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
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals: Cruise Lines Have Duty to Warn of Danger of Crime in Ports of Call
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
Port of Miami Cruise Webcam
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Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
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
Master & Commander, or Not? U.S. Coast Guard Rescues Actor Russell Crowe
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
Sun Princess Loses Power
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
Coast Guard Medevacs Crew Member From Cruise Ship, 290 Miles at Sea!
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
Coast Guard Busy Making Long Distance Medevacs of Ill Cruise Ship Patients
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
American Crew Member Goes Overboard From Costa Cruise Ship
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
Did Princess Cruises Fail to Rescue a Second Fishing Boat?
Princess Cruises released a press release today claiming that the fishing boat observed and photographed by several passengers on the Star Princess cruise ship is not the Fifty Cents fishing boat which contained three young men from Panama.
You will recall that two young Panamanian fisherman died after a cruise ship failed to stop and
CruiseMates “Most Ridiculous Cruise Ship Lawsuits” Article Forgets P&O Cruises History of Exploitation of Women
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CruiseMates recently ran an article by its editor Paul Motter entitled "Most Ridiculous Cruise Ship Lawsuits." One of the lawsuits was filed by a 50 year old lady passenger aboard a P&O cruise ship who attended a talent show dressed in a leopard skin dress who sang a Tina Turner song River Deep Mountain
Man Overboard: What Really Happened Aboard the Carnival Fascination?
After a 31 year old passenger went overboard from the Carnival Fascination cruise ship into the dark waters off of the Florida coast last night around 2:00 AM, all of the major news sources and cruise friendly bloggers all lined up to dutifully repeat verbatim what the Carnival PR people fed to the public:
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Passenger Missing From Carnival Fascination Cruise Ship
Several news stations are reporting that a 31 year old man went overboard last night from the Carnival Fascination cruise ship.
Newspapers are reporting that a Carnival crew member observed the passenger jumping off the top deck of the ship into the water. The ship had left Jacksonville around 5:00 P.M and was heading to
Headline News: “Horror on the High Seas: Rape Alleged on Cruise”
Last night HLN reported on the highly publicized sexual assault incident on the Carnival Sensation cruise ship. A 15 year old girl alleges that she was gang-raped inside a cabin during a Caribbean cruise. A 31 year old man allegedly encouraged two underage boys to join him in sexually assaulting the girl.
Jim Moret interviews our
Cruise Ship Rape: International Cruise Victims’ Vice President Advocates For Cruise Ship Rape Victims
Tonight CNN’s Headline News ("HLN") featured an interview with the Senior Vice President of the International Cruise Victims ("ICV") regarding the latest cruise rape story involving a thirty-one year old man who participated in and encouraged the gang rape of a fifteen year old victim aboard a Carnival cruise ship.
ICV VP Laurie Dishman
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Royal Caribbean Smears Crime Victim & Gets Cozumel Rape Lawsuit Thrown Out Before Trial
A trial scheduled this month involving a Royal Caribbean cruise passenger who alleges she was gang-raped while ashore in Cozumel was averted when the federal court judge granted a motion filed by the cruise line to end the case.
The order granting Royal Caribbean’s motion was posted on line by Leagle yesterday and can be
Rape of 15 Year Old Girl Is Latest Crime Against Children on Carnival Cruises
The alleged gang rape of a fifteen year old girl on the Carnival Sensation cruise ship has received international coverage with news stations across the U.S. and even the U.K. press covering the disturbing story of how a 31 year old passenger reportedly bought alcohol for four underage boys and they took turns raping the