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Seatrade Cruise News reports that Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises recently settled all claims related to alleged violations of the Alaska Marine Visible Emissions Standards that occurred over an earlier five-year period on certain ships.
Last year, we reported that the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation issued notices of violation to a number of cruise lines
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Earlier today, I mentioned the recent disappearance of a young Chinese woman from the MSC Magnifica.
It appears that she may have been a murder victim, according to the police in Italy who are investigating the case.
If this is true, this is hardly the first time that a cruise passenger has been killed at
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Numerous newspapers are reporting that a woman cruising with her husband aboard the MSC Magnifica with their two young children (ages 4 and 6) on a Mediterranean cruise, starting in Civitavecchia, Italy, disappeared last week. The woman has been identified as Xing Lei Li. Her husband has been identified as Daniel Belling.
Italian police arrested the
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Today we received a message from a passenger is sailing on the Costa Magica with family. The passenger indicated that a fire broke out on the Costa cruise ship yesterday, February 24th, while the cruise ship was heading toward Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe which is in the eastern Caribbean between St. Kitts and Antigua & Barbuda to the
Two months ago, I wrote that Royal Caribbean Cruises was advertising that it was going to hire lifeguards on its cruise ships. In our December 22, 2016 article titled Royal Caribbean Cruises to Hire Lifeguards, I noted that Royal Caribbean had reconsidered its policy of only posting “swim at your own risk” signs and providing life
Two cruise passengers are reportedy fighting for their lives and others are seriously injured after an excursion bus collided with a car during a cruise sponsored trip to South Island, according to the Sun newspaper.
The cruise passengers, who were guests from the Celebrity Cruises’ Solstice cruise ship, were on an excursion near the
A passenger who went overboard into the Pacific Ocean from the Sun Princess cruise ship as it sailed between Brisbane and New Caledonia was rescued today.
Shortly after 4 P.M. local time today, the "man overboard" announcement came over the bridge.
A newspaper in Australia reported that it took about 15 minutes for the ship to
News4Jax reports that a passenger went overboard yesterday morning from the Carnival Elation approximately 15 miles southwest of Abaco, Bahamas.
The Carnival Elation sailed from Jacksonville on Monday with its first port of call in Nassau, Bahamas.
The Coast Guard is searching for the 24-year old man whose identity has not been revealed.
The news account
The U.S. Coast Guard ordered Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas to remain at Port Canaveral after a safety inspection yesterday revealed problems with the ship’s life vests.
Upset passengers quickly went to social media to voice their displeasure:
As reported by local ABC affiliate WFTV- 9:
@eric_thebruce tweeted: "How many life jackets aren’t
This week a Canadian court ordered the owners of the M/V Clipper Adventurer to pay pollution related costs and fines arising of of an incident in August of 2010 when the vessel struck a large rock shelf near Kugluktuk, Nunavut.
The owners and operators of the Clipper Adventurer claimed that the ship was not informed
A number of newspapers are reporting that an explosion on board the Emerald Princess cruise ship claimed the life of a Princess crew member at a port in New Zealand earlier this week.
The incident occurred when crew members were reportedly using a cannister of nitrogen, for deploying a lifeboat, on one of the decks near
Yesterday, investigative journalist Lizzie Presser’s article about the plight of crew members from the Philippines working on cruise ships was published. Titled Below Deck – Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t, the article follows the lives of several young Filipino men who
