Topics

Alcohol

Carnival Passenger Awarded $300,000 After Being Served At Least 14 Shots on CruiseBrawl Breaks Out on Norwegian EncoreIt's Always Bigger in Texas: Cruise Passengers Taxed on Cruise Booze

Caribbean

Stock Awards During a Deadly Pandemic? (Part II) NCL's CEO Frank Del Rio Rakes in $36,400,000 in 2020 While Crew Members StruggleCarnival Cruise Line, Not Jamaica or the Cayman Islands, Cancels Cruises to Those IslandsU.S. and Bahamas Battle Over Crime Statistics

Collisions and Groundings

Fiji Princess Runs Aground: 61 Passengers and Crew RescuedU.S. Coast Guard Rescues Luxury Cruise Ship Trapped in Antarctic Ice: VIDEOHungarian Court Sentences Master of Viking Sigyn River Cruise Ship For Negligence in Collision Which Killed 27 Tourists in 2019

Corporate Misconduct

Norwegian Cruise Line Reaches $2 Million Settlement With 12 States Over Deceptive COVID Sales TacticsCarnival Withholds Scrubber Pollution Data From Alaska RegulatorsThe Billionaire Who Built a Cruise Empire — and Bankrolled Jeffrey Epstein

Crew Work Conditions and Rights

Over 200 Deported "Foreign" Crew Members - U.S. Federal Immigration Agents Continue to Strip Cruise Workers of Their Due Process RightsU.S. Customs and Border Protection Deport Four More Cruise Ship Members For Child Sexual Abuse MaterialsMan Breaks into Cabin and Sexual Assaults Woman Aboard Costa Favolosa

Crime

Woman Walks Off Carnival Ship After Assaulting TeenCruise Crime Report — Q1 2026: Royal Caribbean Leads All Cruise Lines With 14 CrimesStepbrother of Anna Kepner Indicted as Adult on Murder and Sexual Abuse Charges

Death and Injury

Cruise Passenger Dies After Going Overboard in BahamasNorwegian Getaway Passenger Dies While Snorkeling in BahamasWoman Identified in Fatal Fall on Carnival Firenze

Disappearances

Crew Member Goes Overboard from Norwegian Breakaway off the Coast of Cape CodPassenger Goes Overboard From Windstar Cruises Star BreezeCruise Passenger Goes Overboard From Nieuw Statendam

Disease and Outbreaks

Norwegian Dawn Fails Health InspectionNorovirus Outbreak Sickens 115 People on Caribbean PrincessHantavirus Outbreak Kills Three Aboard Cruise Ship; Two Sick Crew Members Still Awaiting Medical Care

Drugs and Smuggling

Multiple Royal Caribbean Cruise Passengers Arrested in PortMiami on Drug ChargesDrug Bust: Passenger from Harmony of the Seas Arrested for Possession of Heroin and FentanylTwo Guests Aboard the Norwegian Joy Busted With 112 Plastic Baggies of Pot

Excursion Incidents

Young Woman Suffers Catastrophic Injuries After Excursion Accident From Carnival Ship: LawsuitExcursion Boat Carrying Mein Schiff 1 Passengers Sinks Off Dominican Republic; Dozens Rescued80-Year-Old Woman Dies After Being Abandoned on Cruise Excursion

Fires

Fire on World Legacy Kills 1 Crew Member, Injures 4 PassengersFire Aboard Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas in MexicoNames of Cruise Ships With Paroc Fire-Resistant Products

Firm News

Cruise Law News' New Look and Enhanced FeaturesTen Years of Cruise Law NewsWelcome to Cruise Law News's New Look

Industry & Corporate News

Royal Caribbean Cancels All Cruises to Labadee, Haiti for 2026Cruise Stocks Rally With Tariff PauseTrump Tariffs Cause Cruise Stocks to Tumble

Jim's Personal Stories

What the Cruise Industry Has to Learn From My Cousins Back in ArkansasThank You President Obama!New Orleans Jazz Fest 2016

