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There are reports that the Carnival Liberty cruise ship sustained an engine room fire today.
The fire took place when the cruise ship was docked in St. Thomas USVI. Cruise passengers were reportedly evacuated ashore, some wearing life vests.
John Heald, the popular blogging cruise director for Carnival, posted this statement in his Facebook page:
There is a report of a "man overboard" this afternoon from the Carnival Glory cruise ship.
A reader from Honduras listening to channel 16 heard the report and said that the Honduran Navy and locals were searching for a person overboard at certain coordinates in Honduran waters.
A person also notified me on my Facebook
WFTV reports that a crew member on a Carnival cruise ship allegedly sexually assaulted a teenage boy last Friday.
The news station says that Carnival announced the incident, although it is less than clear when or how the cruise line made the statement.
The incident allegedly occurred on board the Carnival Valor, which is
the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an ill cruise ship passenger from the Carnival Fascination 40 miles east of the Sebastian Inlet in Florida on Sunday, according to Defense Imagery and Video Distribution Services.
The Coast Guard dispatched an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter which hoisted the 55-year-old passenger from the cruise ship and transported him to Holmes
Defense Imagery and Video Distribution Services reports that yesterday the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an ill cruise passenger from the Carnival Miracle about 300 miles south of Point Loma, California.
Two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters crews dispatched from San Diego.
The 35 year old woman was suffering from abdominal problems. She was lifted into one of the
A reporter for the Marketplace interviewed me yesterday regarding the state of the cruise industry.
I explained that compared to a year or two ago, the general perception of cruise lines is up. More than 23,000,000 passengers will cruise this year. Bigger and bigger cruise ships are being constructed. Travel agents seem more energized than
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Defense Imagery and Video Systems has reported that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 79 year-old passenger from the Carnival Breeze yesterday.
The cruise ship was approximately 90 miles northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico when the passenger needed emergency medical treatment.
The Coast Guard helicopter hoisted the patient and a cruise ship nurse and transported
A 41 year old man returning on a cruise was arrested on child pornography charges last Thursday after his cruise ended and the ship returned to Charleston, South Carolina, according to a report in the Post and Courier newspaper.
The newspaper reports that Eric Jason Blankenship of West Virginia was charged with one count
I didn’t trust Carnival for a second that it really wanted to build a sustainable business relationship with the Dominican Republic through its "voluntourism" brand, "fathom" (not capitalized). I expressed my doubts here.
Hiring pseudo-sustainability expert and faux-celebrity Tara Russell to market the brand seemed as un-authentic as the "workers" who posed in the new
The United States Coast Guard is reporting that it last night it medevaced a 77 year old female cruise ship passenger suffering from a stroke approximately 200 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina.
The ill woman was on the Carnival Pride.
The Coast Guard air crew arrived on the scene at at sea on scene
An Australian newspaper published a mini-documentary about cruise ship dangers in Australia today.
SBS’ "The Feed" published Murky Waters: The Dark Side of the Cruise Industry, written and produced by Hannah Sinclair.
The video takes a look at a part of cruising that many Australians may be disturbed to learn – sexual assaults, drugs, excessive
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Carnival Corporation announced its second quarter profits today.
Its revenues to date for 2015 (June 30th) were $7,180,000,000 (billion), consisting of passenger fares (tickets) of $5,425,000,000 and onboard purchases (booze, spa, specialty meals, casino) of $1,755,000,000. It’s net income was $271,000,000.
And Carnival paid taxes of? Nothing.
You have heard me say this before. By
Last week Carnival announced its new brand "fathom" as the first "first voluntourism cruise line." It said that the new cruise line will focus on the "environment" and "sustainability," which seem like ridiculous propositions to me given Carnival’s deplorable record of polluting the air and water. Plus the new brand is going to operate the
The U.S. Coast Guard is reporting that it medevaced a sick passenger from a Carnival cruise ship on Monday. The cruise ship was approximately 140 miles east of Cape Charles, Virginia at the time.
The Carnival Splendor notified the Coast Guard at approximately 5 p.m., requesting a medevac for a 73-year-old passenger experiencing health complications.
An
Yesterday the United States Coast Guard rescued a 71 year old man from the Carnival Sensation.
A MH-65 Dolphin Coast Guard helicopter from responded to a call from the Carnival Sensation and medevaced the passenger while the cruise ship was approximately 22 miles east of Palm Beach.
The Coast Guard flight crew lifted the
Multiple crew members are confirming that a young woman employed in the Carnival entertainment department was found dead on the Carnival Sensation.
The cruise ship was last in Nassau, Bahamas. Bahamian news sources reported that "on Monday 1st June 2015 shortly after 6:00am, police received information that the lifeless body of a female crew
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A number of news sources report that SeaWorld’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), James Heaney, will be joining Carnival Cruise Line as CFO next month. Mr. Heaney worked at SeaWorld since 2011.
As the movie Blackfish reveals, SeaWorld profits by forcing captive orcas, which swim a hundred miles a day in the wild, to entertain tourists. The
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a sick cruise passenger from a Carnival cruise ship today approximately 70 miles south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
The Carnival Pride request a medevac for an ill 47-year-old passenger. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Elizabeth City, North Carolina arrived at approximately 4:40 p.m.
The helicopter hoisted the passenger
