Ten days ago, the Costa Fascinosa was hit by 90 knot winds after the cruise ship left Venice. The captain failed to give any warnings to the passengers and crew members before the storm struck. The cruise ship listed heavily and plates and glasses crashed to the decks and floors throughout the galleys and bars
Disappearance From the M/S Serenissima: Update on the Case of Denisa Markoska
News reports are saying that a body washed ashore from the the Aegean Sea with characteristics of missing crew member Denisa Markoska who disappeared from the M/S Serenissima under suspicious circumstances 24 days ago.
You can read articles from Macedonia here and here.
There is reportedly a similarity in the clothes with those worn
A Quantum Hazard: Why is a Smart Ship So Stinky?
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Kallis Video Production’s YouTube page shows a video of the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas in Bremerhaven on October 5, 2014.
The video was taken from a gyrocopter.
The Quantum is the latest ballyhooed giant cruise ship from Royal Caribbean. Two weeks ago it was trotted out from the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany
Propeller Woes Continue: HAL Cancels Third Consecutive Veendam Cruise
Holland America Line announced that it is cancelling the 7 night October 11th cruise of the Veendam from Quebec, Canada to Boston because of problems with one of the cruise ship’s propellers.
HAL has already cancelled the sailings on the Veendam for the September 28th and October 4th cruises to try and fix the
Fire on the Emerald Princess: What Information Should Passengers Be Entitled to Know?
I first heard of the fires (yes, plural) aboard the Princess Cruises’ Emerald Princess in a cruise review entitled Emerald Princess On Fire!!!
A couple on the cruise ship commented, with no other details, that on the first night (September 16th) "the staff were called to stations because of a fire in the engine room.
Ecstasy Tragedy: Clemson Student Knocked Off Radar Platform
There’s more to the story regarding how 20 year old Kendall Wernet, a student at Clemson, died aboard the Carnival Ecstasy than the cruise line disclosed in its carefully crafted PR statement on Monday.
Carnival claimed that Mr. Wernet climbed up onto the cruise ship’s forward mast and “subsequently fell and landed on the deck.”
No Grandi Navi? Norwegian Jade Photobombs George Clooney’s Wedding in Venice
Last night, like most nights, I was watching Erin Burnett’s show Outfront on CNN.
At the end of the program, Jeanne Moos did a short special on George Clooney’s wedding in Venice earlier that day. He had gone to the wedding in a highly published boat procession down the beautiful canals of Venice.
Venice, of
Agony on the Ecstasy: What Causes People to be Cruel in Times of Tragedy?
Yesterday was the worst day in the lives of a family from North Carolina. A 20 year old fell twenty to thirty feet from a mast on the Carnival Ecstasy at the port of Miami. The young man was later pronounced dead at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami.
What started as a tropical dream
Carnival Passenger Falls to His Death on the Ecstasy
A twenty year old cruise passenger from North Carolina fell from a mast on the Carnival Ecstasy this morning, according to several local television stations.
Channel 10 (video credit) says the passenger fell as the cruise ship was underway returning to the Port of Miami. Channel 6 says that the ship was docked as Terminal
“Seasick Princess” Redux: Princess Cancels Another Cruise on the Sea Princess
The newspapers in Australia are blasting Princess Cruises for canceling another cruise on the Sea Princess, again at the last minute, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
We previously reported on the cancellation of the September 14th sailing because the cruise ship went into dry dock to try and perform repairs to the ship engines
P&O Ferry Erupts in Flames
A P&O ferry erupted in flames as it sailed from Dover, England to Calais, France this morning.
A number of news sources report that a fire broke out in the engine room of the Pride of Canterbury as it was approaching port in France.
337 passengers and 119 crew members were aboard the ferry at
Coast Guard Medevacs Injured Passenger from Grandeur of the Seas
The U.S. Coast Guard was summonsed to a Royal Caribbean cruise ship Friday night after a 58 year old woman was severely injured in a fall.
News accounts say that the Coast Guard responded to the Grandeur of the Seas.
The Coast Guard launched a rescue boat from a station in southern Maryland on
False Man Overboard Alarm on the Royal Princess
A passenger commented on Cruise Critic this morning that the Master of the Royal Princess cruise ship announced that a person had been reported overboard and the ship was going to take a head count of the passengers and crew.
The cruise ship performed a partial Williamson maneuver (as shown on AIS systems) and
What Happened on this Costa Cruise Ship?
A reader of Cruise Law News sent me a link to this Costa crew member’s Facebook page which contains video and photographs of hundreds of broken dishes in the ship’s galley.
It appears that the cruise ship experienced some type of incident affecting the ship’s navigational system; I’m not sure of the details.
You can
Coast Guard Medevacs Passenger from Carnival Miracle Off Hawaiian coast (2014)
Yesterday we mentioned that the U.S. Coast Guard flew 400 miles out to sea from Honolulu to drop blood supplies to the Carnival Miracle to help the ship medical team treat a passenger with internal bleeding.
But the passenger’s medical condition continued to worsen, and the Coast Guard returned to the Carnival cruise ship with a
Need Blood in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean? Call the U.S. Coast Guard!
The Coast Guard is back in the news with emergency medical supplies delivered to a cruise ship passenger in distress.
Yesterday a C-130 Coast Guard aircrew flew over 400 miles to drop units of blood to a Carnival cruise ship northeast of a island (Oahu) in Hawaii.
The Carnival Miracle contacted the Coast Guard
Will the Cruise-Dependent Caribbean Islands Embrace Marijuana Tourism?
There’s an excellent article in Travel Pulse today entitled Caribbean Tourism Officials Talk Marijuana Tourism. Written by Brian Major, the article takes a look at how the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) may capitalize on marijuana tourism.
The article cites the growing legalization of pot here in U.S., and the fact that several Caribbean islands, like
Micky Arison Cashes In On Carnival Stock, Again
Carnival Chairman and major stockholder Micky Arison sold 212,474 shares of Carnival stock on Friday, September 19th at an average price of $40.22 for a total of $8,545,704.28, according to the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Yes, this is a serious amount of money. But its peanuts for this cruise tycoon.
By last June, Arison