Experts selected by the Italian magistrate presiding over the investigation into the Concordia disaster have criticized the Costa cruise line in addition to the Concordia cruise ship’s reckless captain.
Notwithstanding the cruise industry’s media campaign to portray the incident as solely the result of Captain Schettino’s renegade conduct, the Italian experts included criticisms of
A couple of days ago I wrote a blog about the police in the Cayman Islands making an arrest of a local man who allegedly sexually assaulted a cruise passenger who was visiting the island.
The newspaper article that my blog was based on was very vague and mentioned only that the alleged rape occurred
Former insurance company president, Ken Carver, discusses the disappearance of his daughter, Merrian Carver, from the Celebrity Cruises ship, the Mercury, and the lies and cover-up by the cruise line which followed.
Ken is the founder and the CEO of the International Cruise Victims (ICV) which he formed in 2006 with a few
Today I was struck by the juxtaposition of two headlines – “Carnival Cruise’s All You Can Drink Alcohol Package Expands” and Passenger “Claims Carnival Cruise Lines Left Her Drunk Husband to Die After He Fell Overboard.”
I have been critical of Carnival’s new all-you-can-drink cruise booze package which is similar to
A newspaper in the Cayman Islands is reporting that the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service is investigating a reported sexual attack on a female cruise ship passenger.
The incident happened on Friday July 27, 2012 according to the local police in the Cayman Islands. The newspaper account is very vague. The newspaper states only that
The Associated Press just published an article about the hundreds of passengers and crew members who have filed suit against Costa and Carnival here in the U.S. following the Costa Concordia disaster.
A number of newspapers are running the story, as well as TIME magazine which carried the article "Passengers Suing Carnival Cruises for Millions
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One of the things about being a maritime lawyer in Miami is that when a cruise ship catches on fire or sinks, the networks will come calling for you to appear on TV.
The cruise lines usually run and hide until the drama is over. But the Miami based maritime lawyers will appear on
The U.S. Coast Guard reports that it medevaced a 50 year old passenger from the Carnival cruise ship Paradise approximately 30 miles west of Venice, Florida last night.
The Coast Guard station in St. Petersburg Florida received a request at 10:30 p.m., from the Carnival Paradise for a medical evacuation of a man who was suffering
Jamaica’s Gleaner newspaper reports that the average amount of money spent by a cruise ship passenger in Jamaica has dropped to just $71.
The hardest hit Jamaican port has been Falmouth where Royal Caribbean convinced the county of Jamaica to spend over $160,000,000 so far to develop the port (at great destruction to
Journalist Robert Anglen has an article today in the Arizona Republic entitled "Stats Don’t Fully Account For All Cruise-Ship Crime." The article was also published in USA TODAY and discusses the false and misleading cruise ship crimes statistics in the FBI database which mentions only 2 cruise ship crimes for the second quarter
Twenty-seven years ago, a state appellate court in Florida held that a cruise line owes its passengers a duty to warn of known dangers beyond the point of debarkation in places where passengers are invited or reasonably expected to visit. Carlisle v. Ulysses Line Ltd., S.A.,475 So. 2d 248, 251 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1985).
The Carlisle
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Recently released "black box" recordings from the Costa Concordia reveal that Captain Schettino deliberately misled his passengers, the Italian Coast Guard and even his wife about the true conditions of the doomed cruise ship.
Immediately after the collision at 9:45 PM, Schettino is heard saying: "Madonna what have I done?"
He then calls the engine
Russell Crowe is one of my favorite actors. He was fantastic in the movie "Master & Commander" where he played the brave, swashbuckling British Captain Jack Aubrey set during the Napoleonic Wars over 200 years ago.
He brilliantly commanded the H.M.S. Surprise, a British frigate, in all types of hellish weather in an effort to
A reader of Professor Ross Klein’s website Cruise Junkie states that the Sun Princess cruise ship lost power for a few hours last week.
The Princess Cruises ship was apparently at the end of a 104 day "world cruise," from Sydney Australia and back.
The Incident allegedly occurred around 4:30 in the morning of Tuesday
Just another day (or night) for the Coast Guard.
When a crew member from the Celebrity Summit cruise ship began experiencing severe abdominal cramping, a Coast Guard station in Elizabeth City, North Carolina launched a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter as well as a HC-130 Hercules aircraft to assist in the medevac. The helicopter had to lower one
The U.S. Coast Guard has been busy rescuing ill people from cruise ships in the past few days. Last week Coast Guard helicopters flew over 1,000 miles round trip to save lives.
Last week started off with the Coast Guard medevacing a 40 year old male crew member from a Celebrity cruise ship approximately
An Italian newspaper, Articolo Tre, and the Crew Center website, are reporting that a U.S. female crew member disappeared from the Costa Favolosa in the sea near Istanbul.
The victim reportedly is an American crew member employed by Costa as a dancer. There are no details in the news article. The Italian newspaper article
