On April 8, 2025, we reported on the arrest of a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) crew member on the Norwegian Bliss who was apprehended at the port of Los Angeles at 8:30 a.m. on April 4th for possession and transmission of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) stated

Cruise stocks rallied following President Trump’s announcement on Truth Social that all reciprocal tariffs will be paused for 90 days. This comes after cruise stocks dropped considerably last week with some major brands falling as much as 13 to 16 percent (in one day) after Trump’s initial tariff announcement on over 90 countries on his

Passengers on Quark Expeditions’ Ocean Explorer ship heading back from Antarctica experienced a harrowing journey through the turbulent Drake Passage, where the expedition cruise ship hit waves as high as 30 to 40 feet.  Passengers described the 48 hour experience as being trapped on a “never-ending roller coaster at sea.”

One passenger, travel blogger Lesley

Two adult cruise passengers were arrested last Friday at PortMiami on charges of sexually victimizing a 14 year-old boy on the Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas, according to numerous local news stations.

According to arrest reports from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office , cruise passengers Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal (left photo), age 37

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