After kicking disabled cruise passenger Jim Keskeny off in a Caribbean island alone, Celebrity Cruises responded to Mr. Keskeny’s request for reimbursement of his cruise fare and travel expenses home with a "bombastic and bullying" letter threatening him with legal fees and costs, according to his Mr. Keskeny’s Michigan lawyer Richard Bernstein.
The cruise line threats
A newspaper in Michigan is reporting on what is described as a the "shocking and scary" story of a disabled cruise passenger who faced the obstacles of a non ADA-compliant cruise ship only to have the cruise line force him off the ship in a Caribbean port to fend for himself alone.
Jim Keskeny, age 66, is confined
The medical journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases" published an article entitled "Disease Transmission and Passenger Behaviors During a High Morbidity Norovirus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship, January 2009."
Of some 1842 passengers on the cruise ship, 1532 (83%) returned questionnaires provided by the researchers. 236 (15%) met the norovirus definition.
This particular cruise had a passenger vomit in
A reader of Cruise Law News informs us that a crew member from a Celebrity Cruises ship disappeared at sea.
Indian crew member Anthony Rodrigues went overboard on March 10, 2011 from the Celebrity Constellation. Mr. Rodrigues was a 19 year employee of the cruise line. His family members in Mumbai were not notified for two days and
Several newspapers in California are reporting that the FBI arrested a crew member aboard Celebrity Cruises’ Constellation on child-pornography charges after the cruise ship arrived at the Port of San Diego.
According to the Union Tribune newspaper in San Diego, Amado Nicholas Hernandez, age 31, was employed by Celebrity Cruises as an audiovisual manager and provided onboard guest-entertainment services.
The Observer in St. Kitts-Nevis is reporting that cruise passengers on a tour bus were robbed this morning, apparently during an excursion from a cruise ship – "Busload of Tourists Robbed at Gunpoint."
The robbery reportedly occurred in the Sandy Point area on the island. A "local tour bus of cruise passengers had been robbed at gunpoint along
Professor Ross Klein’s Cruise Junkie web site contains an account of a passenger jumping overboard from Celebrity Solstice last Friday:
From a reader: The story on the cruise that I was on goes like this: On early Friday morning around 1:30 am a person fell overboard from the 5th floor. It took them about an hour
A local news station in Charleston South Carolina is reporting that passengers aboard the Mercury cruise ship on the March 21st sailing are ill. The story is entitled "Five Cases of Norovirus on Celebrity Mercury Cruise Ship."
The article suggests that the information came from the cruise line, although I do not see a
A local news station in Phoenix, Arizona, ABC-15 (KNXV), is reporting on the latest efforts by Kendall Carver to protect families who cruise in international waters.
In a video interview entitled "Valley Man Pushes for New Laws after Daughter Vanishes," Mr. Carver explains that his 40-year-old vanished on the second day of a seven-day
So far, no one is reporting an outbreak of sickness aboard Celebrity Cruises’ Mercury cruise ship for its latest – March 21st – sailing. This is good news after the last three disastrous cruises.
Today’s South Carolina Post and Courier newspaper runs the headline "Mercury Appears Free of Norovirus" in which the newspaper reports: "after several days at
At 8:00 p.m. this evening, Celebrity Cruises’ Mercury cruise ship will sail for an eight day cruise to the Caribbean.
The Mercury has been called the "sickest sea at sea." Even ABC’s Good Morning America posed the question: Celebrity Mercury – Sickest Ship At Sea – Can Cruise Ship Be Cured?
Local South Carolina ABC affiliate WCIV News
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 406 of the 1829 passengers (22.1%) aboard Celebrity’s Mercury cruise ship have reported fever, vomiting, and/or diarrhea. These CDC statistics are based entirely on the information provided by the cruise line.
In the past week, we have received information from crew members that although they were sick, they were required
The Celebrity Mercury cruise ship returned to port in Charleston South Carolina today with over 400 sick passengers. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 406 of the 1829 passengers (22.1%) have reported fever, vomiting, and/or diarrhea.
Unlike the last two cruises where the CDC determined that norovirus caused the outbreak, the CDC has not yet determined
ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) discusses Celebrity Cruises’ sick cruise ship, the Mercury, in this morning’s program.
The Mercury has been hit with three continuous outbreaks of sickness which has plagued hundreds of passengers. We have covered the outbreaks in prior articles.
GMA begins its show by describing the Mercury as the "cruise ship which
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a rare no-sail advisory for Celebrity Cruises’ Mercury cruise ship. The CDC has instructed Celebrity not to sail the sick cruise ship until Sunday in order to permit its inspectors to investigate the ongoing outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness.
Over the course of the last month, hundreds of passengers have become sick on the Mercury over
Celebrity Cruises’ disastrous string of "diarrhea-cruises" out of South Carolina continues with the cruise line’s decision to return the Mercury to port in Charleston a day early.
USA Today’s Cruise Log reports that sickness has marred three straight voyages in "Celebrity to End Cruise Out of Charleston Early as Outbreak Continues." Royal Caribbean indicates that
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that Celebrity Cruises’ Mercury cruise ship has returned to Charleston, South Carolina with 182 ill passengers.
According to its web page "Investigation Update on the Mercury," t’he CDC reports 182 of 1749 passengers (10.41%) are ill with diarrhea and vomiting, and 14 of the 850 crew (1.65%) are sick.
With
Celebrity Cruises is again reporting that at least 55 passengers have fallen ill on its Mercury cruise ship with norovirus-like symptoms.
In a prior article we questioned: Will the Celebrity Mercury Infect Another Round of Passengers?
Here We Go Again
A local news source in South Carolina, the Palmetto Scoop, reports on the latest cruise 
ship sickness in
