The recent news of a crew member sexually assaulting a woman on an unidentified cruise ship sailing to St. Thomas reported by several newspapers in the U.S. Virgin Islands involved what the prosecutor is characterizing in court documents as a “brazen rape of his colleague.”
The criminal complaint, supporting affidavit of the investigating FBI agent,
The Virgin Island Consortium reported today that a crew member was arraigned in Federal District Court for the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas on charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a passenger on a cruise ship.
The newspaper announced the charges against a Filipino crew member by the name of Louie Isom Mangampat. According to
The El Universo newspaper reports that the Celebrity Xpedition cruise ship ran aground and became stranded on a sandbar yesterday evening.
The newspaper states that the cruise ship ran aground Tuesday at Punta Vicente Roca, located north of Isabela Island in the 
Galapagos.
The Celebrity ship sent an alert yesterday evening. The Armed Forces of
The Spanish Rescue Company, Salvamento Marítimo, medevaced a 73 year-old woman from the Celebrity Reflection today.
El crucero Celebrity Reflection solicitó ayer la evacuación médica de un pasajero danés de 73 años cuando se encontraban a 50 millas al oeste de Palma de Mallorca. Nuestro helicóptero Helimer 215 lo trasladó al hospital de Son Espases. #SeguridadMaritima pic.twitter.com/7kbmGnSaSV
— SALVAMENTO MARÍTIMO (@salvamentogob) October 18, 2019
The Celebrity cruise ship was reportedly 50 miles west of Palma de Mallorco at the time of the medical evacuation. The helicopter flew the passenger to the hospital of Son Espases, which is north of Palma in
Last night, October 8, 2019, the Coast Guard of New Zealand dispatched a helicopter to the Celebrity Solstice to medevac a crew member who needed to be hospitalized.
The Solstice had departed the Bay of Islands at about 5:30 in the afternoon. After two hours, the captain reportedly announced that he had reduced the speed
Two Celebrity crew members apparently jumped from the Celebrity Summit cruise ship earlier this week. Canadian fire-rescue and coast guard departments rescued them both from the cold Saint Lawrence River.
Several newspapers reported that the crew menbers apparently jumped into the river in Quebec City early on Monday morning. Le Soleil newspaper reported that the
Today, the Miami News Times published an article titled: Sexual Assault Is the Most Publicly Reported Crime on Cruises, but Companies Say It’s Rare.
Written by Meg O’Connor, the article begins by reporting on a sexual assault committed against a nineteen-year-old passenger by a fitness instructor on the Celebrity Summit while docked in Bermuda.
Several guests aboard the Celebrity Summit have notified us that the cruise ship is currently unable to leave the port in San Juan, Puerto Rico due to what the guests understand to be either a “computer glitch” or “propulsion issues.”
The Summit was scheduled to leave San Juan yesterday but has been unable to due
A Celebrity Cruises officer reportedly ended his life on the Celebrity Millennium, according to an article published yesterday by the Crew Center website.
On December 6th, Anton Ilichev, a young officer from Ukraine, was reportedly found 
hanging dead in his cabin’s bathroom, according to the article.
Crew Center states that Mr. Ilichev was working
A strike in San Juan today impacted cruise passengers on the Celebrity Summit and Jewel of the Seas. Departing passengers have been unable to retrieve their luggage and take taxis to the airport and arriving passengers have been delayed or unable to travel to the port due to the strikes.
Social media (Twitter and
Earlier this afternoon, a passenger aboard the Celebrity Constellation informed me that the Celebrity cruise ship broke its moorings in La Spezia, Italy due to torrential winds during a heavy rain storm.
https://www.facebook.com/crucerofun/videos/2204702716519737/
We were subsequently informed via Twitter that once the mooring lines broke, the Constellation struck the Costa Magica which was
A crew member reportedly went overboard from the Celebrity Reflection last night, according to a passenger on the cruise ship.
The Celebrity cruise ship was sailing from Mykonos, Greece to Rhodes, Greece.
The passenger posted comments about the incident on her Twitter page and also on Instagram:
The Celebrity Reflection cruise ship has returned to look for a crew member who went overboard last night. Waiting for coast guard. All ships in area searching sea. Sad. #manoverboard #celebrity
— Janis Cooley Leonard (she/her) (@leonardjan) October 17, 2018
Sad day on the ship. Crew member overboard last night. Raced full speed back this morning to engage in rescue efforts and released by coast guard after seven… https://t.co/o6vPq7HKF6
— Janis Cooley Leonard (she/her) (@leonardjan) October 17, 2018
The majority of crew members who
The United States Coast Guard medevaced a passenger from a Celebrity Cruises cruise ship yesterday.
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew performed a medical rescue of a woman from the Celebrity Solstice cruise ship near Noyes Island, west of Craig, Alaska, on May 30, 2018.
The captain of the Celebrity cruise ship contacted the
A number of newspapers are reporting that a resident of New York is suing Celebrity Cruises after he scalded his feet on a hot deck on one of its cruise ships several years ago.
The 66 year-old passenger, who apparently suffered from pre-existing neuropathy of his feet, was sailing aboard the Celebrity Silhouette when the
News sources in Mexico are reporting that an excursion boat with cruise passengers aboard sank last week.
Riviera Maya News reports that the cruise excursion incident took place on Wednesday January 3rd, approximately 15 minutes after the boat sailed from Cozumel with ten cruise guests aboard it. The boat’s crew instructed the cruise passengers to head to
What happened? On December 19, 2017, an excursion bus (identified as tourist bus number 1012, Mercedes Benz, license plates 82 RA7V), operated by a Mexican transportation company on behalf of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., carrying passengers from the Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas and from the Celebrity Equinox (also owned by Royal Caribbean) ran
Multiple news sources are reporting that at least twelve people died when a bus carrying anywhere from twenty-seven to thirty-one cruise passengers on an excursion to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flipped over on a highway earlier today. Additional cruise passengers, with some sources suggesting up to eighteen people, were also injured in the accident.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the Celebrity Infinity’s allision with a dock last year in Ketchkan, Alaska was the master’s failure to plan, monitor, and execute a safe docking maneuver.
You can read the NTSB report here. A photo from the NTSB report is to the left.
