Today is January 1st. The first day of 2012! This year over 14,000,000 people will sail on cruise ships. Cruising continues to be one of the fasting growing travel industries, with a wide variety of cruise ships and destinations. It is not a perfect industry and I consider myself one of its harshest critics. But If you are
Man Overboard From Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas Cruise Ship?
This evening we received inquiries for information whether there was a "man overboard" from Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas cruise ship.
The last time we received such direct inquiries was last Sunday when we received emails asking us whether a crew member went overboard from the Celebrity Summit cruise ship. We did not have
Cruise Law News: A Look Back at 2011
As this year comes to a close, it’s time to look back at some of events of 2011.
Last year started out with a bang. Our firm represented a seriously injured crewmember in a case against Royal Caribbean. Our client sustained a debilitating back injury, underwent an unsuccessful surgery, and needed a second surgery which
Coast Guard Medevacs 73 Year Old Passenger From Carnival Triumph Cruise Ship
A 73 tear old passenger from the Carnival Triumph received a ride of a lifetime when an U.S. Coast Guard helicopter plucked him from the deck of the cruise ship and flew him to Galveston for emergency medical treatment.
The Carnival cruise ship was around 120 miles off the coast of Galveston when the Coast Guard performed
Celebrity Crewmember Missing From Summit Cruise Ship
On Sunday we received emails inquiring about a Celebrity crewmember who went overboard from the Summit cruise ship. The Summit was sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it is currently based, to Barbados when the cruise employee disappeared. At the time we had no information.
Today the U.S. Coast Guard issued a statement that the missing crewmember is a Filipino
Christmas Dreams in Miami of Cuban Rafters Crushed By Cruise Ship “Rescues”
NBC Miami reports today that twelve Cuban migrants on a raft trying to sail to the U.S. were intercepted after Royal Caribbean alerted the U.S. Coast Guard.
Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas cruise ship spotted the Cubans today and radioed the location of the raft to the Coast Guard in Miami.
The NBC affiliate reports
Dirty Dishes & Fruit Flies Flourish on Royal Caribbean’s Oldest Cruise Ship
In a story widely reported in the national media, the Centers for Disease Control failed Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas after conducting a surprise vessel sanitation inspection last month.
On November 18, 2011, CDC inspectors boarded the Monarch of the Seas, which is the cruise line’s oldest vessel, and found numerous public health risks and violations if the
Coast Guard Medevacs Sick Passenger from Queen Mary 2 Cruise Ship
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an ill passenger from the Queen May 2 cruise ship off of the coast of North Carolina.
The video below shows the the skilled crew of a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter lifting a 64 year old woman from the deck of the QM2 cruise ship. The passenger was suffering from severe abdominal
FlowRider Accidents: Royal Caribbean Liability Waivers Are Unenforceable!
A year and a half ago, I wrote about the danger of serious injury and death created by the “FlowRider” attraction on Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship. The article is entitled Wipeout! Liability of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line for FlowRider Accidents.
In the article, I discussed that the cruise line forces the passengers to sign
Crime Scene on Splendor Cruise Ship? Carnival Won’t Say
Professor Ross Klein’s website CruiseJunkie contains disturbing comments from a cruise passenger aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship who reports that on December 15th during a sailing to the Mexican Riviera a gruesome physical altercation took place in cabin 1306.
Here are the comments:
"Wild, out-of-control alcohol-fueled domestic fight – starts at 9PM, escalates to most certainly a felony assault (or worse)
Carnival Crewmember Travel Coordinator Arrested For Fraud and Grand Theft
A fifty-one year old employee of Carnival Cruise Lines has been arrested for organized fraud and theft.
Miami resident Serafin Sanchez was arrested and booked on two criminal counts, described as organized theft of more than $50,000 and first degree fraud in excess of $100,000.
According to the arrest warrant, Mr. Sanchez is a shore-side employee of Carnival
Yahoo Spoofed: Caribbean Ski Season Opens Atop Innovative Cruise Ship
Today I was reading Yahoo News when I saw a weird story featured on the front page about a cruise ship named "iglu cruise ship" in the Caribbean where you can snow ski on the top deck. I clicked on it the link which took me to the article below.
Yes, there is an iglucruise website; it is
Cruise Ship Rape: A No Man’s Land On The High Seas?
A newspaper in South Africa published a disturbing story today about the defense raised by the lawyers for a passenger who is accused of raping a woman during a cruise aboard the MSC Sinfonia cruise ship.
The case involves South African national Anika Marks who sailed on the MSC Cruises ship in November 2009. Ms. Marks was on what
CruiseLog’s Article on Cruise Ship Sickness Misses the Boat
The popular cruise blog written by Gene Sloan for the USA Today newspaper published an article yesterday entitled "Outbreaks of Illness on Cruise Ships at Multiyear Low."
CruiseLog cites statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ("CDC") of 11 outbreaks of illnesses so far in 2011, down from 14 in 2010 and 15 in 2009. It concludes that this reflects
Bomb Scare Forces Evacuation of Cruise Terminal at Port of Miami
CBS Channel 4 reported today that a check of a suspicious package at the Port of Miami resulted in the evacuation of a cruise ship terminal. The evacuation was ordered after a police dog alerted to the package.
Miami police ordered the evacuation of Terminal C, which was in use Friday by NCL’s Norwegian Sky cruise ship. CBS reported
Rescued Passenger Kisses and Waves Goodbye to Cruise Ship
One of the stories I never tire of reporting is when a Coast Guard helicopter plucks a sick cruise passenger from the deck of a cruise ship and takes the passenger ashore for emergency medical treatment.
The skill of the U.S. Coast Guard in rescuing people from cruise ships is rather remarkable. The Coast Guard can fly 200 miles out to sea
Your Tax Dollars At Sea – Who Pays When Things Go Wrong on Cruises?
This week the United States Coast Guard rescued two cruise passengers – one ill young man from the NCL Gem cruise ship sailing off the coast of North Carolina and a second young woman from the Explorer cruise ship who was suffering from an appendicitis attack near Key West Florida.
When we report on these type of rescues
Coast Guard Medevacs Sick Royal Caribbean Cruise Passenger
WSVN – TV reports that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a cruise passenger after she experienced symptoms of appendicitis.
The incident occurred on December 12, 2011 on the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas cruise ship about 130 miles southwest of Key West. A Coast Guard helicopter hoisted the 21 year old cruise passenger and