Royal Caribbean started spinning the story on the Freedom of the Seas fire yesterday before the ship stopped burning, saying things like:
It was just a small fire that was quickly extinguished. All systems are operational. Passengers mustered only as a precaution. No injuries to passengers. Guests able to leave the ship to enjoy Falmouth
The cruise industry is trying to put the bad news behind it. Cruise lines are announcing more and more cruise ships coming on line. The industry is moving into the Chinese market with great fanfare. Today Carnival said that it is ready to start cruising from Cuba. Travel agents and reporters are faithfully reporting the
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
This morning Cruise Law News hit a milestone when the 150,000th person “liked” our Facebook page.
The motto of this blog is “everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know.” Our main goal is to educate the public about dangers on cruise ships and in ports of call that the cruise industry would
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