MSC touted the MSC Seaside as the “first of a new generation of MSC ships with revolutionary architecture and cutting-edge technology” when it christened the ship in Miami last year. USA TODAY explained that MSC specifically designed the MSC cruise ship to “appeal to American cruisers.”
But when U.S. passenger Laura Eka and her newlywed
Last week, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested seven MSC crew members for smuggling cocaine into the port of Miami aboard the MSC Seaside, according to crew members wishing to remain anonymous.
On Saturday, November 17, 2018, CBP officers boarded the MSC Seaside after it arrived at the port of Miami and
A crew member was killed in an accident which occurred during the dry dock refurbishment of the cruise ship Le Boréal in the port of Valparaiso, Chile on November 18th.
The popular Crew-Center reports that a young (25 year-old) crew member from Romania fell 75 feet after he slipped from a ladder placed
A number of cruise passengers on the Adventure of the Seas inform Cruise Law News that the captain announced to the cruise ship yesterday that a crew member disappeared from the ship.
The Adventure of the Seas was in Cozumel when the captain made an announcement that an unidentified crew member could not be accounted
A sixty-nine year old U.S. citizen, originally from California, was identified yesterday as the victim of an abduction and murder in Roatan, Honduras, according to a Honduran newspaper El Heraldo.
The newspaper reports that the body of Philip Foster Brown was found in a ravine near a road leading from West End to West
Cruise passengers are reportedly fearful of the current conditions of Nassau’s famed Straw Market, according to local vendors in the Bahamas and a popular U.S. cruise publication.
One of the vendors told the Tribune newspaper “. . . many of the tourists refused to come off the ship because they were told the market is
This evening (past midnight local time), the Costa Luminosa cruise ship responded to a ship on fire off the Coast of Greece. The Costa ship reportedly aided in the rescue of crew members from the merchant vessel.
The ship fire was tweeted by Angel David / @angeltem.
El crucero #costaluminosa rescatando a otro navío.
Incendio a bordo de un mercante en plena noche. @InfoEmerg @costacruceros @ActualidadRT pic.twitter.com/RfzGbOj6zc— ⚕️Angel David 🇪🇸 (@angeltem) November 20, 2018
The tweet reads: “cruiser #costaluminosa rescuing
The United States Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a Norwegian Cruise Line (“NCL”) cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 230 nautical miles from Southwest Pass, Louisiana on Saturday, November 17th.
The Eighth Coast Guard District in New Orleans received a request from NCL’s Norwegian Breakaway at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday for a
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) announced during the evening of Sunday November 18th that is was cancelling the current cruise of the Norwegian Jade due to an unspecified “mechanical issue.”
The Jade is currently is San Juan, Puerto Rico during the third day of a “10-Night Southern Caribbean,” having left Miami during the afternoon of November
Several passengers aboard the Royal Princess cruise ship have informed Cruise Law News that a passenger fell from an upper deck and struck a lifeboat last night.
One passenger, who wishes to remain anonymous, stated:
“A women on royal princess princess cruise line was pushed or fell from the lido 15th or 16th deck onto
A cruise passenger on board Holland America Line’s Maasdam was killed on November 7th when she slipped and fell between a tender and the HAL cruise ship. At the time of the incident, the ship was in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
The source of the information is a passenger, wishing to remain anonymous, who
An Italian cruise ferry Excellent reportedly struck a gantry crane in Barcelona, Spain today, causing containers to fall to the pier and catch 
fire, according to the FleetMon tracking/maritime news website.
Written by maritime online journalist Mikhail Voytenko, the article states that the ferry accident may have been caused, presumably, by a combination of bad
In October of last year, a couple from Northern Florida went on a three-day cruise on the Carnival Fantasy out of Mobile. On the last evening of the cruise, to their shock and horror, they discovered a small video camera hidden in the bundled cables, behind the television in their cabin, which pointed toward their
Earlier this afternoon, a passenger aboard the Celebrity Constellation informed me that the Celebrity cruise ship broke its moorings in La Spezia, Italy due to torrential winds during a heavy rain storm.
https://www.facebook.com/crucerofun/videos/2204702716519737/
We were subsequently informed via Twitter that once the mooring lines broke, the Constellation struck the Costa Magica which was
On December 22, 2016, the Independence of the Seas was returning to Port Everglades with approximately 3,600 passengers who were enjoying the last night of a four-night Christmas cruise. Shortly before 2 a.m., when the Royal Caribbean cruise ship was around 33 miles southeast of Key Largo, a 22 year-old student, Nathan Skokan, cruising with
Mechanical problems are affecting the speed of the Carnival Victory cruise ship which departed yesterday from the port of Miami.
The Carnival cruise ship was supposed to sail from Miami to Key West arriving this morning around 7:30 a.m., and then sailing on to Cozumel, Mexico before returning to Miami in October 26, 2018.
However,
A passenger reportedly died following a fall aboard the Grand Classica cruise ship operated by the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line according to several sources.
WPTV in West Palm Beach reports that the Grand Classica contacted the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday evening when an unidentified passenger fell and was injured on the cruise ship after
According to ABC News in Australia, a cruise passenger was arrested after he tried to throw his partner overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas.
According to the Mercury newspaper, witnesses heard screaming followed by an emergency alarm.
The Daily Mail identified the cruise passenger as David James Fysh. According to the
