A luxury cruise ship became trapped in thick Arctic ice in the Ross Sea on January 17, 2026. The cruise ship, Scenic Eclipse II, required assistance from the USCGC Polar Star, the U.S. Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker, to break it free from the ice.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the Scenic Eclipse
Last week the Department of Transportation (DOT) published its quarterly cruise crime data for Q4 2025. The data followed similar trends from the last several years, with one exception — Carnival Cruise Line (hereinafter Carnival) reported only three (3) crimes on its ships and zero physical assaults with serious injuries.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) reported 44 crimes across all cruise lines in Q4 of 2025. Royal Caribbean led the cruise industry in crime while Carnival saw a sharp drop compared to Q3 2025.
The DOT tracks crimes by the quarter they were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of the
A passenger went overboard from the Star Breeze while the cruise ship was sailing off the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. The Windstar Cruises ship sounded a “Code Oscar” after it discovered the passenger was missing.
According to a local media report from Tahiti, the passenger involved is a 66-year-old male from the United
A young man was found deceased aboard Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas while the ship was in port in Singapore on January 19th, 2026. The cruise was finishing its three-night voyage to Penang Island in Malaysia when the incident occurred.
According to Singapore newspaper The Straits Times, police received a call about the
Royal Caribbean canceled all cruise ship visits to its private resort Labadee in Haiti for the remainder of 2026, extending its previous suspension that went through April 2026.
A Royal Caribbean spokesperson told the Miami Herald, “Out of an abundance of caution, we have extended our pause to Labadee.” The cruise line did not
A U.S. Coast Guard Veteran, Jose Martinez, was wrongfully detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in the early morning of Monday, January 5th 2026. Martinez was celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife, Tamara Verhas, on a Carnival Cruise when the incident took place.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the Rotterdam cruise ship operated by Holland America Line (HAL) experienced a norovirus outbreak during the ship’s Caribbean voyage from December 28, 2025 through January 9, 2026.
The Carnival Corporation-owned ship had eighty-one (81) guests and eight (8) crew members sickened with vomiting and diarrhea
A twenty-two year-old man from Huntsville, Alabama, was arrested for possession and transportation of child pornography at Port Everglades on Saturday, after he got off the Majestic Princess, according to Local 10 News.
Federal customs officers conducted a search of Samuel Wolfe Peterson’s cellphone and laptop found about 20 videos of victims as
A sixteen-year-old girl aboard a Carnival cruise ship was allegedly sexually assaulted by another teenager who was arrested by the Royal Bahamian Police in Nassau, Bahamas, according to a Bahamian newspaper. The incident occurred on the Carnival Sunrise on December 29, 2025.
On January 2, 2026, a Bahamian judge granted the assailant an emergency
Two American cruise passengers have been charged with rape after allegedly swapping places to deceive a woman into having sex with them. The incident occured on the Carnival Sunrise on December 15, 2025.
The 25-year-old victim told police in the Bahamas that she met Sayjuan Readous, 26, during the cruise and had a drink with him
A seventy-seven year old passenger reportedly went overboard from Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam in the early morning hours of January 1, 2026 as the cruise ship was returning to South Florida. Online posts on social media show the HAL ship was sailing northeast of Cuba when the incident occurred.
The Nieuw Statendam was on
