Hasan Minjah of Netflix’s Patriot Act takes a hard look at the popular cruise industry. He touches upon many issues which should make even the hardest core cruise fan feel uneasy: polluted air and water, garbage mixed with plastic items and dumped into Bahamian waters, abuse of crew members, and cruise lines like Carnival, NCL
August 2019
Automatic Man Overboard System to Be Installed on Mystery Cruise Ship
MARSS announced today via Seatrade Cruse News that it secured a contract for the installation of MOBtronic, its advanced man overboard detection and tracking system onboard a new cruise ship due for operation later this year.
“The contract includes the installation of a network of MOBtronic marinised pods that are strategically positioned to cover the
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Passenger Missing From the Genting Dream
A seventy-four year old retired electrician ia reportedly missing from the Genting Dream cruise ship, according to a newspaper in Singapore.
Cruise expert Dr. Ross Klein identifies Mr. Goh Hai Peng as the missing passenger who left Singapore on the Genting cruise ship on August 4th. The four-day, three-night cruise included stops on the…
Man Overboard From the Symphony of the Seas (warning, graphic)
A man reportedly went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas last night, according to a passenger on the cruise ship. His twitter account contains a graphic reference to the recovery of the overboard man’s body by a rescue boat. The passenger states that the person apparently went overboard around 3:00 a.m. last night,…
How Long Will the Bahamas Tolerate Carnival Trashing its Waters and Polluting its Air?
A week ago we posted an article which showed the Carnival Victory belching thick black smoke into the air while it was still moored at the Princess George wharf in Nassau.
Carnival was also recently caught illegally burning heavy fuel oil in protected areas on 19 occasions, according to the Miami Herald. The Herald…
41 Year Old Woman Overboard From Princess Cruises’ Sun Princess: Coast Guard Investigates Possible Foul Play
A passenger disappeared from the Sun Princess cruise ship during a five-day cruise to Okinawa, Japan after from the port of Keelung in Taiwan on Wednesday, August 7, 2019.
The forty-one year old woman was reportedly traveling with her mother and aunt, according to the Focus Media News Channel.
The article does not state…
Carnival Fantasy Flunks Sanitation Inspection
Numerous news sources are reporting that the Carnival Fantasy failed a recent sanitation inspection (on July 17, 2019) by the United States Public Health. The USPH gave the ship a score of just 77.
This is the lowest sanitation score in the nearly thirty year history of this particular Carnival ship. The Carnival Fantasy failed…