Royal Caribbean and its subsidiary, Celebrity Cruise, have been in a state of panic lately frantically trying to fend off bad publicity surrounding an expose’ on crew member hours, wages and working conditions on the Eclipse which aired in the U.K.
The British television station sent two "undercover" reporters on to the cruise ship, one
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Local NBC 6 reports that Royal Caribbean delayed reporting the disappearance of Allure of the Seas cruise passenger, A’riel Marion, for two hours, even though another passenger on a lower balcony was literally hit on the arm as Ms. Marion fell to the water.
Based on the official report from the United States Coast Guard
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A Swedish newspaper reports that a 28 year old man who forced a younger man to jump off the deck of a cruise ship is under arrest in Stockholm on suspicion of attempted murder.
The incident occurred aboard the Viking Cinderella cruise ship, operated by the Viking Line, last Sunday as the ship was moored
Overboard passengers are hardly unexpected.
All cruise lines have man overboard (MOB) procedures required by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The procedures are fundamentally no different that what is taught to the public in United States Coast Guard (USCG) powerboat courses.
My family took such a USCG course many years ago.
One of
The Royal Gazette newspaper in Bermuda reports today that a passenger from the NCL Norwegian Star was arrested as he tried to disembark the cruise ship with a painting described as the "size of a door."
The 43 year old passenger from Kentucky admitted that he stole the painting from the NCL cruise ship once
Last night in Britain, Channel 4 Television’s "Dispatches" program aired its undercover investigation, "Cruises Undercover," into the hours and working conditions on Celebrity Cruises’ Eclipse cruise ship sailing out of Southampton.
The Twitter feed for "#cruisesundercover" and comments to the Channel 4 website page seems to show the general public’s disgust for the
Cruise Critic reports today that just one month after HAL’s Veendam flunked an inspection by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Blount Small Ship Adventures Grand Mariner’s 100 passenger cruise ship also failed a CDC inspection:
"Moldy ice-cubes, inadequate monitoring of food temperatures, raw meat stored with nonmeat items, ingredient containers left open, dirty
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Today I read an interesting case analysis from the Journal of Business Case Studies (May/June 2012), which studied the business model of the second largest cruise company in the world, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.
The article is entitled "Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.: Innovation At A Cost?" (click on the pdf link)
The article
On Monday October 1st, the U.K.’s Channel 4 Dispatches television is airing a documentary about the working conditions aboard the Celebrity Cruises’ Eclipse cruise ship which is now home ported in Southampton.
The program is called "Cruises Undercover: The Truth Below Deck." Channel 4 describes the program as follows:
Almost two million Brits
Multiple news sources are reporting that a passenger went overboard from a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday. Little information is being released except that the passenger is described as a "British woman" and is apparently in her seventies.
The incident occurred on the Aurora cruise ship as it sailed from the Oporto, Portugal
Below is a CNN video regarding the 16 year old Holland America Line’s Veendam cruise ship which failed an inspection conducted by the Centers for Disease Control.
We blogged about this incident last week in our article:
"Gross! Holland America Line’s Veendam Flunks Health Inspection."
CNN described the ship conditions as "really gross:"
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Eight passengers from the cruise ferry Bahuga Jaya are reported dead after a collision in Indonesian waters.
The LPG tanker Norgas Cathinka struck and sank the Bahuga Jaya, which is a Ro-Ro passenger cruise ferry vessel, near the port of Merak, Indonesia.
The accident took place on Wednesday. Eight passengers on the cruise ferry
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Carnival won its first step in battling lawsuits filed against it arising our of the January 2012 Costa Concordia disaster when a a federal court judge in Florida dismissed a lawsuit filed by Italian businesses against it.
U.S. District Court judge Robin Rosenbaum held that the lawsuits against Carnival should be filed in Italy. 1,000
Lloyd’s List, the well respected shipping industry newspaper, issued its "Seafarer of the Year" award today. And to the surprise of many, the recipients were the crew members of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship.
Lloyd’s List explains that the media has painted the Costa crew with a broad brush as lacking competence
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A news station in Memphis has identified the 21 year old woman who went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas cruise ship on September 16, 2012.
There has been speculation about what happened. This was the overboard where the cruise ship delayed reporting the incident to the Coast Guard for two hours. Some people
A couple of my friends on Twitter asked me about a maritime law blog in Miami which tweets under the Twitter handle @cruiseshiplaw. They were confused whether it was my blog, because it looked strikingly just like mine and had a similar name.
I clicked on the blog and, yes, it looks pretty much just
The maritime lawyers here in Miami have been in a state of outrage following a recent decision from an appellate court in the Estate of Tore Myhra v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Case No. 10-15840 (11th Cir. Sept. 21, 2011).
This case addressed the issue of whether a cruise line could legally enforce
Flies. Dirty and malfunctioning ice machines, refrigerators & dishwashers. More flies. Dust, dirt, food residue, and debris. Flies and more flies. Flies where food is prepared. Flies where food is stored. Ugh. These unsanitary problems are part of a ridiculously long list that the U.S. Centers for Disease documented during a surprise inspection last month aboard
