MSNBC has an interesting article today by travel columnist, Christopher Elliott, entitled Staying Safe on the High Seas.
Mr. Elliott reports on the new cruise ship security and safety law signed by President Obama, the problem of sexual assaults, noro-virus, and medical facilities aboard cruise ships.
The article quoted me saying that:
"The last place you want
When my friends in my home state of Arkansas ask me how I like living in Miami, I give them the same answer – I love it, because I have always wanted to live in a foreign country.
Miami is the melting pot of the Caribbean. It is the number one place where immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, the
Today we received emails commenting on the bad medical treatment provided on board Royal Caribbean cruise ships and the recent $2,900,000 verdict against the cruise line for its negligent medical treatment rendered to an injured crew member from Nicaragua. Here are the emails:
On the $2,900,000 verdict we reported on last week: “Having worked for
Mail Online has published new photographs of the Costa Classica cruise ship following the October 18th collision with the bulk carrier Lowlands Longevity as the two vessels headed into port in Shanghai.
We reported on this yesterday: Costa Classica Cruise Ship Collides with Cargo Ship.
The photographs show a large gash into the passenger
The Costa Classica cruise ship operated by Costa Cruises collided with a cargo vessel at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
The Shanghai Daily reports that the ship suffered a long gash over 60 feet long in its side and several passengers were injured. Three passengers were transferred to hospital ashore.
The accident happened in the early morning hours this morning as
A Korean television station is reporting that more than 30 Chinese tourists remain missing in Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju after 44 of them abandoned a tour group from a cruise ship.
The Chinese passengers arrived on the Italian cruise ship Costa Classica Sunday in Jeju from Shanghai and went to visit tourist sites on the island but did not return
This was another interesting week in the strange world of cruise law news.
The week ended with a Miami jury awarding $2,900,000 in compensation for an injured Royal Caribbean crew member whose knee was butchered by a doctor in Nicaragua, which I mentioned in yesterday’s blog. The trial highlighted the cruise line’s practice of keeping
Today a jury in Miami, Florida returned a verdict in the amount of $2,900,000 in favor of a disabled Royal Caribbean crew member who received terrible medical treatment after the cruise line sent her back to Honduras.
The case brings attention to the problem many Royal Caribbean crew members experience when they are injured while working for
Just when you think you have seen everything, I ran across an advertisement for a "Spy Cruise."
"SpyCruise®" advertises itself as "a private group aboard a cruise ship where members attend exclusive lectures and talks on espionage, spies, intelligence, counterterrorism and more. Speakers are intelligence experts, leaders, officers, operatives, analysts, authors and historians, many of
The Coast Guard is reporting that it medically evacuated a 17-year-old female passenger from a cruise ship 83 nautical miles southeast of Wilmington, N.C. Monday.
Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads received a phone call from a crewmember aboard the cruise ship Carnival Pride at approximately 8 p.m. stating that there was a female aboard who
An article this morning in the Chicago Tribune caught my attention – "Compensation Doesn’t Float After Cruise Ship Skips Port." The article involved a family’s request for a refund after a cruise ship missed one of the scheduled ports of call. Instead, the cruise line issued a $500 credit toward a future cruise – $200 for each parent
This month is the 25th year anniversary of the death of cruise ship passenger Leon Klinghoffer, an American Jew, who was killed by Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship he was sailing on with his wife in the Mediterranean Sea in 1985.
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Mr. Klinghoffer, age 69, was from New York City and was vacationing with his wife, Marilyn, and their friends when four heavily
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BBC News reports that a passenger is missing from the Fred Olsen 1,350 passenger cruise ship Balmoral, which is due to return to Dover tomorrow after a 21-day Adriatic cruise.
The cruise ship was in the English Channel when the unidentified passenger was noticed to be missing. A Royal Navy frigate, the HMS Westminster, is taking part in the
Its been eight years since Dianne Brimble died on the floor of a P & O cruise ship, in the cabin of one of the infamous "gang of eight" who likened Ms. Brimble to a dog with bad breath who they contemplated throwing overboard.
Her tragic death was one of the stories which I wrote often about when I started this blog:
Over 200 passengers were rescued after an explosion rocked the Lithuanian passenger and car ferry, Lisco Gloria, which was on route from the German port of Kiel to Klaipeda in Lithuania. A fire then engulfed the ferry which had 236 passengers and crew on board. Over 20 people on the ferry reportedly were injured.
Today I created a Facebook page for Cruise Law News.
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Instead of posting links on my personal page on Facebook, I will be posting links to this blog and other cruise and maritime articles on the Facebook page for Cruise Law News. Now, anyone who is a member of Facebook can leave comments, links to cruise articles and
Cruise Law News is a big fan of the United States Coast Guard which came to the rescue of a 79-year-old passenger aboard the Carnival cruise ship Spirit yesterday.
According to 10News.com, the Carnival cruise ship was about 570 miles south of San Diego when the vessel notified the USCG that a passenger was experiencing health problems. At around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, a
Our firm is investigating the tragic death of a young girl who was shot and killed while ashore in St. Thomas during a cruise. This child was one of hundred of thousands of passengers who sail into this beautiful island each year without realizing that St. Thomas has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. It’s murder rate this year
