Newspapers in Brazil are reporting that yesterday the federal police arrested sixteen passengers aboard the Costa Favolosa cruise ship who were reportedly carrying 300 kilos of cocaine in their luggage.
The Costa cruise ship was in the port in Santos, Brazil, on the coast of São Paulo, en route to 
Europe. The newspapers reported
The local police in Madeira arrested a dozen people after the police boarded a cruise ship at port in Funchal for involvement in smuggling cocaine weighing around 18 kilograms and worth two million pounds (£) aboard a cruise ship operated by MSC. The police were assisted by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
The police detained
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of State via the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) issued its annual report regarding the Bahamas. The report (which you can read here) concludes, in part, that:
“There is serious risk from crime in Nassau, and considerable risk in Freeport. Crime represents the country’s primary security threat. Royal Bahamas Police
The Viking Sky cruise ship lost power as it sailed toward Stavanger, Norway in heavy seas and wind today. The cruise ship issued a mayday call and many passengers were evacuated from the cruise ship via helicopter as the ship rocked back and forth in stormy weather.
Passengers were reportedly being hoisted one-by-one by rescue
The U.S. Coast Guard air stations in Atlantic City, New Jersey medevaced a passenger from the MSC Divina cruise ship yesterday, March 19, 2019.
The MSC cruise ship was approximately 100 miles off Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 52-year-old man was reportedly found unconscious on the ship’s pool deck. There is no explanation how or
Several guests aboard the Mariner of the Seas report that a passenger who went overboard from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship tonight has been located and rescued from the water.
Person found alive and brought back onboard.
— Dave Hall (@mortmn) March 19, 2019
I first heard of the overboard and the rescue from updates on Twitter from @kcjarvis who posted information, via a live video “periscope”
NCL’s Norwegian Breakaway failed a recent sanitation inspection conducted by the United States Public Health (USPH) inspectors in New Orleans, Lousianna.
The purpose of the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is to assist the cruise ship industry to “prevent and control the introduction, transmission, and spread of
Carnival Cruise Line suddenly and unexpectedly canceled all future port stops to Antigua, according to the AntiguaNewsRoom today. Carnival’s announcement comes two weeks after Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne accused the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (“FCCA”) of “exploiting the region.”
As reported by the Daily Observer on February 26th, Prime Minister Browne accused the association of
A few minutes ago, the Regal Princess rescued two survivors of a small place crash in the Caribbean.
The Princess cruise ship was heading toward St. Thomas when the captain announced that there were two people in the water after the airplane crashed.
The cruise ship changed course to reach the site of the airplane
High winds reportedly struck the Norwegian Escape last night, causing injuries to passengers as “chairs, tables, glass, people went flying to one side of the ship:”
The scariest shit just happened on this cruise. Chairs, tables, glass, people went flying to one side of the ship😥 @CruiseNorwegian
— … (@GVelez22) March 4, 2019
Don’t @CruiseNorwegian .. 😩 we were told there was a “gust of wind” however the shards of glass all over our room and on bed say otherwise. Also, it’s been 3 hours and no one has come to clean it up. #NorwegianEscape don’t #CruiseNorwegian #ncl pic.twitter.com/niYo35ezxE
— Toniann Dia Mariano (@Toniann_Mariano) March 4, 2019
This morning (around 11 hours later), Norwegian Cruise Line tweeted that on Sunday, March 3rd, just before midnight, the Norwegian Escape encountered a “sudden, extreme gust of