One of the areas of cruising which we rarely touch upon is ultra-luxury cruising. But today, the press in Australia are covering a terrifying fire which quickly engulfed and sank a "superyacht" with 16 people aboard.
7 News reports that the fire occurred on the 135 foot Seafaris. The 16 people on the yacht
A reader of Cruise Law News sent us photographs of the Oasis of the Seas arriving in port in Cozumel.
Two ambulances arrived next to the Oasis of the Seas at the dock in Cozumel and took injured passengers away to the hospital.
The photos show the ambulance lights next to the Oasis of the
"Freestyle cruising." Carefree and fun? Maybe for the NCL cruise passengers. But hardly for the crew.
After reading this decision, I’ll never think of "Freestyle cruising" as anything less than an abusive work system for the stewards on NCL cruise ships.
The case I am referring to is the opinion released yesterday by the
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Cruise expert Professor Ross Klein reports that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that 307 of 2112 passengers (14.5%) and 14 of 952 crew (1.5%) aboard the Celebrity Summit have reported sick with "gastrointestinal illness."
You can read about the outbreak on the CDC website here.
There is no indication whether the illness is
BBC News has an article about a gastrointestinal virus outbreak sickening passengers aboard a Fred Olsen cruise ship this week.
Last week we reported on the Fred Olsen Black Watch cruise ship (what a dreadful name) which was nicknamed the "Black Death" by norovirus infected passengers who have suffered through three consecutive sailings aboard what
This morning a reader of Cruise Law News sent us photos of the Ruby Princess which broke its mooring lines due to high winds in Kusadasi, Turkey. It drifted out of its berth. Later a tug near the stern of the ship kept it from drifting further from the dock.
One of the photos
This weekend, KHOU news station reports from Galveston, Texas that the Carnival Triumph returned to port Saturday afternoon "after a passenger had a medical emergency."
KHOE didn’t explain the medical emergency but reported that the U.S. Coast Guard said the medical emergency was not life-threatening, "so they did not fly out to the cruise ship." The cruise ship
Royal Caribbean President Adam Goldstein has a strange article this past week on his Sea Views blog. It’s about his cruise line’s "FlowRider" attraction, where passengers attempt to boogie board or surf on a thin water streaming at a high speed across the surface of the attraction.
We have written a number of articles
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Dr. Ross Klein’s Cruise Junkie and Local News Station 5 in Belize are reporting on the arrest of two cruise passengers who went ashore in Belize last week. Both young men were caught with small amounts of pot in Belize’s "tourism village" and were arrested.
As I have mentioned before in a prior article, Reefer
Our law firm receives anywhere from a dozen to several dozen e-mails a day from people complaining about every imaginable problem on the high seas.
We divide the complaints into two general categories – complaints by passengers and complaints by crew members.
Cruise passengers complain about all types of things, like the food was bad
Last week we reported on a norovirus outbreak on the Fred Olsen cruise ship, Black Watch, while sailing to Russia. The cruise ship’s sickened passengers dubbed the ship the "Black Death." One ill cruise passengers was quoted saying:
“The staff marked doors of those infected with a cross. It was like the Dark Ages.
Local news stations in San Francisco are reporting that the U.S. Coast rescued a cruise passengers man suffering from acute kidney failure aboard a Princess cruise ship 40 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday morning.
A 79-year-old Canadian man was demonstrating symptoms of kidney failure while aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship which was
A blog discussing Goa India, and Miami’s Daily Business Review, are reporting on a significant verdict that was recently reached against Miami-based Celebrity Cruises.
The jury verdict involves a Celebrity crew member, Vincente Fernandes, from Goa, India. Back in September 2009, Mr. Fernandes was an assistant stateroom attendant on a Celebrity cruise ship. He
Last week we reported on the death of a passenger aboard the Carnival Dream cruise ship on September 20, 2013.
The incident involved a man who was found unconscious under the water in a hot tub on the cruise ship.
Several news outlets are reporting today that the man was 41 year-old Michael Moses Ward, also
Yesterday morning, CNN’s New Day aired a short program about Captain Schettino’s testimony at his criminal trial. He claims that he is not to blame for the deadly Concordia disaster.
CNN’s Erin McLaughlin reports on the story.
I was interviewed briefly in the program.
You can read about the story here.
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On Sunday we reported on the 3 – 4 hour power failure aboard the Royal Princess when it was sailing in the Mediterranean between Greece and Italy.
The Princess cruise ship finally limped into Naples (where it remains today, see Princess Cruises web cam) and the cruise line canceled the remainder of the cruise. Several
This evening a number of news organizations are reporting that a crew member went overboard from the MSC Opera cruise ship.
BBC News reports that the crew member went overboard when the cruise ship was south of the Isle of Wright.
The News identified the crew member as a 33 year-old Indian national named
In yesterday’s criminal trial against Captain Schettino, the disgraced captain of the doomed Costa Concordia testified that the disaster was not his fault, but was due to the error of the helmsman who failed to promptly follow his orders to turn the cruise ship away from the rocks.
Schettino testified that when he arrived in
