Italy has given the green light to Costa and AIDA to resume cruising from Italian ports this month. Meanwhile, the number of positive COVID-19 cases on Costa cruise ships in Italy increased to nine this weekend, according to the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero. The Costa Deliziosa (below right) has four crew members with positive
Three Costa Crew Members Test Positive for COVID-19, Raising Number of Infected Crew Members in Europe to 54
Three Costa Cruise seafarers tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Italian press today. In the last two weeks, over four dozen other crew members employed by AIDA, TUI and Hurtigruten have tested positive.
Costa Favolosa and Costa Deliziosa Crew Members Test Positive
Two of the three Filipino Costa crew members who tested positive were…
Costa Cruise Ship Quarantined Due to Coronavirus
The Italian news agency ANSA and public broadcaster RAI reported this morning that a passenger from Hong Kong on the Costa Smeralda has been found to be showing symptoms (a fever) of what is suspected to be coronavirus. CNN reports that the 54 year old woman and her husband are now were being kept separately…
NoGrandiNavi: Venice Endures Another Out-of-Control Cruise Ship
A little over a month ago, the MSC Opera cruise ship smashed into a dock and another smaller, cruise ship which was disembarking tourists in Venice.
Videos of the huge, out-of-control cruise ship, smashing into the dock and knocking tourists from the little ship in front of it into the water, looked like an attack-of-the-aliens…
300 Kilos of Cocaine: Major Drug Bust on the Costa Favolosa in Brazil
Newspapers in Brazil are reporting that yesterday the federal police arrested sixteen passengers aboard the Costa Favolosa cruise ship who were reportedly carrying 300 kilos of cocaine in their luggage.
The Costa cruise ship was in the port in Santos, Brazil, on the coast of São Paulo, en route to Europe. The newspapers reported …
Costa Luminosa Responds to Vessel on Fire, Aids in Rescue of Crew
This evening (past midnight local time), the Costa Luminosa cruise ship responded to a ship on fire off the Coast of Greece. The Costa ship reportedly aided in the rescue of crew members from the merchant vessel.
The ship fire was tweeted by Angel David / @angeltem.
El crucero #costaluminosa rescatando a otro navío.
Incendio a bordo de un mercante en plena noche. @InfoEmerg @costacruceros @ActualidadRT pic.twitter.com/RfzGbOj6zc— ⚕️Angel David 🇪🇸 (@angeltem) November 20, 2018
The tweet reads: “cruiser #costaluminosa rescuing…
Torrential Winds: Celebrity Constellation Breaks Moorings and Strikes Costa Magica
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.
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We were subsequently informed via Twitter that once the mooring lines broke, the Constellation struck the Costa Magica which was…
Royal Caribbean Cruises Excursion Bus Crash in Mexico – Five Questions
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…
Drug Mules Used Costa Cruise Ships to Smuggle Cocaine
For a two year period from 2012 to 2014, as many as thirty-four people who posed as cruise ship passengers on Costa ships participated in a smuggling network that transported hashish from Morocco to Brazil and cocaine from South America to Europe, according to the The Local newspaper in France.
The French newspaper reported that the "innovative…
Crew Member Overboard from Costa Deliziosa?
Yesterday, a crew member apparently went overboard from the Costa Deliziosa, according to the website of cruise expert, Dr. Ross Klein.
The Deliziosa was at the end of its transatlantic crossing heading to the Canary Islands.
The information was conveyed to Dr. Klein from a person on the Costa cruise ship who wishes…