and rising, finally but successfully righted the capsized Costa Concordia in the port of Giglio.
The major news networks offered live streaming video of the event. Social media, especially Twitter, provided non-stop, second-by-second updates
