Due to cuts by the Trump Administration, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now lacking the staff and resources to continue cruise ship health inspections under the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP).
“Restructuring plans” by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK, Jr.) wiped out
Following President Trump’s tariff announcement yesterday (April 3) and the market downturn, cruise stocks have dropped across the board. Cruise Industry News reports today that the major cruise line traded “considerably down at market close compared to other major companies and the S&P 500 index.”
“While the S&P 500 average ended the day at
Passengers on Quark Expeditions’ Ocean Explorer ship heading back from Antarctica experienced a harrowing journey through the turbulent Drake Passage, where the expedition cruise ship hit waves as high as 30 to 40 feet. Passengers described the 48 hour experience as being trapped on a “never-ending roller coaster at sea.”
One passenger, travel blogger Lesley
Ambassador Cruise Line, a UK-based company that operates three cruise ships (Ambience, Ambition and Renaissance) from regional ports across the UK, revealed yesterday in a press release that it will install what it calls an “advanced man overboard (MOB) detection system,” called ZOE, aboard the Ambition cruise ship. The ZOE system is designed
The average CEO of a company included in the S&P 500 makes 268 times more than their median employee, a figure that outrages many. Cruise line CEOs blow this number out of the water.
The top cruise line CEOs are paid a minimum of several hundred to well more than 1,000 times more than a
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there have been recent norovirus outbreaks on both Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 and Seabourn Cruise Line’s the Seabourn Encore which have sickened 226 passengers and crew members.
Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 had approximately 2,538 guests of which 183 passengers and 14 crew members were
A 73-year old female passenger who was travelling on the Holland America Line (HAL) ship, the Nieuw Amsterdam, died last week in a jet ski accident in the Bahamas over the weekend.
The woman smashed into a rock when she lost control, Bahamian officials said. According to the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF)
Two adult cruise passengers were arrested last Friday at PortMiami on charges of sexually victimizing a 14 year-old boy on the Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas, according to numerous local news stations.
According to arrest reports from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office , cruise passengers Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal (left photo), age 37
German and Colombian media report that last Friday an excursion boat from the Carnival Corporation-owned AIDAbella cruise ship, with 38 tourists aboard, capsized off the coast of Colombia near the Barú Peninsula, Cartagena, Colombia, according to the popular Crew Center site.
The accident apparently was caused by strong winds and high waves, which overwhelmed
Imagine going on a luxury cruise on Cunard’s Queen Anne which holds more than 3,350 passengers and fares for its first-ever world voyage begin at $16,379 per person, only to be ordered to hide on the ship for two days when passing through the Sulu and Celebes seas? Would you knowingly sign up for this?
On March 7th, a norovirus outbreak occurred on Holland America Line’s (HAL) Rotterdam bringing the total number of gastrointestinal (GI) outbreaks on cruise ships this year to ten. A total of eighty-nine (89) passengers and four (4) crew members were reported ill during the voyage on the Rotterdam.
The cruise crime data, released earlier this week as part of the quarterly reporting by the Department of Transportation (DOT), again shows that Carnival Cruise Line clearly has the most sexual assaults and rapes as well as the most physical assault with serious personal injuries, both in total numbers and on a per capita basis.
A resident of Polk City, Florida was arrested at the Port of Tampa on charges of possessing and transporting child pornography on the Margaritaville at Sea’s Islander, according to a local news station in Tampa.
James Oxley, age 52, boarded the Islander cruise ship, operated by Margaritaville at Sea, on December 17, 2025 for
There is a reason why Carnival cruise ships have the highest per capita rate of sexual assaults on the high seas, as this case demonstrates.
Last week, after a two-week trial, a federal jury found Jalen Thomas Kelley, age 22, guilty of aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, and assault of a minor aboard the Carnival
A seventy-two year old man was reported missing on Monday morning from the Ruby Princess when it returned to port in San Francisco following a five day cruise to Mexico, according to numerous national and local news stations.
It
The Miami-Dade Police Department arrested a passenger who disembarked from an unidentified cruise ship at PortMiami last weekend on charges of “purchasing child sexual abuse material online.”
Miami-Dade Police arrested Nicholas Gardener, age 24, of Brampton, Ontario who was initially held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center
A sixty-six (66) year-old passenger was reported overboard from the Allure of the Seas cruise ship north of Nassau, Bahamas last night.
Around 9:40 p.m. last night, passengers reported hearing an “Oscar-Oscar-Oscar” announcement. A rescue craft was reportedly deployed to search for the missing woman. The Allure used
The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 170 people on the Radiance of the Seas were sickened with diarrhea and abdominal cramps among other gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. The CDC reports that during the last cruise (September 20th– September 27th), 167 out