Legal

Young Woman Suffers Catastrophic Injuries After Excursion Accident From Carnival Ship: LawsuitNorwegian Cruise Line Reaches $2 Million Settlement With 12 States Over Deceptive COVID Sales TacticsCarnival Passenger Awarded $300,000 After Being Served At Least 14 Shots on Cruise

Mechanical Failures

Crew Member on P&O Cruises' Arvia Dies in Elevator AccidentLifeboat Falls From Quantum of the Seas - Fortunately No InjuriesWesterdam Experiences Azipod Failure During Alaskan Cruise

Opinion

Over 200 Deported "Foreign" Crew Members - U.S. Federal Immigration Agents Continue to Strip Cruise Workers of Their Due Process RightsThe Billionaire Who Built a Cruise Empire — and Bankrolled Jeffrey EpsteinHeroic Father and Disney's Man Overboard System Save Child's Life

Passenger Rights

Just When You Thought It was Safe to Get Back in a Cruise Ship Water Slide!Cruise Passenger Beaten Unconscious on Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the SeasAnother Brawl Breaks Out on the Carnival Paradise

Pollution & Environmental Damage

Carnival Withholds Scrubber Pollution Data From Alaska RegulatorsHeavy Smoke from NCL Alaskan Cruise: Who Are You Going to Believe, the Cruise Lines or Your Lying Eyes?Virgin Voyages' Resilient Lady Smokes Out Hobart: Are You Going to Believe Your Lying Eyes?

Public Relations

MSC Cruises Ship Employee Caught Filming Women in Bathroom Near Kid's Club: What Steps, If Any, Did MSC Take to Make Certain Former Crew Member Is Not Employed on Other Cruise Ships?The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj Takes a Look at the Cruise IndustryBlackface on the MSC Seaside?

Safety and Security

Carnival Suffers Widespread IT System Failure Affecting Multiple ShipsCunard’s Queen Anne - Cruising In Troubled Waters: Would You Sail Through Pirate-Infested Seas?U.S. State Department Issues Another Travel Warning for the Bahamas

Search and Rescue

Crew Member Goes Overboard from Norwegian Breakaway off the Coast of Cape CodSearch Suspended for Passenger Who Went Overboard on Carnival SplendorPassenger Goes Overboard From Windstar Cruises Star Breeze

Severe Weather

Fiji Princess Runs Aground: 61 Passengers and Crew Rescued"Rogue Wave" Rocks Vision of the SeasSmooth Sailing on the Ocean Explorer Through the Drake Passage?

Sexual Assault and Exploitation

Carnival Passenger Pleads Guilty of Sexually Abusing Fifteen-Year-Old On The Carnival ValorU.S. Customs and Border Protection Deport Four More Cruise Ship Members For Child Sexual Abuse MaterialsHidden Camera Discovered in Cruise Bathroom Leads to Voyeurism Charge

Sinking

Excursion Boat Carrying Mein Schiff 1 Passengers Sinks Off Dominican Republic; Dozens RescuedCoast Guard Grounds Majesty of the Seas for Life Vest ViolationExcursion Vessel in Greenland Sinks, 23 Cruise Passengers Rescued

Technology

Cruise Law Meets ChatGPTAIDA Cruise Ships Under Cyber Attack - Are Costa Ships Also Affected?

Terrorism

Mein Schiff 4 Attacked by Iran as Six Cruise Ships Flee Persian GulfCrystal Cruises Risked Crew Member Lives By Sailing Crystal Symphony Through Strait of Bab el-Mandeb into the Red Sea"Jackal Stone:" U.S. and Greek Special Forces Train to Respond to ISIS Hijacking of Cruise Ship

Weird Cruise News

Just When You Thought It was Safe to Get Back in a Cruise Ship Water Slide!Man Jumps Overboard Royal Caribbean Cruise After Losing $16,000 Gambling14 Year Old Girl Assaulted By Former Police Officer on Carnival Encounter Sailing to Brisbane, Australia

Worst Cruise Line in the World

CCL Stock Plummets to Barely Above $7.00 As Carnival Corporation Reports Tenth Consecutive Quarterly LossNCL Raises Gratuities Again: The Greedy Gets GreedierNorwegian Pearl Injured Guest: NCL "Just Iced Us Out"