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An Australian newspaper reports that a passenger aboard the Spirit of Tasmania ferry, traveling from Melbourne to Tasmania, went overboard last night when the ship was a little over 40 miles south-east of Victoria’s Port Phillip Heads.
Passengers on the Spirit of Tasmania reportedly saw a 45-year-old man fall into water. The ferry turned around
A reader of Cruise Law News brought to my attention that a crew member disappeared at sea from a ferry operated by Irish Ferries from Rosslare, Ireland to Pembroke, Wales yesterday. A number of newspapers have reported that a a large air and sea search was just suspended after the crew member apparently went overboard into
On the heels of the passenger going overboard yesterday from the Carnival Liberty, I have learned from several passengers on the Coral Princess that a passenger went overboard from the Princess cruise ship on May 11th.
A passenger on the Coral Princess tweeted earlier this week:
"Captain of the Coral Princess, my home away
Passengers aboard the Carnival Liberty and a local news station in Houston are reporting that a thirty-three year old passenger went overboard early this morning.
The missing passengers has been identified as Samantha Broberg who was initially reported missing by her traveling companions.
The Carnival cruise ship was apparently not equipped with a automatic man overboard
The Jamaica Observer reported today that the police in Jamaica are seeking the public’s assistance in locating two cruise ship passengers who went missing yesterday.
The newspaper identified U.S. citizens, 33-year-old Hayden Gerson and 32-year-old Alisha Frank. These two Americans were passengers on a unidentified cruise ship which docked in Falmouth Jamaica. (Readers have quickly told
I have received inquiries on Facebook for information regarding a person overboard from the Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas who apparantly disappeared into the water late last night.
Passengers on the ship are stating that there was an “Oscar, Oscar, Oscar” (man overboard) announcement around 11:00 P.M. The cruise ship began a search. Lighted
Last year, crew members aboard the Cunard QM2 notified me that while the Cunard cruise ship was between Southampton and New York, a 26-year-old chef, whose name I later learned was Favio Onate, disappeared in the early hours of August 15, 2015. I wrote a short article Cunard Crew Member Lost at Sea, which was
The crew center website is reporting that authorities in Chile are investigating the disappearance of a Filipino crew member who went overboard from NCL cruise ship Norwegian Sun yesterday. The NCL crew member is identified as Dominic Santiago Gubertino age 55.
The circumstances reported regarding the crew member’s disappearance indicate that the Norwegian Sun was
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The World of Cruising reports that a passenger from the Saga Sapphire went overboard from the cruise ship while the ship was cruising across the Atlantic Ocean.
The magazine’s Facebook page says that "a passenger has gone missing from cruise ship Saga Sapphire in the middle of the Atlantic. The ship, specializing in holidays for the
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Here at Cruise Law News, we try to stay on top of "everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know." Sometimes, for various reasons, we don’t hear of significant events, such as cruise ship fires.
A reader on our Facebook page brought to our attention that we missed reporting about a fire which
The Port Authority of Genoa is engaged in the research of a 75 year old woman who disappeared last night from the MSC Opera arriving from Civitavecchia to the port of Genoa.
An Italian newspaper says that the passenger was not aboard the MSC cruise ship when it arrived in Genoa.
Searches are under
According to Professor Ross Klein’s Cruisejunkie, the Italian newspaper Il Tirreno reports that a 43 year old U.S. woman went overboard when the Star Breeze cruise ship was between Civitivecchia and Portoferraio. She was traveling with her boyfriend and a group of friends.
The translated account says that it is unknown how the passenger
A video posted by a passenger on YouTube shows a man holding on to the support bracket of a lifeboat when his hands apparently slip and he falls overboard from the Oasis of the Seas last night around 1:00 A.M.
The video (warning, graphic content, available on Sun-Sentinel) taken by another passenger from a higher
The Times of India reports that Star Cruises has agreed to show the CCTV video of the circumstances when SuperStar Gemini cruise passenger Raj Kumar Agarwal went overboard from the SuperStar Gemini last week.
As we previously reported, Mr. Agarwal disappeared from the cruise ship on the late hours of October 6th / early
Newspapers in India are reporting that a thirty year old male Indian passenger disappeared in the Strait of Malacca from the SuperStar Gemini operated by Star Cruises.
Rajkumar Agarwal, from Calcutta, India, was cruising with his extended family who boarded the SuperStar Gemini on October 4th. He is the youngest of three brothers and was
Last night a reader of this blog sent me an AIS screen shot of the P&O Ventura sailing in circles south of the Isle of Wight in an apparent attempt to search for an overboard passenger.
This morning the British press is reporting that a passenger went overboard fron the Ventura around 04:30 BST as it
A number of new sources are reporting that a woman went overboard from the Seabourn Quest this evening. The cruise ship had left Boston and was headed for Bar Harbor, Maine.
The Glouster Times reports that a woman fell off the Seabourn cruise ship 10 miles off the Cape Ann coast tonight. The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched a
There is a report of a "man overboard" this afternoon from the Carnival Glory cruise ship.
A reader from Honduras listening to channel 16 heard the report and said that the Honduran Navy and locals were searching for a person overboard at certain coordinates in Honduran waters.
A person also notified me on my Facebook
