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.
https://twitter.com/mortmn/status/1107858110486597633
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
— Gabriel™️ (@GVelez22) March 4, 2019
https://twitter.com/Toniann_Mariano/status/1102463676458717184
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
The Carnival Victory reportedly lost power for several hours late this afternoon, according to passengers posting on social media.
Passengers on the ship report that the at some point after 5:00 P.M., the Carnival Victory lost power and the ship went dark. (Several passengers mentioned that the ship lost power as early as 3:15 P.M.).
The United States State Department issued another travel warning for the Bahamas today.
The U.S. State Department reissued a “Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution Due to Crime” for the Bahamas, stating:
“Violent crime, such as burglaries, armed robberies, and sexual assault, is common, even during the day and in tourist areas. Although the
According to videos posted on the popular Noticias de Cruceros, two cruise ships operated by MSC Cruises collided at the port in Buenos Aires yesterday.
The YouTube videos shows the MSC Orchestra and the MSC Poesia colliding at the port. There are no reports of personal injury, not is there any explanation for the
On Thursday, February 14, 2019 a cruise passenger was reportedly seriously injured in a bus excursion accident in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
We were informed that the passenger was injured in a bus/auto accident while on a cruise sponsored tour after the Allure of the Seas arrived in San Juan. The women reportedly had to
After the Norwegian Epic finally arrived in San Juan (after it experienced partial power loss causing NCL to cancel ports of call in Tortola and St. Thomas yesterday) reportedly via tugs on the starboard side, the NCL ship struck a pier in port and collapsed a portion of the dock.
TweetsWithTito videotaped the Norwegian Epic
The Norwegian Epic sustained power loss yesterday during its current cruise to the Caribbean, requiring the NCL cruise ship to divert to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Epic left Port Canaveral, Florida on February 9th heading toward Tortola, British Virgin Islands where it was scheduled to arrive this morning around 8:00 a.m. It was then
A fire broke out on the Carnival Sensation as the Carnival cruise ship was returning to Miami at the end of a short cruise to the Western Caribbean. The cruise ship left Miami, Florida on February 7th to Key West and was scheduled to call on Cozumel, Mexico and then return to Miami today.
The
The Mariner of the Seas returned to the port of Miami this evening due to an injured passenger requiring emergency medical treatment.
@RoyalCaribbean really didn’t let us on CocoCay😔then someone broke their pelvic bone so here we are at the port of Miami..but the servers are GREAT!!!
— 🔥La Reina🔥 (@CamrynCharles_) February 10, 2019
A passenger on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship informed me that there was an “alpha 
call today for the sports deck” earlier today. The ship returned to Miami and an ambulance took
The Sun Sentinel recently reported on a lawsuit filed against Holland America Line arising out of a stroke suffered by a 65 year old woman while aboard the M/S Zuiderdam in March of 2018.
Lila Graciela Kohn Gale reportedly suffered a hemorrhagic stroke shortly after the HAL cruise ship left Ft. 
Lauderdale at the start
Three cruise visitors to Antigua, two from an unidentified MSC cruise ship and one from the P&O Brittania, were recently attacked and robbed in St. John’s in separate crimes according to the Antigua Observer.
The two crimes were violent.
The local police arrested two men, 20-year-old Joel Richards and 19-year-old Anderson Garcia, who are
