Two adult cruise passengers were arrested last Friday at PortMiami on charges of sexually victimizing a 14 year-old boy on the Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas, according to numerous local news stations.
According to arrest reports from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office , cruise passengers Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal (left photo), age 37
German and Colombian media report that last Friday an excursion boat from the Carnival Corporation-owned AIDAbella cruise ship, with 38 tourists aboard, capsized off the coast of Colombia near the Barú Peninsula, Cartagena, Colombia, according to the popular Crew Center site.
The accident apparently was caused by strong winds and high waves, which overwhelmed
Imagine going on a luxury cruise on Cunard’s Queen Anne which holds more than 3,350 passengers and fares for its first-ever world voyage begin at $16,379 per person, only to be ordered to hide on the ship for two days when passing through the Sulu and Celebes seas? Would you knowingly sign up for this?
There has been a fourth (4th) norovirus outbreak on a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship this year. This time, on March 7th, the virus struck the Rotterdam ship. There were eighty-nine (89) ill passengers and four (4) ill crew members reported with this highly contagious gastrointestinal illness.
There have been ten (10)
The cruise crime data, released earlier this week as part of the quarterly reporting by the Department of Transportation (DOT), again shows that Carnival Cruise Line clearly has the most sexual assaults and rapes as well as the most physical assault with serious personal injuries, both in total numbers and on a per capita basis.
A resident of Polk City, Florida was arrested at the Port of Tampa on charges of possessing and transporting child pornography on the Margaritaville at Sea’s Islander, according to a local news station in Tampa.
James Oxley, age 52, boarded the Islander cruise ship, operated by Margaritaville at Sea, on December 17, 2025 for
There is a reason why Carnival cruise ships have the highest per capita rate of sexual assaults on the high seas, as this case demonstrates.
Last week, after a two-week trial, a federal jury found Jalen Thomas Kelley, age 22, guilty of aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, and assault of a minor aboard the Carnival
A seventy-two year old man was reported missing on Monday morning from the Ruby Princess when it returned to port in San Francisco following a five day cruise to Mexico, according to numerous national and local news stations.
It remains unknown how the man went overboard or the circumstances which led to the incident. A
The Miami-Dade Police Department arrested a passenger who disembarked from an unidentified cruise ship at PortMiami last weekend on charges of “purchasing child sexual abuse material online.”
Miami-Dade Police arrested Nicholas Gardener, age 24, of Brampton, Ontario who was initially held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $50,000 bond for five felony
A sixty-six (66) year-old passenger was reported overboard from the Allure of the Seas cruise ship north of Nassau, Bahamas last night.
Around 9:40 p.m. last night, passengers reported hearing an “Oscar-Oscar-Oscar” announcement. A rescue craft was reportedly deployed to search for the missing woman. The Allure used search lights on the dark waters to