Some of the critics of Cruise Law News say that I unnecessarily include sensationalist information in my blog. My response is that it’s hard to report on developments in the world of cruising and not sound sensational when cruise ships are on fire, sinking and being chased by pirates.
But today, I read a few
The "environmental report card" for the cruise industry is out and the grades for some of the major cruise lines are ugly.
Costa, Crystal and P&O Cruises all received failed grades on the report card prepared by the highly respected environmental group Friends of the Earth ("FOE"). The non-profit organization analysis the cruise lines’ environmental
The major cruise lines have reduced prices for this winter and early 2013 sailings by around 3.5 percent since late September, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
Cruise line operators started this year hoping that they could start charging passengers higher prices after offering discounts following the 2007-2009 recession. But then two weeks into the year, disaster
A year ago, Carnival Cruise Line unexpectedly abandoned Mobile, Alabama as a cruise port.
Carnival cited rising fuel costs and an inability to raise prices for its cruises out of the cruise terminal in Alabama. The unexpected news shocked local officials in Mobile which had worked for a decade to lure the cruise line to
Today, our firm was retained to help the family of missing HAL cruise passenger Jason Rappe’ find answers to what happened during the evening of November 28th and the early morning hours of November 29th aboard the Holland America Line Eurodam cruise ship.
On November 24th, 41 year old Jason Rappe’ and his wife, Tine
Last month, two cruise ships from Miami-based cruise lines arrived in New Orleans. NCL’s Norwegian Star, with capacity for around 2,300 passengers, transitioned to the "Big Easy" and relieved the Norwegian Spirit which had been home-ported there.
Royal Caribbean moved the Navigator of the Seas, a larger ship with a capacity of around
Multiple news sources are reporting that a passenger has gone overboard in the Caribbean earlier this morning. The passenger, age 41, is from Washington and was traveling with his wife.
The passenger’s wife reportedly discovered her husband missing from the Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship Eurodam. The U.S. Coast Guard said that, according
The lawyers here at Cruise Law are traveling again to Jamaica. We will be visiting our clients to see how they are doing. We will also make ourselves available to meet with any crew members (or their family members) who need to learn about the legal rights of cruise ship employees if they become ill or
Miami’s Daily Business Review reports today that Micky Arison paid himself a "special year-end dividend" of $90,000,000. Yes, that’s 90 million dollars.
Cruise CEO Arison is not the only executive in Florida lining his pockets, as the Review states that other executives in Florida are paying themselves dividends in the range of $250,000 to
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Disney Cruise Line has kicked off its promotion of the Disney Wonder cruise ship sailing from Miami starting December 23, 2012.
Fort Lauderdale’s Sun Sentinel newspaper reports today that "Captain Mickey Mouse officially kicked-off the countdown for the arrival of the Disney Wonder to PortMiami with a Disney-style unveiling of a larger than life
One of the most dangerous activities you can participate in during a cruise is found only on Royal Caribbean’s cruise ships. It’s the "FlowRider," a simulated surfing and water-boarding activity where a thin stream of water shoots up a sloped platform to create a wave-like flow of water.
Wipe-outs are expected. But what is
The America Blog published an article ("Carnival Cruises Bans ‘Drag’ on Drag Cruise") this evening about Carnival’s bizarre decision to threaten to kick any of their guests who dress in drag off of the December 2nd cruise aboard the Carnival Glory cruise ship.
The particularly strange part of the story is that the sailing is a
A newspaper in Oman published a report today indicating that a cruise ship, approximately 15 nautical miles off Masirah Island (east of Oman) "was aggressively approached by two skiffs suspected of belonging to Somali pirates" on November 23rd. The newspaper reports that the two skiffs ended their pursuit only when a shipboard private security team fired
A Thanksgiving Day diving trip in South Florida turned deadly when a 45-foot catamaran, the Coral Princess, flipped over and dumped nearly two dozen people into the water as the vessel was returning to shore.
One person, Nina Poppelsdorf, age 54, from New Mexico, drowned after she was caught under the hull of the
The U.S. Coast Guard issued a press release today stating that an eighty foot yacht caught fire off of Miami Beach this morning.
The incident occurred around 10 a.m. today. The 110-foot Coast Guard cutter Sitkinak was in the process of boarding a vessel when the 80-foot motor yacht Bliss caught on fire before
The Voyager of the Seas has returned to Australia today after a 18 night cruise. Like the previous cruise, this cruise aboard the Voyager ended with the cruise ship arriving in port with what appears to be hundreds of cruise passengers infected with norovirus.
We are beginning to receive emails from passengers who were sickened
A fire erupted on an Anek Lines cruise ferry (ro-ro) off the coast of Greece earlier this week.
On November 19th, a blaze started on the car deck of the Kriti II (built 1979) while the ferry approached Patras after sailing from Venice, Italy.
There were around 113 passengers on board, plus a crew of
A newspaper in Finland is reporting that twenty crew members received injuries during a lifeboat drill aboard the Findlandia cruise ship operated by Eckerö Line in Tallinn.
The newspaper states that crew members suffered broken bones and sprained ankles, as well as friction burns caused by trying to slow their descent during the steep drop into a
