A 67-year-old Tasmanian woman drowned while snorkeling the Tangalooma Wrecks at Moreton Island, Australia on Friday, April 17. The woman, who has not been publicly identified, was a passenger aboard the Carnival Splendor, which offers snorkeling excursions to the Tangalooma Wrecks.
A witness told Courier Mail, “The current at the wrecks
An elderly passenger went overboard from the Carnival Splendor while the ship was off the coast of Brisbane, Australia in the early hours of April 18, 2026. The subsequent search and rescue operation led by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) was unsuccessful and the man is presumably dead.
An elderly Melbourne man died after going overboard from the Disney Wonder at 4:30 a.m. on November 22nd.
The incident took place in the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand, during the ship’s five-night voyage starting in Melbourne.
The ship changed course at 4:35 a.m.
An 80-year-old woman (grandmother Suzanne Rees) was found dead on October 26 after being abandoned on a cruise hiking excursion on Lizard Island, Australia. The woman was on the second day of a 60-day Coral Expeditions cruise.
The ship, the Coral Adventurer, did not notify authorities that the woman was missing until hours after
A passenger has reportedly gone overboard from the Pacific Adventure cruise ship as it approached Sydney, Australia. Nearby vessels and a police helicopter are searching the waters near Sydney as the search for the missing cruise guest continues.
Newspapers in Australia report that P&O’s Pacific
Virgin Voyages’ Resilient Lady has created quite a stir over the last several months when it called on Hobart, Tasmania during its regular three-six day cruises from Melbourne and Sydney. The cruise ship has been extensively photographed belching out smoke which fills the port, sparking a heated debate whether the public is seeing just harmless
A cruise ship employee, who describes himself as a music director of Royal Caribbean, was jailed in Australia for obtaining and accessing child abuse photographs and videos. Forty-four year-old Dana Moran reportedly came to the attention of Australian Border Force officers earlier this year when he flew into Brisbane International Airport. Following a baggage search
An Australian passenger has gone overboard from the Quantum of the Seas Wednesday night as the Royal Caribbean ship was sailing from Australia to Hawaii.
We first reported on the situation after reading about it in the popular cruise blog, Cruise Hive, yesterday afternoon.
The
The Celebrity Eclipse docked in Sydney, Australia with, depending upon which news outlet you read, anywhere from 100 to over 1,500 people infected with COVID-19.
The Daily Mail reports that “far more than 1,500 people” on the cruise ship operated by Celebrity Cruises were positive for COVID-19.
The Australian newspaper reports that around 300 people
A number of news outlets in Australia are reporting that the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship is experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak. The country of Indonesia took the extraordinary step of blocking the Cunard ship from calling at port in Bali.
Neither the cruise operator (Cunard) nor ship owner (Carnival Corporation) would disclose the number of 
infected
Princess Cruises again? 200 #COVID19 positive on @PrincessCruises Grand Princess #cruise ship allowed to come ashore in Melbourne Australia after 13 day round-trip to New Zealand. "Some stuck in tiny cabins for up to 8 days before allowed to disembark," https://t.co/vDpz3VSlUJ
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) November 17, 2022
7News Australia reports on its Facebook page that “200 COVID positive
Princess Cruises’ Majestic Princess returned to Sydney this morning after a twelve-day cruise which left port on October 31st. There reportedly are now over eight hundred (800) active COVID-19 cases on this ship. This is the biggest single outbreak since the Ruby Princess cruise ship arrived in Sydney in March 2020 with 900 infected passengers.
Unlike the United States, which no longer makes the number of people infected with COVID-19 on cruise ships publicly available (the CDC stopped such public disclose in July of this year), the state of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia requires cruise ships which arrive in its waters with guests and crew members infected with
The president of Carnival Australia and P&O Cruises Australia, Marguerite Fitzgerald, told ABC Business yesterday that there had been an increase in COVID-19 infections on the Coral Princess once the cruise ship reached Fremantle, Australia but the number allegedly remained “limited” and “managed well.” She continued to refuse to release an exact number of infected
Cruise ships are returning to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti amidst reports that four cruise ships (two operated by Princess Cruises and two by Royal Caribbean) are rife with COVID-19. Three of the ships have one hundred or more COVID-19 infected guests on each ship. Royal Caribbean has one ship heading to Australia with reports
Today the Government of Australia extended the ban against cruise travel to a minimum of three months:
Extending the human biosecurity emergency period by three months @GregHuntMP #auspol pic.twitter.com/K8KujktTE7
— Political Alert (@political_alert) December 8, 2020
Newspapers across Australia report that Australians are restricted from overseas travel or cruise ship holidays for at least three more months as the government extends the biosecurity ban imposed at the start of the pandemic.
The ban
A number of crew members aboard the Ruby Princess have requested assistance as the cruise ship remains drifting off the coast of Australia for over a week.
The crew members, who have requested to remain anonymous, have stated that several of the most seriously ill seaman have been transported from the ship. The crew is
Today we received the following information from several crew members on the Voyager of the Seas which is sailing an Australia itinerary after departing from Sydney. The future scheduled ports include Mystery Island and Vila in Vanuatu as well as several ports of call in New Caledonia – Mare, Lifou, and Noumea:
“The Voyager of
