A former employee of Carnival Cruise Lines sent us two short videos of rough weather striking an unidentified cruise ship.
The first video is from the bridge camera and shows waves striking over the bow.
The second and more dramatic video shows water smashing through a window and engulfing the interior of the cruise ship
Carnival Cruise Lines is dropping the British Virgin Islands port of Tortola next year.
Carnival intended to send five cruise ships to Tortola through April 2015.
The port is overhauling its cruise ship dock, and passengers may be required to tender from the ship to shore, Carnival spokeswoman Jennifer de la Cruz said.
The Carnival
The Carnival Glory made its last home port stop today in Norfolk. It’s now heading here to Miami.
According to the Washington Post, Carnival said this summer that it would not deploy the Glory (or any other Carnival cruise ship) from Norfolk in 2014.
According to ABC-13, Carnival cited new environmental regulations on emissions (requiring
Travel Weekly and Skift recently reported that the new CEO of Carnival Corporation, Arnold Donald, will receive the following in compensation:
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$1 million base salary to start, with reviews by the board of directors to increase or decrease his salary;
A fixed bonus of $1.125 million for 2013;
A one-time award of performance-based restricted stock
Last month, the Sun Sentinel reported that Carnival’s earnings "continue to be hurt by a series of embarrassing mishaps and softened demand for certain cruises that has kept fares low." The world’s largest cruise operator reported a 30 percent drop in third-quarter profits.
Critics have attributed Carnival’s woes to damage to its namesake cruise line’s
It’s hard to develop a reputation worse than Carnival Cruise Lines these days but a lawyer in Houston may have accomplished that feat.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Houston lawyer John Bruster Loyd filed a lawsuit against Carnival Cruise Lines on behalf of a couple in Texas.
He alleged that they had been
A local news station in Broward County reports that the U.S. Coast Guard has medevaced a seriously injured passenger from an unidentified Carnival cruise ship today.
The woman, who sustained injuries to both of her legs, was hoisted onto a Coast Guard helicopter and flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach.
The news
A news station in Norfolk Virginia reports that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an ill passengers from a Carnival cruise ship near Norfolk to a local hospital today.
The news station states that this morning at around 10:45 A.M., the Carnival Splendor cruise ship contacted the Coast Guard regarding a 57-year-old woman who required medical
Cruise Law News has received inquiries from several Carnival Cruise Lines crew members complaining that the cruise line recently terminated the retirement benefits for crew members.
Like many other cruise lines, Carnival Cruise Lines previously offered a small retirement benefit which crew members were eligible to receive for working a number of years of uninterrupted
A federal judge denied Carnival Cruise Lines’ motion to punish a teenager who admitted that she lied when claiming that the cruise ship’s security personnel forced her to remove her tampon in a search for marijuana.
Courthouse News Service reports that one of Carnival’s security officers noticed that a 17-year-old passenger on Sensation cruise
This week several people died during cruises on ships owned by Carnival Corporation. A young seafarer died on the Carnival-owned Cunard Queen Victoria cruise ship. A crew member from the Carnival Conquest was crushed to death at the port of New Orleans. And most tragically, a 6 year-old boy needlessly drowned on the Carnival
The Times Picayune on line newspaper reports that a Carnival Cruise Line crew member died today while the Carnival Conquest cruise ship was at port in New Orleans.
The accident occurred while the crew member was using a operating a "man lift" (also called a "cherry picker") which raises workers up the exterior of the
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Inside Edition aired a program about a 29 year old woman "Sarah" who sailed on the Carnival Destiny to celebrate her 30th birthday. After too much drinking, she fell from the balcony into the water.
Despite the pleas of her cabin mate and another passenger, the captain sailed on. It took an hour and a
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The AP reports that a 6-year-old boy drowned in a pool on Carnival Victory cruise ship on Sunday.
Carnival said that this was the first time a child drowned on one of its ships.
But just last month a 41 year-old passenger drowned in one of the hot tubs on the Carnival Dream.
The non-profit International Cruise Victims (ICV) organization released an interesting press statement today.
Earlier this year, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee convened a hearing about protecting cruise ship passengers. Senator Rockefeller planned to introduce legislation which required the cruise industry to report crimes and overboards which occur on cruise ships.
Under intense pressure
Last week we reported on the death of a passenger aboard the Carnival Dream cruise ship on September 20, 2013.
The incident involved a man who was found unconscious under the water in a hot tub on the cruise ship.
Several news outlets are reporting today that the man was 41 year-old Michael Moses Ward, also
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Several cruise passengers have stated that a passenger died aboard the Carnival Dream on September 20 2013.
Cruise passengers indicate that they got into one of the hot tubs on the cruise ship Friday evening and realized that another passenger, a man, was under the water. The man reportedly was removed from the tub, and
Last week the public was transfixed on the incredible spectacle of the "parbuckling" project which, at a cost of $800,000,000 and rising, finally but successfully righted the capsized Costa Concordia in the port of Giglio.
The major news networks offered live streaming video of the event. Social media, especially Twitter, provided non-stop, second-by-second updates
