A cruise ship employee, who describes himself as a music director of Royal Caribbean, was jailed in Australia for obtaining and accessing child abuse photographs and videos. Forty-four year-old Dana Moran reportedly came to the attention of Australian Border Force officers earlier this year when he flew into Brisbane International Airport. Following a baggage search
A small (178 foot) expedition cruise ship sailing in Glacier Bay National Park caught on fire yesterday morning. The engine room fire required the Wilderness Discoverer to evacuate fifty-one guests and sixteen crew members.
UnCruise Adventures, which operates the ship, said there were no injuries from the fire.
The U.S. Coast Guard in Juneau
The Celebrity Summit is the latest cruise ship to experience a gastrointestinal outbreak requiring the involvement of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) this year. The Celebrity operated cruise ship reported 152 of 2,144 (7.09%) passengers and 25 of 963 (2.60%) crew members experienced gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses . A total of 177 people
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (“FBI”) arrested a cruise passenger last week on charges of abusive sexual contact with a young girl on a cruise ship, according to documents filed in federal court for the Southern District of Florida.
The FBI arrested 47 year-old Justin Dale Sigmon on the Carnival Sunshine when the cruise ship
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has indicated that it is involved in the investigation of the disappearance of 35 year-old Ronnie Peale, Jr. from the Carnival Magic last weekend. A local news station in the cruise ship’s home port in Norfolk, Virginia, 13 News Now, reports that according to the FBI’s Norfolk office, the
The United States Coast Guard ended its massive search for the guest who went overboard from the Carnival Magic as the cruise ship was sailing back from the Bahamas to its home port in Norfolk, Virginia last weekend. A press release by the Coast Guard indicated that the agency spent two and one-half days (60
The Carnival Magic returned to its home port in Norfolk, Virginia early this morning without one of its guests. The Carnival cruise ship arrived back in Norfolk at 5:30 a.m. following a five day cruise to the Bahamas. Yesterday, a passenger was reported missing from the ship “late Monday afternoon,” according to a statement released
A fire erupted on the balcony of a guest cabin on the Pacific Adventure cruise ship around 3:15 A.M. yesterday (Australian time) off the coast of New South Wales. The P&O Cruises’ cruise ship was carrying over 3,000 guests and a crew of over 1,000.
Newspapers reported that many guests were forced to evacuate from
Yesterday, we were informed by a number of guests onboard the Carnival Sunshine that the cruise ship encountered severe weather as the vessel was returning from a cruise to the Bahamas.
What’s the Chinese Proverb? A picture is worth a thousand words?
Rather than try and explain what happened, we will just post some of
The cruise passenger, Jeremy Froias, arrested by the FBI for installing a secret WiFi camera in the unisex public bathroom on the top deck of the Harmony of the Seas last week was released by a federal judge in San Juan Tuesday morning after his wife posted a $25,000 bond.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a cruise passenger last week after it was discovered that he installed a secret camera in a public bathroom on a cruise ship sailing from Miami on a cruise to the Caribbean.
An affidavit from a FBI agent verified that on April 29th, Jeremy Froias boarded the Royal
The MSC Seaside failed a recent health inspection conducted by inspectors at Port Canaveral with a score of just 67. Such a low score is virtually unheard of. There have been only three lower USPH inspection scores in the last twenty years, all involving smaller ships from lesser or hardly known cruise lines. A couple
There were two news stories this past week which prove that the maxim “rich cruise tycoons get richer” remains true while the debt-strapped cruise industry continues to struggle. Business Insider reported that Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. CEO Jason Liberty collected $10,760,000 last year. Meanwhile, crew members on Royal Caribbean cruise ships made a median annual
An Australian passenger has gone overboard from the Quantum of the Seas Wednesday night as the Royal Caribbean ship was sailing from Australia to Hawaii.
We first reported on the situation after reading about it in the popular cruise blog, Cruise Hive, yesterday afternoon.
The incident occurred around 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday (Hawaii-Aleutian standard
A cruise ship nurse reportedly sexually assaulted a U.S. guest on a cruise ship which called yesterday on the port of Nassau in the Bahamas.
The article states that around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 18, 2029, a forty-three year-old female passenger visited the cruise ship’s infirmary for medical attention. “Reports state that it was during
An eighteen year old passenger went overboard from the Costa Toscana last week, according to other guests on the Costa cruise ship. Shortly after the young man went into the water, several passengers sailing on the Costa Toscana tweeted that a man went into water during dinner. A patrol boat operated by the Italian Coast
Two crew members employed by Princess Cruises on a cruise ship in Alaska in the summer of 2019 will now serve decades in prison for their involvement in creating and/or distributing child pornography. One of the men met a sixteen (16) year-old child who was taking an Alaskan cruise with her parents while he was
Last week, a father of four cruising on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship died in Roatan during a stop in that port after he dove into the water from an elevated structure of a pier.
Edmund David Rucker, believed to be 52 years of age, was with his wife and family when the tragic accident
