Each year 14,000,000 people (yes 14 million) will go on a cruise. There are literally hundreds of passengers, as well as crewmembers, who will suffer a serious back injury or break their ankle, leg or hip after slipping and falling while cruising. Once back home after the cruise, they find it difficult to think of hiring a lawyer who they have never met in order
Another Russian River Cruise Ship Disaster
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Multiple news sources are reporting that a fire broke out aboard a Moscow based river cruise ship, the Sergey Abramov, and engulfed the vessel.
Various news reports indicate that several passengers were burned and one crewmember is either missing or reported dead. Other news accounts reports indicate no deaths.
The Sergei Abramov is a three-deck river vessel which apparently caught
Mickey Mouse Games: Is Disney Cruise Line Engaged In A Cover-Up On The Disney Wonder?
When I think of Disney Cruise Lines these days, the popular saying "the cover up is always worse that the crime" comes to mind.
I’m sure that I am not the only one who thinks that. Disney Cruise Lines’s conduct over the last nine months after the unexplained disappearance of Disney youth counselor, Rebecca Coriam, has a number of
Did NCL Hide Evidence of Cancerous Drinking Water From Passengers?
The Sunday Times of London published a disturbing story today regarding paint used on cruise ships and other vessels which could leach into the ship’s water tanks. The newspaper reports that the potable water supplies may have been contaminated and posed a cancer risk to thousands of cruise passengers.
The paint could leach the toxin acrylonitrile, described as a tumor-causing probable
Life In Jail For Cruise Passenger Who Threw Wife Overboard
Yesterday, a jury convicted a Chinese passenger of murder after finding that he threw his wife off a cruise ship.
The Standard newspaper in Hong Kong reports that Wang Weile, age 49, shook his head in disbelief when the seven member jury returned its guilty verdict. The judge then sentenced him to life imprisonment.
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As we reported in our article about this bizarre crime earlier
Charleston’s Cruise Billboard Battle
An unusual debate continues over the use of Charleston, South Carolina as a cruise port and the scale of the cruise industry’s presence in this quaint old southern town. There is a lot to argue about – air emissions, waste discharge, traffic, noise and passenger congestion as well as the visual pollution of this beautiful city.
The debate
Royal Caribbean to Sell Booze to Teenagers
An online news sources today published an article entitled "Drinks for Teens on Royal," which states that Royal Caribbean has lowered the drinking age for passengers onboard sailings operated outside of North America.
The article states that "while the minimum age of consumption for sailings in North America remains at 21, the limit for
Sea Burial or Cruise Murder?
What do you do if you accidentally knock your wife unconscious when she tries to commit suicide on a cruise? Do you throw her overboard after suddenly remembering that she wanted to be buried at sea?
Yes, pretty far fetched. But that is exactly the defense offered in a criminal trial against a Chinese cruise passenger who is
Passenger Goes Overboard From NCL’s Norwegian Sun in Falmouth Jamaica
Cruise expert Professor Ross Klein reports that a NCL passenger went overboard from Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Sun shortly after the cruise ship pulled out of the Falmouth shipping pier in Jamaica late Wednesday.
Professor Klein has the most complete list of passenger overboards over the course of the last ten years.
Professor Klein’s website refers to an
Tragedy on HAL’s Half Moon Cay: A Mother’s Perspective
One of the purposes of this blog is to educate the public of dangers of cruising and the legal hurdles passengers face when things go wrong during a cruise.
One of the first issues I felt compelled to write about when I started this blog over two years ago was the Death On The High Seas Act ("DOHSA"). DOSHA
Over 1200 Passengers Rescued from Burning Ferry in the Red Sea, One Dead & Many Injured
A fire broke out yesterday aboard an Egyptian bound ferry, the Pella, in the Gulf of Aqaba, which is the northeastern tip of the Red Sea.
There were approximately 1240 passengers aboard the cruise ferry at the time of the fire. The ferry was ten miles off of the coast of Jordan. A number of military
High Times on the High Seas: Judge Sentences Cruise Ship Drug Dealer to Jail
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A judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands sentenced a passenger caught dealing drugs on Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas to twenty-one months in jail.
In February of this year, Steven Barry Krumholz, age 51, of West Hollywood, was arrested on board the Allure of the Seas during the "world’s largest gay cruise."
Mr. Krumholz operated
Accused Royal Caribbean Cruises Rapist Sues Bahamas for Spending Four Nights in Jail After Acquital
One of the categories I have for my Cruise Law News blog is "weird cruise news."
Why such a category?
For stories just like this:
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The Nassau Guardian published an article today about a Royal Caribbean crewmember, employed as a stateroom attendant, who was accused of raping a young woman on Royal Caribbean’s Sovereign of the Seas cruise
Disappearance of Disney Cruise Line Youth Counselor Rebecca Coriam Reveals Indifference of Foreign Flag State
Today the case of missing Disney Cruise Line youth counselor Rebecca Coriam is again in the news as a MP from her hometown of Cheshire England spoke before the House of Commons.
You will recall that last March, Ms. Coriam "disappeared" from the Disney Wonder as the cruise ship was sailing a Los Angeles –
Coast Guard to Rescue Three Passengers from HAL Cruise Ship Oosterdam
At this moment the U.S. Coast Guard is in the process of medevacing three elderly passengers from a cruise ship 100 miles east of from Hilo, Hawaii.
The Republic reports that an 86 year old man appears to having a heart attack, an 82 year old man has symptoms of internal bleeding, and a 76 year old woman is suffering from
Celebrity Century Cruise Ship Rescues Injured Sailor in Pacific
Earlier this month, crewmembers aboard the Celebrity Century cruise ship recorded interesting video of the rescue of an injured skipper in the Pacific as the cruise ship sailed to Hawaii.
The incident involved the Quantum Leap, a 49 foot sailing yacht which was being delivered from San Diego to Honolulu by captain Phillip Johnson, together with
Norwegian Gem Rescues Disabled Sailboat Northeast of Bermuda
According to WAVY.com, on October 29, 2011, the Norwegian Gem cruise ship responded to a distress signal initiated by a disabled sailboat which had lost power and was taking on water. The sailboat was 256 miles northeast of Bermuda, and it would have taken days for a Coast Guard cutter to respond from the U.S.
The Coast Guard
Drugs on the Love Boat – Princess Cruises Crewmember Busted with $700,000 of Cocaine
The Crown Court in Southampton, England imposed an eight year jail sentence against a Princess Cruises bar supervisor who attempted to smuggle 1.29 kilos of cocaine with a 100 per cent purity worth £429,000, into the U.K.
At the current U.K. – U.S exchange rate, this is about $700,000 worth of coke.
The Daily Echo newspaper in England reports that Princess Cruise crewmember