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Anderson Cooper aired a short special last night on his program AC360.
Over and over again, Carnival engineers indicated on their Triumph inspection reports and maintenance records that one of the ship’s diesel generators was way past due for maintenance. The cruise ship was out of compliance with the IMO’s Safety of Life at Sea
The last two days have been busy for the U.S. Coast Guard medevacing ill passengers from cruise ships.
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an 87-year-old woman from the Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship off the coast of Ocracoke, North Carolina yesterday.
The NCL cruise ship contacted the Coast Guard yesterday shortly before noon regarding an elderly passenger
We have asked P&O Ferries’ primary competitors to answer whether they have CCTV cameras on the passenger decks on their ships. We’d like to see whether P&O Ferries is the only U.K. based ferry line not using CCTV cameras to monitor and record the activities on their passenger decks.
France’s MyFerryLink answered today stating only
When the executives at Royal Caribbean trotted out the Oasis of the Seas several years ago, they took special efforts to tout that the evacuation and life saving systems on this huge ship were the best in the world. After all, this was the largest, most technologically advanced, and most expensive cruise ship in the
We have a tradition of decorating our Christmas tree a week before Christmas.
We had a nice night tonight. Johnny Mathis singing his favorite songs of the season. Rum and egg-nog. We listened to the music as we decorated the Christmas tree.
My mother-in-law gave me a little Carnival cruise ship decoration for the tree.
In a story we reported earlier this year, two Filipino crew members were busted smuggling cocaine aboard the MSC Magnifica in April.
The MSC cruise ship arrived at the port of La Coruña on April 11th and the two crew members were arrested after they were caught with 10 kilos of cocaine taped to their
Last week, I received a tip about the Saga Ruby cruise ship (ex – Vistafjord), which is on her last cruise for Saga to the Caribbean from Southampton, that the ship is stranded in Canary Islands due to generator problems.
I had mentioned that the old cruise ship is already apparently sold to Chinese investors and
Bloomberg News reports that Viking Line’s M/S Amorella passenger ferry lost power and ran aground in the Aaland archipelago southwest of Finland.
According to the ferry company’s website, the ship carried 1,945 (with capacity of 2,400) but no one was injured and the passengers will remain on the vessel which will continue its voyage
Dear Ms. Deeble.
Cruise and ferry executives have difficult jobs, I suspect. You have to effectively deal with labor disputes, increasing fuel costs, and price wars with your competitors in an increasing difficult economy. What a headache.
In addition to managing the financial pluses and minuses of your businesses, cruise executives like you also have
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There’s an interesting comment on the popular on line cruise community Cruise Critic that the Allure of the Seas left Nassau 2 hours late yesterday because of an issue with the lift cable of lifeboat number 1. According to this passenger, the cable to the lifeboat apparently snapped and needs repair.
The issue arises whether
Following intense public pressure brought by Richard Fearnside’s mother Marianne, P&O Ferries has posted comments on its Facebook page stating that it will be discussing the use of CCTV cameras with the "wider shipping community" and will be raising this issue with the "UK and European Maritime safety authorities."
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Don’t believe it. This is
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ABC News reports that a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter (MH-60) and aircraft (C-130) were dispatched from Clearwater Florida in response to an emergency request from the Carnival’s Victory cruise ship this morning.
The cruise ship was reportedly near Cuba at the time of the call.
Cruise passenger Herman Lebron, age 88, was suffering from internal injuries
As a maritime lawyer in Miami Florida, I have mostly followed and reported on the schenanigans of the Miami-based cruise lines.
But after learning of the plight of the Fearnside family who lost their son, Richard, on a P&O ferry based in the U.K, I have broadened my horizons.
What on earth is going
A Cruise Law News reader from Australia alerted me of a newspaper article published on Thursday discussing how Miami-based Celebrity sent an elderly couple packing from the Millennium cruise ship a month ago.
The Cairns Post reports on the disturbing story of Celebrity kicking 78 year old cruise passenger Adry Arnold and her husband off
Channel 7 San Diego reports that a Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a woman from a Carnival cruise ship today after she began internally bleeding approximately 600 miles south of San Diego.
The Carnival Miracle contacted the Coast Guard last night, requesting a medevac for the 34-year-old woman.
A helicopter flew from San Diego to met
A reader of this blog from Australia has informed us that Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas cruise ship is delayed at port in the South Pacific due to unspecified problems with the ship.
AIS tracking systems shows the cruise ship in the port of Port Vila, Efate in the Vanautu islands.
We do not
I could not believe my eyes when I read the headline in the Bradenton Herald this morning: “Raising Sunshine Skyway Bridge Could Accommodate Jumbo Cruise Ships.”
Is this some type of April Fools joke?
Apparently not. The newspaper reports that the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is studying whether to raise the Sunshine
The Florida Third District Court of Appeal published a ruling today which is, in a word, shameful.
The case involved allegations by a passenger who sailed on a cruise that she suffered sepsis, multiple organ failure, and a cerebral hemorrhage due to medical malpractice and misrepresentations by a doctor on a Royal Caribbean ship.
According
