In the past two months, two citizens from the United Kingdom have disappeared during cruises. Disney crewmember Rebecca Coriam went missing from Disney’s Wonder in March while the cruise ship was sailing from California to Mexico. This month, U.K. passenger John Halford vanished from the Spirit cruise ship operated by Thomson Cruise Lines while the ship was approaching Egypt.
Disappearances from
There have been a number of articles about Royal Caribbean initial efforts to down-play the effects of the storm which rocked the Brilliance of the Seas off of the coast of Egypt last week. The cruise lines corporate office here in Miami are electronically linked to the cruise ships and instantly receive electronic images and video transmitted from the
Yesterday, I boarded Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas cruise ship at the Port of Miami for what maritime lawyers call a “vessel inspection.” I boarded the cruise ship with my co-counsel on the case, Jonathan Aronson, and a top engineering expert.
Our client, a passenger, had been seriously injured when she fell on a
The internet has been a buzz today with the release of closed circuit television video (CCTV) of the interior of the P&O Cruises’ Pacific Sun, which ran into a bout of heavy weather in June 2008.
A number of passenger were injured. You can clearly see one young lady smash her face into a column at the 47 second mark in the
While reading cruise expert Dr. Ross Klein’s most excellent cruise site – Cruise Junkie – I found an excerpt of a letter written by a grandmother who was upset that her two grandchildren were booted from the Sapphire Princess cruise ship. As it turns out, security personnel reviewing the 
surveillance cameras spotted the kids throwing some food overboard.
Dr. Klein found
The family of Angelo Faliva continues to search for answers regarding the "disappearance " of Angelo Faliva from Princess Cruises’ Coral Princess cruise ship on November 25, 2009.
Mr. Faliva’s younger sister, Chiara Faliva, has appeared on television in Italy to plea for help, 
following the reported lack of cooperation from Princess Cruises and the Government of
The Seattle Times reports that the passenger who disappeared from Princess Cruises cruise ship Sapphire Princess is Ms. Edelgard Carney, a resident of Sutter Creek, California.
The newspaper also reports that the U.S. Coast Guard has narrowed its search to an area approximately 15 miles south of Ketchikan. A Coast Guard officer is quoted as saying: "Based on