A fire reportedly broke out in the engine room of the Aurora this morning, causing the P&O cruise ship to lose its electricity and its propulsion.
The fire was extinguished after approximately an hour, following which emergency generators were eventually started.
At the time of the fire, the Aurora was in the mid-Atlantic sailing for the
We regularly report on medevacs of passengers and crew members from cruise ships.
The majority of the medevacs occur near U.S. ports courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard. But there are medevacs which occur outside of the United States, including those performed by the Portuguese Air Force.
The latest rescue involved the P&O Aurora, on
Multiple news sources are reporting that a passenger went overboard from a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday. Little information is being released except that the passenger is described as a "British woman" and is apparently in her seventies.
The incident occurred on the Aurora cruise ship as it sailed from the Oporto, Portugal
Newspapers in Australia are reporting that a British cruise passenger aboard the P & O Aurora cruise ship was arrested for trying to smuggle 30 kilos of cocaine into Australia.
The British citizen is 59 years old and was busted by Australian customs officers last Friday at the Overseas Passenger Terminal in Sydney. The customs
The San Francisco Weekly Blog reported today that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) busted three cruise ship passengers in San Francisco with nearly 13 kilos of cocaine last month.
The CBP and local law-enforcement officials found two separate discoveries of a large amount of cocaine on a cruise ship at Pier 35 on January 25th after the
The international press is reporting that Gahadhar Pradhan, a crew member (waiter) from P&O’s Aurora cruise ship, was pistol-whipped over the head and shot during a mugging while ashore in Philipsburg, on the Caribbean island of St Maarten.
We first learned of the incident via 
the cruise blogs by Captain Greybeard in the U.K.
The crew member was shot in
The U.K.’s Mail Online reports that cruise passengers on the P&O Cruises cruise ship Artemis in the Mediterranean are "in revolt" after engine problems caused them to miss out on several ports (Valencia, Naples and Gibraltar) during the 20 day cruise.
The newspaper writes that "angry holidaymakers have now set up a committee to represent the 1,200 passengers