A crew member employed on the Carnival Valor pleaded guilty to possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material (“CSAM”) in a federal district court last week. Reza Heta Pratama, a citizen of Indonesia, was arrested
Another Carnival cruise ship officially failed a recent sanitation inspection today.
I first learned that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) finally published the failed score for the Carnival Liberty upon reading the Miami Herald’s article written by Chabeli Herrera titled Another Carnival cruise was caught with dirty conditions. That makes four in two months
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A passenger went overboard early this morning from the Carnival Liberty cruise ship, per multiple sources. Pursuant to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a 32 year old man from Georgia went overboard from the Liberty around 5:00 a.m. this morning.
According to cruise expert, Dr. Ross Klein, there have been 290 people who have gone
The Carnival Liberty cruise ship experienced unspecified "technical problems" which affected its propulsion and delayed its return to and departure from Galveston yesterday. The problem is substantially slowing the cruise ship.
The Liberty should have arrived early yesterday morning to Galveston, however Carnival stated that there was a technical problem that slowed the ship and needed
Passengers aboard the Carnival Liberty and a local news station in Houston are reporting that a thirty-three year old passenger went overboard early this morning.
The missing passengers has been identified as Samantha Broberg who was initially reported missing by her traveling companions.
The Carnival cruise ship was apparently not equipped with a automatic man overboard
Multiple news sources are reporting that a Carnival crew member was detained today in Puerto Rico on allegations that he raped a woman onboard the Carnival Liberty cruise ship.
Yahoo News says that, according to police, the alleged rape occurred in one of the cabins on the Carnival cruise ship which is now docked in
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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:
News sources are reporting that a Carnival cruise passenger was busted at Port Canaveral with 12 pounds of cocaine in his suitcase after returning from a Caribbean cruise.
The Orlando Sentinel says that Ishermon Tafari, age 31, from the country of Granada, was arrested over the weekend when federal officers entered his cabin on the
The U.S. Coast Guard announced today that it rescued a 51-year-old cruise passenger who was suffering from undisclosed medical issues while aboard a Carnival cruise ship approximately 130 miles southwest of Key West, Florida.
Shortly after noon yesterday, the Coast Guard in Key West received a report from the Carnival Liberty indicating that a
This week we have been contacted by a number of readers who want to know the status of the criminal proceeding against a Carnival crewmember who is accused of sexually abusing a 14 year old girl aboard a Carnival cruise ship.
The incident occurred last month and you can read our initial account of the incident here.
The
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami announced today that it is charging a Carnival Cruise crewmember with sexually abusing a 14 year old passenger aboard the Liberty cruise ship.
According to the criminal complaint filed against the cruise ship employee, Carnival crewmember Kert Clyde Jordan, age 35 of Grenada, engaged in unlawful sexual abuse of a 14-year old
Inconsistent information is emerging regarding the death of a passenger aboard the Liberty cruise ship operated by Carnival cruise line.
On November 20th we wrote about the Passenger Death On Carnival Liberty Cruise Ship based on information from a local news station in Miami – WSVN -7. After posting our article, we received a number of comments from passengers on the
WSVN -7 NEWS (Miami) is reporting that a cruise ship returned to South Florida after a tragedy at sea.
A 36 year old passenger aboard the Carnival Liberty cruise ship sailing to St. Thomas was discovered by another passenger unconscious in her cabin. WSVN reports that the passenger received medical attention on the cruise ship, but she was pronounced dead two hours later.
It does not get any stranger than this.
The Jamaica Observer reports this morning that police in Jamaica arrested a Carnival cruise passenger who jumped from Carnival’s Liberty while the cruise ship was in port in Ocho Rios.
It turns out that this was no ordinary passenger. The police arrested Harold Crooks who was the former commandant
Obtaining accurate information from the cruise industry is difficult. Whenever passengers have a complaint, the cruise lines either ignore them or the cruise lines’ customer relations departments send them a nonsensical letter several weeks later dismissing their complaints or offering a 25% on a future cruise. This often infuriates the passengers who have no intention of ever sailing on a
