We are just a few hours before placing 2015 is in our rear view mirror as we start upon a fresh New Year. So what are the memories which come to mind when we think of taking a cruise in 2015? And what are the lessons that the cruise industry learned in 2015 which will
FOX 4 Fort Myers aired a gruesome video last night taken by passengers on the Carnival Ecstasy of blood pouring out of the top of the elevator running down the elevator door like a sheet. The passenger said "it sounded like a rainstorm . . . "
The news account reported that the couple were
The accounts of the gastrointestinal outbreak on the P&O Pacific Eden portrayed in today’s Daily Mail are disgusting: overflowing toilets on a dirty ship with barfing, sick kids. Ill passengers, who paid handsomely for a family cruise vacation over Christmas, complain that not only did their complaints fall on the deaf ears of surly cruise
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that fifty-seven (57) of 1429 passengers (3.99%) and ten (10) of 588 crew members (1.70%) have been reported ill with gastrointestinal illness aboard the Veendam cruise ship operated by Holland American Line.
The CDC has yet to figure out what type of outbreak is involved. It
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I have found that whenever I write about a crew member sexually assaulting a passenger, a certain number of the co-employees instinctively defend the crew member, even when the victim involves a child.
On Christmas Eve, a local Miami news station reported that a 31 year old Disney crew member was arrested for allegedly sexually
WSVN Channel 7 reports that a 31 year old man was arrested for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old girl aboard a Disney cruise ship which sailed last week from the port of Miami.
The news channel says that the man is from Honduras and he allegedly fondled the little girl on board the Disney Magic
Windstar Cruises’ Star Pride (photo left in Europe when it was operated by Seabourn) hit rocks near Isla de Coiba, Panama yesterday morning.
Professor Ross Klein’s website says that according to a passenger aboard the Star Breeze:
"We have just picked up 109 passenger and crew from another Windstar Cruise Liner in (what I
Yesterday, a young child drowned on Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas, according to the website of cruise expert Ross Klein. A letter (below right) handed out to passengers states that the child was pulled, apparently unconscious, from one of the cruise ship’s pools by a passenger. A medical team administered CPR on
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News Maritime reports that a fire erupted in the galley of the ferry Cruise Europa during a voyage from Ancona, Italy to Igoumenitsa-Patras, Greece.
The fire reportedly started in a galley, but the fire sprinkler system stopped the spread of the fire and extinguished it. There are reports that the ship’s galley was slightly damaged
A jury in Tampa, Florida has returned a guilty verdict against a man who was part of a group of cruise ship employees who smuggled cocaine into Tampa from Roatan, Honduras. According to the Tampa Tribune, Desrick Gordon, age 23, faces 10 years to life in prison.
Mr. Gordon is from the country of
The cruise industry is attempting to prevent its crew members from using U.S. law when they are injured or when they have been denied appropriate medical treatment.
The cruise lines’ lawyers and lobbyists have inserted language in the Coast Guard Re-Authorization Act to strip “foreign” crew members of their rights under U.S. law after they
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The World of Cruising reports that a passenger from the Saga Sapphire went overboard from the cruise ship while the ship was cruising across the Atlantic Ocean.
The magazine’s Facebook page says that "a passenger has gone missing from cruise ship Saga Sapphire in the middle of the Atlantic. The ship, specializing in holidays for the
A small fire reportedly broke out in the gas turbine exhaust of the QM2 on December 12th. It was quickly extinguished although the cruise ship temporarily lost power.
One of the cruise ship pods also malfunctioned and the ship was briefly delayed in Lisbon to address this problem.
The QM2 is headed now back to the
The cruise industry has always struggled with its environmental image. The "big three" cruise lines (Carnival, Norwegian and Royal Caribbean) were fined tens of millions of dollars collectively in the 1990’s and 2000’s for dumping pollutants into the water and lying to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Cruise lines argue that their days of dumping at
Crime Watch Daily is a new program which focuses on stories of crime in the daily life of average Americans. Last month, it published it’s first show regarding crime on cruise ships – Cruise Ship Crime: Hard to Prosecute, Convict about the difficulties prosecuting crimes on the high seas.
The program has now published its
A Bahamian newspaper reports that the police department in Nassau, Bahamas arrested a jet ski operator this past weekend after he allegedly sexually assaulted a female visitor.
The Tribune newspaper says that the alleged sexual assault happened on Friday off Cabbage Beach near Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas.
The woman reported topolice officers that around 3
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Virgin Islands News Online reports that at least two cruise passengers have been killed and many other passengers injuired on an excursion bus transporting cruise tourists to Cane Garden Bay beach today in Tortola, British West Indies.
According to this news report, the excursion bus apparently lost control near "Round Hill" on the Cane Garden Bay
A reader of Cruise law news has brought to our attention that newspapers in Germany are reporting that the police in Berlin arrested a cruise ship employee impersonating a cruise ship doctor.
In an article titled “Fake Doctor Treated Hundreds of Cruise Passengers,” the German newspaper Aftenposten says that a 40 year old
