The Department of Transportation (DOT) reported 44 crimes across all cruise lines in Q4 of 2025. Royal Caribbean led the cruise industry in crime while Carnival saw a sharp drop compared to Q3 2025.
The DOT tracks crimes by the quarter they were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of the
A passenger went overboard from the Star Breeze while the cruise ship was sailing off the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. The Windstar Cruises ship sounded a “Code Oscar” after it discovered the passenger was missing.
According to a local media report from Tahiti, the passenger involved is a 66-year-old male from the United
A young man was found deceased aboard Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas while the ship was in port in Singapore on January 19th, 2026. The cruise was finishing its three-night voyage to Penang Island in Malaysia when the incident occurred.
According to Singapore newspaper The Straits Times, police received a call about the
Royal Caribbean canceled all cruise ship visits to its private resort Labadee in Haiti for the remainder of 2026, extending its previous suspension that went through April 2026.
A Royal Caribbean spokesperson told the Miami Herald, “Out of an abundance of caution, we have extended our pause to Labadee.” The cruise line did not
A U.S. Coast Guard Veteran, Jose Martinez, was wrongfully detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in the early morning of Monday, January 5th 2026. Martinez was celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife, Tamara Verhas, on a Carnival Cruise when the incident took place.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the Rotterdam cruise ship operated by Holland America Line (HAL) experienced a norovirus outbreak during the ship’s Caribbean voyage from December 28, 2025 through January 9, 2026.
The Carnival Corporation-owned ship had eighty-one (81) guests and eight (8) crew members sickened with vomiting and diarrhea
A twenty-two year-old man from Huntsville, Alabama, was arrested for possession and transportation of child pornography at Port Everglades on Saturday, after he got off the Majestic Princess, according to Local 10 News.
Federal customs officers conducted a search of Samuel Wolfe Peterson’s cellphone and laptop found about 20 videos of victims as
A sixteen-year-old girl aboard a Carnival cruise ship was allegedly sexually assaulted by another teenager who was arrested by the Royal Bahamian Police in Nassau, Bahamas, according to a Bahamian newspaper. The incident occurred on the Carnival Sunrise on December 29, 2025.
On January 2, 2026, a Bahamian judge granted the assailant an emergency
Two American cruise passengers have been charged with rape after allegedly swapping places to deceive a woman into having sex with them. The incident occured on the Carnival Sunrise on December 15, 2025.
The 25-year-old victim told police in the Bahamas that she met Sayjuan Readous, 26, during the cruise and had a drink with him
A seventy-seven year old passenger reportedly went overboard from Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam in the early morning hours of January 1, 2026 as the cruise ship was returning to South Florida. Online posts on social media show the HAL ship was sailing northeast of Cuba when the incident occurred.
The Nieuw Statendam was on
A 69-year-old grandmother spent several days in the infamous Bahamian Fox Hill Prison after she was arrested for bringing a gun on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
On December 2, Mary Robinson forgot to leave her pistol in her car before she went through security in Port Everglades. Troublingly, port security did not detect the
A Royal Caribbean passenger, Connie Aguilar, is suing the cruise line on behalf of her fiancé who died after he was over served alcohol, and then pepper-sprayed, restrained by security, and injected with a sedative.
The incident occurred on December 13th, 2024, on the first day of a weekend cruise aboard the Navigator of the
AIDA Cruises reported to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that 95 passengers and 6 crew members are sick with norovirus on its AIDAdiva ship. The AIDAdiva is currently in port in Colón, Panama as part of its 133-day cruise originating from Hamburg, Germany.
As part of the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP)
The search for a missing 76-year-old British man has been suspended according to the Spanish Coast Guard. The man, who has not been identified, went overboard from Marella Explorer 2 at approximately 9:45 a.m. on November 27.
A spokesperson from the Spanish Coast Guard told The Sun, “the active search involving the resources that
A passenger was arrested after an alleged assault on an elderly man aboard the Norwegian Encore, according to authorities. The incident took place on Saturday, November 22, and the passenger, Phillip Ortiz, 38, was arrested the same day.
Ortiz has been charged with aggravated battery on a person 65 or older, according to an
A man who allegedly assaulted a teenager onboard the Carnival Mardi Gras on November 22 has been disembarked, according to a tip from a passenger.
Cruise Law News previously reported that the man made a threatening remark before he went to the ship’s teen club and allegedly attacked the teen, who was reportedly “badly injured.”
A passenger aboard the Carnival Mardi Gras contacted Cruise Law News reporting that an adult male passenger assaulted a teenager in the ship’s teen club at around 9:30 pm on November 22.
The tipster, who wishes to remain anonymous, is on the same hall as the alleged assailant and saw him before and after the
An elderly Melbourne man died after going overboard from the Disney Wonder at 4:30 a.m. on November 22nd.
The incident took place in the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand, during the ship’s five-night voyage starting in Melbourne.
The ship changed course at 4:35 a.m. and began a search and rescue operation. The ship’s
