The United States Coast Guard is reporting that it last night it medevaced a 77 year old female cruise ship passenger suffering from a stroke approximately 200 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina.
The ill woman was on the Carnival Pride.
The Coast Guard air crew arrived on the scene at at sea on scene
Cruise ships losing power or propulsion have been a dime a dozen in recent years.
But two major cruise ships losing propulsion and being stranded in an U.S. port seems just a tad unusual. That seems to be the situation with the Holland America Line’s Maasdam and the Celebrity Summit cruise ships this weekend.
This weekend I watched the 48 HOURS’ episode of the disappearance of Royal Caribbean cruise passenger George Smith from the Brilliance of the Seas in July 2005.
There were no alarms that sounded when Mr. Smith was thrown over his balcony railing ten years ago. No signals were sent to the bridge alerting the navigational
Several NCL crew members reported to me that a crew member aboard the Norwegian Sun went overboard early yesterday morning while the Sun was proceeding to Juneau, Alaska.
The crew member reportedly went overboard before the cruise ship reached Juneau.
The crew members was not rescued and his body was not located.
We are not
This weekend will mark 10 years since George Smith disappeared from Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas in the early morning hours of July 5, 2005.
Mr. Smith was on a honeymoon cruise with his newlywed bride, Jennifer Hagel, who we later represented on behalf of Mr. Smith’s estate against the cruise line over his
Cruise passengers from the Westerdam and the Noordam Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ships were on three Promech excursion flighseeing planes on the fateful day of June 25th when 8 HAL passengers died.
These passengers experienced substantially similar experiences regarding the weather conditions as the dead passengers. They experienced the same or very similar flight
An Australian newspaper published a mini-documentary about cruise ship dangers in Australia today.
SBS’ "The Feed" published Murky Waters: The Dark Side of the Cruise Industry, written and produced by Hannah Sinclair.
The video takes a look at a part of cruising that many Australians may be disturbed to learn – sexual assaults, drugs, excessive
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Cruise Critic is reporting that the Holland America Line (HAL) Ryndam cruise ship is a code red situation with a gastrointestinal virus sickening passengers sailing from the U.K.
The HAL cruise ship is returning to port in Harwich a day early, this Friday July 3rd, in order for the crew members to conduct what is called
The Holland America Line (HAL) excursion staff on the Westerdam is in an uproar after Yahoo Travel published an article yesterday containing criticisms of its excursion policies and procedures. I was quoted in the article. I characterized HAL’s policy of assessing a 100% penalty against cruise passengers who cancel a seaplane excursion more than 3 days
The Daily Mail identifies the names of the 8 cruise passengers and the pilot killed in the "flightseeing" excursion in Alaska. The HAL passengers were from California, Nevada, Oregon and Maryland.
The Alaska Dispatch News takes a look at this type of excursion and describes it as a "lucrative subset" of the cruise industry.
A near disaster unfolded early this morning when the Celestyal Crystal, a cruise ship operated by Celestyal Cruises, collided with the STI Pimlico fuel tanker, according to the Turkish publication, SeaNews.
The tanker was filled with a cargo of extremely volatile naphtha (flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture). The cruise ship’s bow struck the midsection of
Newspapers are reporting that 8 Holland America Line (HAL) cruise passengers were killed today when the sightseeing airplane they booked through HAL crashed near Ketchikan, Alaska.
The Seattle PI newspaper reports that the pilot of the charter plane and all eight cruise passengers died when the plane crashed about 20 miles northeast of Ketchikan. The aircraft reportedly
The Caymans is the latest island in the Caribbean where the cruise lines are beating their drums for a new multi-million dollar pier to be built for them in order to expand the business of cruising.
I saw this same scenario unfold in Falmouth, Jamaica where Royal Caribbean ram-roded a plan to dredge ancient coral
This morning Cruise Law News hit a milestone when the 150,000th person “liked” our Facebook page.
The motto of this blog is “everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know.” Our main goal is to educate the public about dangers on cruise ships and in ports of call that the cruise industry would
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Carnival Corporation announced its second quarter profits today.
Its revenues to date for 2015 (June 30th) were $7,180,000,000 (billion), consisting of passenger fares (tickets) of $5,425,000,000 and onboard purchases (booze, spa, specialty meals, casino) of $1,755,000,000. It’s net income was $271,000,000.
And Carnival paid taxes of? Nothing.
You have heard me say this before. By
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The U.S. Department of State issued another warning to U.S. citizens that crime and violence in El Salvador continue to be at high levels. U.S. citizens traveling to El Salvador should remain alert to their surroundings. This travel warning supersedes the last warning (November 21, 2014).
Since January 2010, 34 U.S. citizens have been murdered
I just read incredibly misleading headlines about Silversea Cruises’ new WI-Fi policy – "Silversea: Free WiFi for All Guests."
Cruise Industry News quoted Silversea Cruises’ Kristian Anderson, Silversea’s senior vice president of sales and general manager for the Americas:
"For well over 20 years, Silversea has set the course in defining the all-inclusive, ultra-luxury cruise experience.
Today I received a nice "thank you" from an anonymous cruiser who, as she says, stumbled on this website:
Thank you sooo much for your web site. Stumbled upon it looking for cruise ship deals for myself and my teenage daughter. We were not aware of the dangers of the ports. Thank you for
