A lifeboat accident occurred this afternoon while the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas was in the port of Charleston.
A passenger aboard the cruise ship (who wishes to remain anonymous) informed me that a lifeboat had fallen from the cruise ship and was upside down in the water. He sent photographs of the lifeboat
The Manila Bulletin reports that Royal Caribbean announced yesterday that it is "hiring a total of 30,000 Filipino crew members over the next five years" as the company "expands its fleet and routes to Asia."
The newspaper also states that the cruise line currently employees around 11,000 Filipinos as crew members.
Filipinos seafarers have a proud
In the last couple of weeks I’ve posted photographs of the crew mess on a number of cruise ships. Some of the photos are gross, Some of the photos don’t seem too bad. One crew member said the food on the Queen Victoria was great.
Today a crew member on the Queen Elizabeth
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The other day I posted an article entitled Grub on the High Seas. I also posted photographs on Facebook of the food served in the crew mess, primarily on MSC, Costa and Cunard cruise ships.
A number of crew members sent me photos of some nasty looking stuff (photo left from Cunard). One cruise
In past months, I have posted photographs and videos sent to me by crew members depicting life on cruise ships.
The “ship life” photos are not the pretty images carefully arranged for the guests to see during behind-the-scene tours.
Ship Life – The Pot Wash Blues revealed the incredible amount of work required daily by
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Yesterday I announced that we will begin regularly featuring photos and videos from crew members of the conditions which they face working on cruise ships.
There was a spirited debate which followed on our Facebook page about the issue.
One cruise passenger commented: " No one forces these people to work on the cruise ships.
A reader of Cruise Law News sent me a link to this Costa crew member’s Facebook page which contains video and photographs of hundreds of broken dishes in the ship’s galley.
It appears that the cruise ship experienced some type of incident affecting the ship’s navigational system; I’m not sure of the details.
You can
Travel Weekly just published an "interview" of Royal Caribbean cruise executive Richard Fain as part of the cruise line’s promotional build-up to the arrival of the Quantum of the Seas.
it’s hyperbolic, razzle-dazzle, gobbledygook at it’s finest.
Royal Caribbean has been been invading crew gratuities for years, doubling up officers in what were previously
Effective Monday May 5, 2014, Royal Caribbean will create a new risk management department which will be managed by a certified public accountant, Tom Burke. Mr. Burke joined the cruise line in 2003 and most recently worked as the Vice President of Audit and Advisory Services. He was previously a manager at the accounting firm
Today, a jury here in Miami, Florida returned a verdict over $6,200,000 on behalf of a seriously injured crew member.
The crew members is from Haiti and worked as a cleaner on the Jewel of the Seas.
He sustained a serious back injury due to the repetitive nature of his work and the long