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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report regarding whether the cruise industry has implemented the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act (CVSSA) of 2010.
I have pointed out that the last several man overboard cases indicate that the cruise industry refuses to install the necessary man overboard technology. It’s disgraceful that this is
Last week, I reported on a Filipino crew member who apparently jumped off of the Grand Princess cruise ship after it left San Francisco. The 34 year old man was the fifth person to go overboard in the last 18 days.
Although Princess did not notify the Coast Guard until approximately two hours after the
Yesterday the on-line cruise community Cruise Critic published an article "Man Overboards: Questions and Answers."
We previously criticized Cruise Critic after it deleted comments from its message boards about the passenger who recently went overboard from the HAL Veendam. We have also been critical of the cruise lines for not investing in
Today’s news that a search is underway to rescue a crew member who apparently jumped from the Grand Princess cruise ship early this morning illustrates a continuing problem with the cruise industry.
A Coast Guard spokesperson said that there was a 2 hour delay between the crew members going overboard and notification to the Coast
A local CBS news station in San Francisco is reporting that a 34 year-old crew member is missing from the Grand Princess cruise ship approximately 1,000 miles northeast of Hawaii.
According to the internet news report, Princess Cruises says that the man reportedly jumped overboard last night or early this morning.
The cruise ship, owned
According to news sources, a passenger is reportedly missing from the Independence of the Seas cruise ship which sailed to the Cayman Islands today.
The missing passenger is a 65-year-old man from Canada who was reported missing by his wife, before the Royal Caribbean ship arrived at the Grand Cayman’s port.
His name and
Last week I wrote an article entitled Top 10 Most Outrageous Cruise Ship Stories of 2013. There were a lot out outrageous moments in the maritime community last year. I had to work hard to whittle my initial list of outrageous cruise stories down to just ten.
One outrageous story which I had
Early this morning we received an email from a cruise passenger aboard the Royal Caribbean Adventure of the Seas alerting us that a man had gone overboard last night. We received this message:
“Man overboard Royal Caribbean Adventure of the Seas. Close enough to San Juan to be getting AT&T service right now. At about
We have been notified from readers of Cruise Law News that a passenger has gone overboard from the Royal Caribbean Rhapsody of the Seas.
The cruise ship was reportedly 550 kilometres east of Brisbane on a trip from Sydney to the South Pacific.
The P&O’s Pacific Pearl cruise ship was involved in the recovery
We have asked P&O Ferries’ primary competitors to answer whether they have CCTV cameras on the passenger decks on their ships. We’d like to see whether P&O Ferries is the only U.K. based ferry line not using CCTV cameras to monitor and record the activities on their passenger decks.
France’s MyFerryLink answered today stating only
P&O Ferries crisis management spokesperson Chris Laming recently responded to the disappearance of passenger Richard Fearnside.
He stated that P&O Ferries refuses to consider installing CCTV cameras on the Pride of Kent ferry.
He told a newspaper in Kent, U.K.:
"It is so rare. It is just not practical to consider doing this."
The parents of a 30 year-old passenger who disappeared from a ferry sailing between Calais and Dover are petitioning for legislation requiring ships to install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras.
Richard Fearnside, son of Marianne and Bob Fearnside, of Whitstable, Kent (U.K.), disappeared from the Pride of Kent ferry last May. He was last seen
In the last week, there have been several articles about the cruise industry’s refusal to comply with the requirements of the Cruise Vessel Safety & Security Act to install automatic man-overboard systems.
The spirit and intent of Congress in enacting the legislation, as expressed in several hearings in Washington D.C. which I attended over the
Today the Miami Herald published an article entitled "Overboard Cases on Cruise Lines Often Under-Reported to Public."
What jumps out from the article is that the cruise industry, as a whole, fundamentally still lacks transparency regarding the issue of cruise ship passengers and crew members going overboard on the high seas.
Miami Herald
Multiple news sources are reporting that a woman is missing from the Grand Princess cruise ship.
The U.S. cruise passenger was last seen around noon. News accounts state that the crew of the Princess Cruises ship reported her missing to the U.S. Coast Guard around 1:00 PM.
The Coast Guard deployed a Hercules aircraft to
International news sources are reporting that remains located at the ship wreck of the Costa Concordia are of an Italian woman, an Italian prosecutor said.
"The human remains belong to Maria Grazia Trecarichi," prosecutor Francesco Verusio said.
Newspapers quote Trecarichi’s widower Elio Vincenzi saying:
"I have learned from the press that the remains belong to
Today, after a cruise passenger disappeared from the Princess cruise ship, Sun Princess, the cruise line admitted that "there is no CCTV footage of the man falling overboard" according to Cruise Critic.
How is this possible?
Our U.S. Congress has already enacted legislation requiring that cruise ships implement state-of-the-art technologies to detect man-overboard
A passenger has gone overboard from the Sun Princess cruise ship.
News sources are reporting that a 73 year old man has disappeared from the Princess cruise ship which was sailing from Western Australia to Darwin.
The man was reported missing by his wife.
A search was conducted approximately 40 nautical miles north of Cape
