Crew members who are employed aboard a Hurtigruten ship tested positive today for COVID-19, according to several newspapers in Norway. Nordlys reports that the crew members work on the Hurtigruten expedition cruise ship, the MS Roald Amundsen, which reportedly recently sailed to Svalbard with around 200 passengers. The Hurtigruten ship is currently located at
A Filipino crew member, employed by Disney Cruise Line as a painter aboard the Disney Wonder, died on Tuesday according to the Miami Herald.
Eddie Burgos Ragodon visited the cruise ship’s medical center in recent days with chills, according to another crew member who communicated with the newspaper. It appears that he did
A crew member on the Island Princess died on Wednesday according to several crew members wishing to remain anonymous. The crew member’s name is Candido Catambay. There are no facts publicly available regarding the precise circumstances of the crew member’s death.
It appears that the Island Princess is one of many Carnival Corporation-owned cruise ships
A Cruise and Maritime Voyages (CMV) crew member on the Vasco da Gama cruise ship in the U.K. died early this morning, according to several crew members who wish to remain anonyous.
The crew member was identified as Krishna Kumar Balaji who was employed by CMV as a “1st cook galley.” He reportedly died in
A Filipino crew member died on the Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady, according to several crew members who wish to remain anonymous. His colleagues on the ship stated that he may have intentionaly ended his life.
The cruise ship sailed into the port of Miami earlier this afternoon following this tragedy. @PTZtv live streaming cameras
This afternoon CNBC interviewed Royal Caribbean Richard Fain about when his cruise line will re-start operations and when his crew members will finally be repatriated. Here is a portion of the interview:
“CNBC: . . . we know that this is a challenging time. We really appreciate you spending time with us today.
Disney Cruise Line is now in the process of finally repatriating hundreds of its crew members from some of its cruise ships. Disney transferred crew members from the Disney Fantasy and the Disney Dream to the Disney Magic (AIS location yesterday shown bottom right) which arrived today in 
Dover. Disney initially informed the crew members
According to a crew member on the AIDAblu, a Filipino galley employee by the first name of “Kennith” died earlier today. The captain made a ship-wide announcement of the seafer’s death.
The crew member who informed us of the death stated that a Filipino priest from Hamburg came onto the cruise ship and presided
A crew member employed on the Mariner of the Seas was found dead earlier today by his colleagues. He is the third crew member to have died in just the last two days, and the fourth ship employee to have died in a little over a week.
The crew member is a Chinese national according
A crew member has gone overboard from the Jewel of the Seas, according to several crew members on the Royal Caribbean ship who wish to remain anonymous.
Yesterday, the captain of the ship made an announcement that after “search efforts and a thorough investigation” he was sorry to share that a crew member by the
Two articles published today reveal the sorry state of affairs which crew members face on cruise ships during the COVID-19 pandemic.
100,000 Crew Members Trapped At Sea
The Guardian newspaper in London published an article revealing that there are more than 100,000 crew members still trapped on cruise ships (with at least 50 infected with
Several crew members onboard the Oasis of the Seas informed me that another colleague, Iputu Sugiartha, from the ship died due to COVID-19 this morning (April 20th) in a hospital in Fort Lauderdale. The captain of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship made an announcement over the intercom this morning around 11:00 am. of Mr. Sugiartha’s
Yesterday, April 7, 2020, ambulances transported four crew members, who are ill with coronavirus, from the Oasis of the Seas.
The Royal Caribbean ship called for medical evacuation of these sick crew 
members at the port of Miami. The four ambulances took the crew members to a hospital in Broward County.
According to the
Several MSC crew members state that MSC is attempting to convince them to waive their legal rights to future compensation by signing a repatriation notification document.
MSC recently requested all of its employees on its cruise ships to sign this notification, which states:
“MSC Cruises’ Notification For Crew Members
We care for you,
For the better part of the last decade, I have been writing on a regular basis about disease outbreaks which occur on cruise ships. In the past ten years, there have been over 120 disease outbreaks on cruise ships, involving norovirus, e-coli and other more exotic viruses, as well as measles and Legionnaires Disease.
Princess
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
Today, the popular Crew Center published two articles regarding recent attempts by Filipino seafarers to end their lives.
First, Crew Center mentioned a 24-year-old Filipino crew member, employed by MSC Cruises as a buffet steward, who reportedly posted several comments on social media regarding the long work hours and the little rest during his first
A Disney crew member is heading toward trial in Miami-Dade County on multiple criminal charges that he engaged in lewd and lascivious molestation of a ten year old child aboard the Disney Magic.
The Miami-Dade County Police Department arrested 24 year old Oliver Lovatt on allegation that he sexually molested a young boy in
