Over the past six weeks, we have received emails from Royal Caribbean crew members saying that the Allure of the Seas has suffered propulsion problems. The crew members have been told by their supervisors to tell the cruise passengers that nothing is wrong.
Well this evening the story broke on Cruise Critic that Royal Caribbean
A federal judge denied Carnival Cruise Lines’ motion to punish a teenager who admitted that she lied when claiming that the cruise ship’s security personnel forced her to remove her tampon in a search for marijuana.
Courthouse News Service reports that one of Carnival’s security officers noticed that a 17-year-old passenger on Sensation cruise
A reader of our Facebook page "Cruise Law News" informs us that the Sun Princess was delayed ten (10) hours departing Sydney last tonight.
The cruise ship’s captain, Andrew Froude, issued a letter which was distributed to passengers informing them that the ship was experiencing technical issues which have prevent our ability to operate
A reader of Cruise Law News sent us photographs of the Oasis of the Seas arriving in port in Cozumel.
Two ambulances arrived next to the Oasis of the Seas at the dock in Cozumel and took injured passengers away to the hospital.
The photos show the ambulance lights next to the Oasis of the
Royal Caribbean President Adam Goldstein has a strange article this past week on his Sea Views blog. It’s about his cruise line’s "FlowRider" attraction, where passengers attempt to boogie board or surf on a thin water streaming at a high speed across the surface of the attraction.
We have written a number of articles
The Bermuda Sun reports that on September 17th a NCL cruise passenger was taken to a hospital in Bermuda after she fell two decks and was seriously injured. The woman was aboard the Norwegian Breakaway.
The newspaper states that “it is unclear where exactly on the mega-ship that the accident took place or how it
A newspaper in Australia reports that a cruise aboard the Dawn Princess for passenger Graham Welsh was suppose to be a vacation of a lifetime. But things began to go wrong when he sustained an injury after roof panels and lights fell on his head in a hallway on the cruise ship. The cruise line
WFTS ABC Action News reports on the case of Dodge Melkonian who fell and broke his hip on the Azamara Journey cruise ship. It’s a story we have mentioned several times here on Cruise Law News.
After the cruise line (Royal Caribbean owns Azamara) left Dodge and his wife, Jill, in a non-English speaking hospital in
When Royal Caribbean decided to be the only cruise line in the world with FlowRiders installed on its cruise ships, the cruise line had to have the FlowRider designed to fit on a ship.
Unlike some surfing simulators on land with long wash-out zones (the space between the top of the ridge and the back
Watch the video of the FlowRider at the top. Looks like fun doesn’t it? The rider surfs on the water and never wipe-outs. Easy right?
Not at all. The person in the video is a skilled and experienced Royal Caribbean employee who has spent many hours riding the FlowRider.
Now take a look at the
The fall-out over Azamara’s abandonment of an elderly couple from Clearwater Florida continues.
The luxury cruise line Azamara, a subsidiary of Miami based Royal Caribbean Cruises, has been accused of abandoning its guest Dodge Melkonian, an 89-year-old World War II veteran, and his wife at a "rural" hospital in Turkey after Mr. Melkonian broke his
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal has affirmed an order of dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds of a case filed by an Italian citizen and Italian business for damages as a result of the Costa Concordia disaster.
In a case styled Giglio Sub, S.N.C. and Francesco Onida versus Carnival Corporation et al., the
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WFTS, an ABC affiliate in Tampa, Florida, reports on a story that we hear about all too often – an elderly passenger is injured during a cruise and ends up alone in a foreign hospital where no one speaks English. The cruise ship then sails off.
In a case which has received attention from
Today local NBC affiliate channel 6 aired a story today about a 9 year old boy who underwent emergency brain surgery after being injured during a cruise sponsored game on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
The incident occurred on the Monarch of the Seas.
The child’s family say that they trusted Royal Caribbean to organize
USA TODAY and the Mirror newspaper in the U.K. report that Princess Cruises has canceled today’s sailing of the Sun Princess, citing a power problem.
The Sun Princess is an 18 year-old cruise ship which just had a $30 million make-over. It was scheduled to sail a 14-night voyage from Singapore to Freemantle
Celebrity Cruises Millennium cruise ship that was grounded in Alaska last week is having trouble again.
Celebrity Cruises said in a statement:
Due to a mechanical problem in one of Celebrity Millennium’s two propulsion units, the ship returned to Ketchikan last night, The ship is capable of sailing without the affected unit. However, in an
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Over thirty years ago, I graduated from Tulane School of Law which had, and still has, one of the best maritime law curriculum programs in the U.S.
In law school, I took courses as a second and third year law school student in Maritime Personal Injury & Death, Maritime Jurisdiction, Maritime Insurance and Carriage of
Yesterday we mentioned that the first case filed in Galveston by a passenger following the infamous Triumph "poop cruise" was voluntarily dismissed. But today there is news that additional lawsuits were just filed in southeast Texas for damages alleged by passengers who sailed aboard the ill-fated Carnival cruise.
The Southeast Texas Record reports that
