A forensic medical expert in Australia, appalled by the high number of rapes and disappearances of passengers on cruise ships, has written a novel to bring awareness to the problem of crime while cruising.
Dr. Kathryn Fox appeared on an Australian morning television program to discuss her book "Cold Grave" about the death, murder and
A local news station in central Florida is reporting that a 15 year old cruise passenger alleges that she was gang raped by other passengers while cruising aboard the Carnival Sensation cruise ship.
WFTV reports that one of their news reporters interviewed a man who was arrested for allegedly raping a a 15-year-old girl during a
When passengers fall victim to norovirus while cruising, cruise lines typically blame the passengers for bringing the virus aboard and sickening the ship and crew. But if this Canadian news report is correct, its looks like the table has been turned on one cruise line which allegedly sickened people ashore in the port of Halifax
Yesterday a federal judge in Miami rejected a motion filed by Carnival Corporation seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of young girl who was sexually assaulted on a Carnival cruise ship.
The case involved a nine year old girl who was raped on Carnival’s Destiny cruise ship. The case is a reminder
The Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act (CVSSA) statistical FBI compilation for the last quarter (April 1, 2012 – June 30, 2012) is out.
And if you are inclined to believe the FBI statistics, being on a cruise ship is the safest place on planet earth. According to the crimes disclosed by the FBI, over
People Magazine in the U.K. is publishing photographs of what it is describing as crew members snorting cocaine in their cabins. The photographs are part of an investigation into drug use aboard the Disney Magic cruise ship after a "whistleblower" reported widespread us of coke by crew members. People Magazine writes:
"Up on deck families
The Miami Herald reports that a Royal Caribbean crew member sexually assaulted a passenger during a New Year’s cruise according to the allegation in a lawsuit filed last week. The newspaper reports that the sex attack was partially captured on surveillance video.
The woman was attacked on January 1, 2012 while cruising aboard the Navigator
A newspaper in Mexico and cruise expert Professor Ross Klein report that a young woman from Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas cruise ship was apparently drugged and sexually assaulted by employees of Senor Frog’s in Cozumel, Mexico last Friday, August 10, 2012.
The article states that the woman (reportedly around 19-20 years of age)
A puke fest is underway on the Carnival Glory cruise ship, with passengers taking to the message boards at Cruise Critic to comment that passengers are suffering from diarrhea and other norovirus-like symptoms,
The message board states that Carnival prepared a letter to passengers this weekend that passengers on the prior cruise experienced norovirus sickness.
One of the things we talk about is disappearances at sea. With few exceptions, the stories of passengers and crew who find themselves in the water don’t end well. Here’s an exception.
Kim Thomsen and his fellow fishing mates found themselves in the dark waters off of western Australia 260 kilometers north of Perth after
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The Jamaica Gleaner reports today that an American cruise ship passenger is missing in Jamaica after disembarking from an unidentified cruise ship that apparently called on Ocho Rios.
The Gleaner states that the police are seeking the assistance of the public in locating an American who has been missing since Thursday.
The Ocho Rios police
I received a nice compliment this week when a top travel blogger, Chris Owen, picked Cruise Law News as one of "Three Unique Cruise Websites Worth A Look."
Chris is a popular travel expert who writes for Gadling and his own blog Chris Cruises – Inside Cruise Vacatioms."
Chris writes:
"There are
The Costa Concordia in January disaster set off a seemingly endless avalanche of stories on cable news this year about ship fires, sinkings and other cruise disasters, as well as a steady stream of articles and videos about sexual assaults during cruises, drunken brawling passengers, and the disappearance of women at sea.
I’m just one of
In one of the first articles published in the cruise industry’s new blog, entitled "Sailing with Respect," the cruise lines pitched themselves as leaders of the marine environment. CLIA CEO Christine Duffy proclaimed that:
"As an industry, we are extremely committed to protecting the waters and surrounding environments where we operate to preserve
A local news station in Houston, Texas reports that there are problems with the manner that crimes on cruise ships are reported and investigated by the FBI.
KRPC Channel 2 in Houston aired a program yesterday that reported on the rape of a 56 year old Texas woman on at the last night of a
This week I ran across a really interesting article by Karen Wormald who is an award-winning business writer and author, as well as a contributing editor to PC Solutions. Her work has appeared in many publications including, interesting enough, Cruise Travel.
Ms. Wormald had some very critical observations about the muster drills during a Carnival cruise
The big news coming from the cruise industry is that the CEO of the Cruise Line International Association, Christine Duffy, launched a new blog. One of the primary purposes of Ms. Duffy’s blog is to attack what CLIA is calling “sensationalist” and “misleading” news accounts of crimes on cruise ships.
Ms. Duffy recently sent
The Sun newspaper in the U.K. published a photo this weekend of disgraced Costa Captain Francesco Schettino aboard a power boat in the Mediterranean.
The Sun reports that Captain Schetino "wore swimming trunks as he took to the waves near his home in Sorrento, Italy."
A friend of his was at the helm for a
