An Italian news station reports that a Costa crew member allegedly sexually molested a 15 yer old girl aboard the Costa Diadema.
The Costa crew member is described as a 50 year-old Honduran man employed on the cruise ship as a cleaner. Italian police arrested him and criminally charged him with sexually assaulted the
Royal Caribbean’s Splendour of the Seas caught on fire this morning as the cruise ship was sailing in the Mediterranean near the Greek islands.
“There’s thick acrid smoke all over the cabins," reported an Irish passenger according to UTV in London.
“We can constantly smell smoke. Smoke here. Smoke everywhere. Everywhere on the ship we can
Today the Nassau Tribune reports that a garbage truck ran over and dragged a passenger who was ashore from the Carnival Sensation. The Canadian was traveling with his family. He received "serious injuries to his lower extremities and was pronounced dead on the scene.”
The truck driver told police that his brakes failed as he
The Associated Press reports that a cruise ship passenger from New Mexico died after falling from a zip line in Puerto Rico.
Police said the 56 year old passenger fell approximately 20 feet from the zip line at the Hacienda Campo Rico outside of San Juan. "She could not move her legs and complained of chest
The United States Coast Guard medevaced a female passenger last night after she sustained a heart attack on the Grand Princess cruise ship.
The woman was described as 57 years old. At the time of the medevac, the Princess Cruises’ ship was approximately 80 miles southwest of Monterey, California.
The Coast Guard flight surgeon recommended
Passengers aboard NCL’s Norwegian Star are telling me that the ship’s azipod system has failed. The cruise ship is skipping Miami today and is heading for Tampa one day early. One passenger said that the next cruise is reportedly canceled. (The cancellation of the next cruise is not confirmed information. Please double check
The Times of India reports that Star Cruises has agreed to show the CCTV video of the circumstances when SuperStar Gemini cruise passenger Raj Kumar Agarwal went overboard from the SuperStar Gemini last week.
As we previously reported, Mr. Agarwal disappeared from the cruise ship on the late hours of October 6th / early
Two nights ago, the Thomson Dream stopped when the crew noticed an abandoned life raft. The cruise ship was sailing from Sardinia towards Naples.
The ship stopped for around 40 mins. The crew pulled the life raft to the shell doors and then went aboard to inspect it. The life raft was brand new and undamaged.
Viking Ocean Cruises CEO Torstein Hagen has been indicted in Norway on corruption charges arising out of the christening of the Viking Star cruise ship.
As we previously reported last week, the Godmother for the new cruise ship, Trude Drevland, the mayor of Bergen City in Norway, has been under police investigation due to allegations
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The Carnival Spirit has developed a problem with its propulsion system, forcing it to reduce its cruising speed. As a result, the Spirit will be delayed arriving in Sydney on Wednesday, and will arrive at approximately 3:00 PM.
According to Carnival, the cruise ship obviously needs to disembark its current passengers.So check-in for the next
In the last couple of weeks I’ve posted photographs of the crew mess on a number of cruise ships. Some of the photos are gross, Some of the photos don’t seem too bad. One crew member said the food on the Queen Victoria was great.
Today a crew member on the Queen Elizabeth
Newspapers in India are reporting that a thirty year old male Indian passenger disappeared in the Strait of Malacca from the SuperStar Gemini operated by Star Cruises.
Rajkumar Agarwal, from Calcutta, India, was cruising with his extended family who boarded the SuperStar Gemini on October 4th. He is the youngest of three brothers and was
Last night a reader of this blog sent me an AIS screen shot of the P&O Ventura sailing in circles south of the Isle of Wight in an apparent attempt to search for an overboard passenger.
This morning the British press is reporting that a passenger went overboard fron the Ventura around 04:30 BST as it
There are lots of things that can go wrong during a shore excursion. Some are foreseeable, like injuries on a zip-line or being robbed during a stop-over on a Caribbean island. But some things are not.
The Greek Reporter covers the bewildering story of a German tourist, a 67 year old woman, who was killed
Norwegian Cruise Line announced that Miami remix rap artist "Pitbull" (Armando Christian Pérez) will become the Godfather of the company’s newest cruise ship next month at the Port of Miami.
NCL cruise executives CEO Frank Del Rio and President Andy Stuart will attend the naming ceremony of the Norwegian Escape on November 9th.
Pitbull will perform
A number of people contacted me after I wrote about the editors at Cruise Critic picking the Viking Star (Viking’s first ocean-going cruise ship) as the "Best New Cruise Ship" for 2015.
Cruise passengers and crew members brought to my attention that there have been problems with the Viking Star from day one. They
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a NCL cruise ship approximately 165 miles east of Virginia Beach today.
The Coast Guard was called for assistance after a 30-year-old woman complained of abdominal pain.
The Coast Guard helicopter crew responded to the Norwegian Breakaway and flew the woman to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
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The other day I posted an article entitled Grub on the High Seas. I also posted photographs on Facebook of the food served in the crew mess, primarily on MSC, Costa and Cunard cruise ships.
A number of crew members sent me photos of some nasty looking stuff (photo left from Cunard). One cruise
