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One of my interests is automatic man overboard systems on cruise ships.
Cruise lines are super-secret when it come to whether their ships have man overboard systems and, if so, what type of system is installed.
Acquaintances of mine went on a Disney cruise in March and watched as the ship’s man overboard system was
Last week Carnival announced its new brand "fathom" as the first "first voluntourism cruise line." It said that the new cruise line will focus on the "environment" and "sustainability," which seem like ridiculous propositions to me given Carnival’s deplorable record of polluting the air and water. Plus the new brand is going to operate the
The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska is reporting that it deployed a helicopter to medevac a 63-year-old woman from the Norwegian Sun on Sunday.
The helicopter crew hoisted the sick woman and flew her to Cordova Community Medical Center.
The Master of NCL cruise ship said that the passenger was suffering from abdominal complications.
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A cruise passenger from a Norwegian Cruise Line ship went overboard yesterday, according to the CruiseJunkie website.
A passenger left the following comment on cruise expert Professor Ross Klein’s website:
"At around 8:30 PM women jumped overboard. The code was called within a few minutes the capt got on the speaker explained the situation. Said
The U.S. Coast Guard is reporting that it medevaced a sick passenger from a Carnival cruise ship on Monday. The cruise ship was approximately 140 miles east of Cape Charles, Virginia at the time.
The Carnival Splendor notified the Coast Guard at approximately 5 p.m., requesting a medevac for a 73-year-old passenger experiencing health complications.
An
Yesterday the United States Coast Guard rescued a 71 year old man from the Carnival Sensation.
A MH-65 Dolphin Coast Guard helicopter from responded to a call from the Carnival Sensation and medevaced the passenger while the cruise ship was approximately 22 miles east of Palm Beach.
The Coast Guard flight crew lifted the
Yesterday, Carnival announced its new cruise brand, "fathom" (no capitalization), at a press conference in New York City. It said that the one-ship brand has an "unique business model for sustained impact and lasting development" with a "global vision that reaches beyond what the world has ever seen."
Carnival claims that "fathom" will focus on
Multiple crew members are confirming that a young woman employed in the Carnival entertainment department was found dead on the Carnival Sensation.
The cruise ship was last in Nassau, Bahamas. Bahamian news sources reported that "on Monday 1st June 2015 shortly after 6:00am, police received information that the lifeless body of a female crew
According to a documentary on Swedish TV4 as discussed in the Finnish newspaper Uutiset, cruise ship violence in the Baltic has grown “exponentially.”
36 women and girls were raped on Baltic cruise ships last year (2014), according to a report from another Finnish newspaper, HBL, covering the documentary.
The reporters used hidden cameras to
Yesterday, a passenger on the Tallink’s Baltic Princess went overboard while the ship was cruising from Stockholm to Turku.
The young man, in his 20’s, fell into the icy waters of the Finnish Archipelago Sea.
Another passenger witnessed the incident and called for help. The cruise ship turned around and the man overboard was rescued with the
Several people informed me that there has been a death aboard the Disney Dream.
An officer was reportedly discovered dead on the cruise ship yesterday. The officer reportedly was discovered hanging, in what I am told is an apparent suicide. His body was located in an air conditioning room reportedly on deck seven.
The
This weekend I read an article in a Bahamian newspaper (the Guardian) about – are you ready for this? – a “homosexual Mexican demon” called “Charlie” who the teachers in the Bahamas were concerned with. Kids in the schools in Nassau were apparently playing a game with paper and a couple of pencils where
A lawsuit was filed against Holland America Line (HAL) in Seattle for the vicious attack unleashed by a HAL crew member on a young woman last year on HAL’s Nieuw Amsterdam.
The crew member is identified as Ketut Pujayasa, age 28. from Indonesia. He worked a stateroom attendant. He used a master key card to
A fire broke out on the Crown Princess Thursday night in the back stage of the Princess theater. It was extinguished with no reports of injury.
I received an account from the cruise ship:
The fire started in a store room behind the theater. The entire theater had to be evacuated. The smoke-generating machine had
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A number of news sources report that SeaWorld’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), James Heaney, will be joining Carnival Cruise Line as CFO next month. Mr. Heaney worked at SeaWorld since 2011.
As the movie Blackfish reveals, SeaWorld profits by forcing captive orcas, which swim a hundred miles a day in the wild, to entertain tourists. The
The Bahamas Weekly reports that four Florida residents wre arrested this weekend for possession of pot on a cruise ship moored in Nassau, Bahamas.
The newspaper reports that the incident occurred on Sunday, May 24, 2015.
The report says that “officers from the Tourism Policing Unit acting on intelligence went to a cruise ship moored
A former crew member posted photographs saying that the Liberty of the Seas hid equipment, pots, pans and other items from the galley during an USPH inspection last December. You can see photographs of the galley equipment hidden throughout the ship (primarily in the crew quarter) on our Facebook page.
Two years ago Silversea
Earlier this week, a 10 year old child drowned in a crowded swimming pool on NCL’s Norwegian Gem.
It’s the seventh time that a child has drowned, or nearly-downed, on a cruise ship in just two years. The incidents occurred on cruise ships operated by all of the major cruise lines’ ships: Carnival, Disney
