In a weird ending to a weird cruise story, two California men who were arrested on the Celebrity Summit cruise ship while it was docked in Dominica pleaded guilty to indecent exposure at a hearing yesterday and were then ridiculed by a local magistrate.
Yesterday we mentioned the bizarre circumstances surround the Atlantis Events cruise:
Another Atlantis gay cruise resulted in public controversy yesterday when police in Dominica arrested two passengers on the Celebrity Summit on suspicion of indecent exposure and “buggery” (sodomy).
Someone on the dock supposedly observed the passengers having sex on the cruise ship. The two arrested passengers were men in their 40’s from California. Newspaper accounts
Yesterday, New York lawyers for Costa Concordia cruise survivors filed an amended lawsuit in Miami, adding 33 additional passengers as plaintiffs. The lawyers are seeking $78 million in compensatory damages and $450 in punitive damages for a total amount of $528 million on behalf of 39 passengers.
Although the lawyers called the original filing a "class action" lawsuit, the case was
Today I was reading Yahoo News when I saw a weird story featured on the front page about a cruise ship named "iglu cruise ship" in the Caribbean where you can snow ski on the top deck. I clicked on it the link which took me to the article below.
Yes, there is an iglucruise website; it is
A life sentence in jail was imposed today on a cruise passenger by a Federal District Judge for a murder on a cruise ship which occurred two years ago.
In July 2009, Robert and Shirley McGill cruised to Cabo San Lucas aboard the Carnival Elation cruise ship to celebrate Mr. McGill’s 55th birthday and his wife’s retirement.
But following
The Australian Broadcasting Network just published a weird and disturbing report that the Scientology organization held a young woman against her will on its cruise ship, the Freewinds, which the Scientologists home port in Curaçao.
The report involves Valeska Paris who was born into a Scientology family. Her father, once a millionaire, alleged that
Yesterday, a jury convicted a Chinese passenger of murder after finding that he threw his wife off a cruise ship.
The Standard newspaper in Hong Kong reports that Wang Weile, age 49, shook his head in disbelief when the seven member jury returned its guilty verdict. The judge then sentenced him to life imprisonment.
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As we reported in our article about this bizarre crime earlier
What do you do if you accidentally knock your wife unconscious when she tries to commit suicide on a cruise? Do you throw her overboard after suddenly remembering that she wanted to be buried at sea?
Yes, pretty far fetched. But that is exactly the defense offered in a criminal trial against a Chinese cruise passenger who is
One of the categories I have for my Cruise Law News blog is "weird cruise news."
Why such a category?
For stories just like this:
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The Nassau Guardian published an article today about a Royal Caribbean crewmember, employed as a stateroom attendant, who was accused of raping a young woman on Royal Caribbean’s Sovereign of the Seas cruise
A Carnival crewmember found a dead baby in a passenger cabin this week. The child is apparently the newborn baby of a twenty year old passenger.
The disturbing discovery occurred aboard the Carnival Dream cruise ship. Carnival released a statement indicating that Dutch authorities detained the mother in St. Maarten, where the cruise ship called on Wednesday. The FBI boarded the Dream
Multiple news sources are reporting that a passenger threw his 7 year old son overboard from the Pavillion Queen, which is being referred to as either a cruise ship or sight seeing boat.
The incident occurred yesterday afternoon, when Sloane Briles, age 35, was sailing on a sight seeing cruise in Newport Harbor, California with his girlfriend and two sons, ages
The Miami Herald reported that Discovery Cruise Line, which is known f
or operating day cruises to the Bahamas plans to discontinue services starting September 7.
It is unknown whether this is a temporary hiatus or whether the cruise liner is going out of business for good. According to the Herald, the cruise line announced
Last November, Cruise Law News (CLN) reported on the drunken cruise ship passenger who reportedly snuck into the control room and dropped anchor while the ship was sailing back to Tampa from Mexico.
Daniel Castillo, Ehlert’s defense attorney now claims that Rick Ehlert admits to being intoxicated and sneaking into the control room to drop
This weekend I ran across an interesting tweet "Scuttled cruise ship on Google Maps" from Brian Major (@cruiseprguy) who handles PR for some of the cruise lines. I could not resist clicking on the link.
His tweet linked to an interesting article in Geek O System about the World Discoverer, a German cruise ship built in
The New York Daily News published a weird cruise story this morning about a man from Malaysia who smuggled nine illegal Chinese immigrants into Brooklyn aboard the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested five women and four men after the luxurious QM2 arrived at the New York Cruise Terminal in Red Hook.
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Before Royal Caribbean lost its mind and created the ‘Nation of Why Not" (which seems like a rip-off of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman’s "What Me Worry?"), the cruise line used a snappy song called "Lust for Life" as part of its Get Out There! marketing campaign.
You remember the video – passengers hiking on a glacier, dog sledding and
Gene Sloan’s popular cruise blog on USA Today’s CruiseLog has an article today of particular interest to me – A Cruise to Libya? Another Line Puts it on the Schedule.
Gene reports that Azamara Cruises’ 694-passenger Azamara Quest will visit Libya’s Al Khums and Tripoli during a Mediterranean voyage that begins on Oct. 16,
Over a decade ago, maritime attorney Jeffrey Maltzman (photo below, middle) opened up the Miami office of the California law firm of Kaye Rose and Partners. Over the course of the past ten years, Mr. Maltzman created a firm of around twenty-five lawyers which represented Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Princess Cruises in a variety of passenger and crewmember cases.
