This weekend was the ten year anniversary of this blog. The first day of publishing Cruise Law News was September 15, 2009.
Over the last decade, I’ve published 3,075 articles about cruise ship related issues. An average of over two million people read around seven million pages of Cruise Law News a year. It is
After nearly nine years, Cruise Law News has a new look.
LexBlog, my blog design and support company in Seattle, re-designed my blog. You will note that the text you are reading is black lettering on a white background, in contrast to the old format (above) with a blue background which people have told
Silversea Cruises’ Silver Wind cruise ship recently failed a sanitation inspection by United States Public Health (USPH) inspectors, in March.
On March 18, 2018, the USPH inspected the Silver Wind in San Juan and found numerous unsanitary violations. Repeated problems were noted in the ship’s potable water treatment. Inspectors located over two dozen flies in
Bloomberg Legal reports today that according to data which it collected over the last several years, 83 federal personal injury cases were filed against cruise lines in the first three months of 2018. Bloomberg concludes that this figure continues an upward trend over the last two years in which 188 negligence suits were filed against cruise
We take the beginning of this new year to thank our readers for following us over the past twelve months.
The motto of this site is "everything cruise lines don’t want you to know." We rely on our passenger-and crew-member friends to keep us informed when things go wrong on the high seas and in
Today, Cruise Law News was picked as the number four (out of fifty) top cruise blogs and websites.
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Feedspot says that it made the selection based on Google search ranking, influence and popularity on Facebook & Twitter, and the quality and consistency of the posts, as well as Feedspot’s editorial review.
The sites ahead of this
Over the years, crew members have sent me lots of stories about what it’s really like to work on a cruise ship. Lots of time they send photos and videos of the working conditions they face.
It’s not the pretty images shown to the guests who occasionally go on behind-the-scene tours.
"Ship life" is how
This morning Cruise Law News hit a milestone when the 150,000th person “liked” our Facebook page.
The motto of this blog is “everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know.” Our main goal is to educate the public about dangers on cruise ships and in ports of call that the cruise industry would
In 2014, 1,718,131 people read 6,104,186 people pages of Cruise Law News.
Our busiest day was April 7, 2014 when over 110,000 visitors read our article when we were the first to report on the murder of a NCL crew member in Roatan, Honduras near the port.
Crime in ports of call was
Last night I watched Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in my favorite movie It’s a Wonderful Life. At this point, I think I’ve seen the classic movie at least once a year for the last 50 years.
I’d like to extend a Merry Christmas and a warm Season’s Greetings from everyone at Cruise Law.