The United States Coast Guard is reporting that it last night it medevaced a 77 year old female cruise ship passenger suffering from a stroke approximately 200 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina.
The ill woman was on the Carnival Pride.
The Coast Guard air crew arrived on the scene at at sea on scene
Today I received a nice "thank you" from an anonymous cruiser who, as she says, stumbled on this website:
Thank you sooo much for your web site. Stumbled upon it looking for cruise ship deals for myself and my teenage daughter. We were not aware of the dangers of the ports. Thank you for
Yesterday, Carnival announced its new cruise brand, "fathom" (no capitalization), at a press conference in New York City. It said that the one-ship brand has an "unique business model for sustained impact and lasting development" with a "global vision that reaches beyond what the world has ever seen."
Carnival claims that "fathom" will focus on
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A number of news sources report that SeaWorld’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), James Heaney, will be joining Carnival Cruise Line as CFO next month. Mr. Heaney worked at SeaWorld since 2011.
As the movie Blackfish reveals, SeaWorld profits by forcing captive orcas, which swim a hundred miles a day in the wild, to entertain tourists. The
Adweek reports that Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is searching for a new advertising agency. The Martin Agency has handled NCL’s "creative and media business" since 2011.
NCL reportedly spent $33 million in 2014, down from $45 million in 2013.
Adweek says that NCL’s plans to change its advertising agency "comes amid a search by competitor
Yesterday a cabin attendant discovered two cruise passengers dead in their cabin on the Holland America Line (HAL) Ryndam.
The proper procedure for the cruise line to follow is for the crew member(s) to immediately leave the cabin, lock the door and call security who, in turn, will secure the cabin and assign a
The International Cruise Victims (ICV) organization just announced that it is expanding in Europe.
The ICV is a grass root non-profit organization operated by victims of crimes and families who have lost loved ones at sea. The ICV and the families have been successful in the scheduling of 8 Congressional hearing in the U.S. Senate and
Anyone who has attended a Cruise Shipping Miami convention knows that cruise executives make comments which hype the cruise industry.
It’s interesting to attend the convention and watch the cast of characters. Who will say the greatest whopper in their efforts to promote the cruise industry? The executives are all type A personalities, full of
People complain that I write only negative stories about the cruise lines. Crime, fires, overboard passengers, greedy cruise executives, mistreatment of crew members, blah, blah, blah, does it ever end they ask?
It’s a good question, I suppose. Lots of things go wrong during cruises. I have an endless source of materials for stories to
Every year or so, a travel agent with a blog will take it upon himself to level personal insults against us in a half-baked effort to defend the cruise industry.
One year ago, Richard Turen, a CLIA-certified travel agent, criticized me in an ill-conceived article which appeared in Travel Weekly. Mr. Turen’s blog, the
Advertising Age reports that Carnival Corporation will be advertising its first Super Bowl commercial next year. Carnival has prepared four possible one-minute commercials as part of its multi-brand marketing initiative.
Each year, around ten million people a year sail on a Carnival brand, such as Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Seabourn
According to the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA), more cruise passengers have sailed in Florida and around the world than ever before.
Last year, the number of passengers taking cruises on North American cruise lines increased approximately nearly 4 percent to 17,600,000.
6,150,000 passengers sailed from Florida, an increase of 1.3 percent to 6.15 million
Reuters reports that Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) is in "advanced talks" to purchase Prestige Cruises for approximately $3 billion.
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King 5 TV reports that there has been a drop in the number of departures of cruise ship and cruise passengers through Seattle.
The video below features the Carnival Miracle which arrived back in Seattle after a cruise to Alaska.
805,000 passengers and 178 cruise ships will pass through Seattle during the May-September cruise season.
The murder of the three Jewish boys in the West Bank last week was about the worst thing I have heard of recently until learning of the retaliatory murder of the 16 year old Palestinian boy whose burned body was found in East Jerusalem.
Hamas and Israel are now exchanging rocket and bomb strikes.
The Miami Herald just published an article about Arnold Donald, who has now spent one year at the helm of Carnival Corporation after Micky Arison selected him following a series of disasters (Costa Concordia, Carnival Triumph, etc.) The article is entitled One Year In, Carnival CEO Arnold Donald is Working to Right the
For the past week I have watched specials on television and read articles about the Korean ferry disaster when the Sewol capsized with several hundreds school children aboard.
I have been asked to provide interviews on CNN and radio talk shows.
All of the television and radio interviewers invariably asked about the similarities between the
The last two weeks has been an eye opener for knowledgeable tourists thinking of traveling to Roatan. A cruise line employee was gunned down near the port. The bloody death was widely reported in the local newspapers which published gruesome photographs of the dead crew member.
As a result, a major cruise line temporarily pulled
