In the past day our office has received numerous requests for information about a woman who apparently went overboard from the Disney Wonder cruise ship two days ago.
There are no reports of this alleged incident in the mainstream press. This does not necessarily mean anything because the last three cruise line overboard were either not reported
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
A reader of Cruise Law News alerted us that the Carnival Miracle lost a crew member overboard late in the night on March 14th or in the early hours of March 15th. The cruise ship was sailing between Curacao and Aruba.
A newspaper in Curacao reports that the missing crew member was a 47 year old man from
Newspapers in India are reporting that a young man working as a crew member on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship disappeared at sea.
"Disappearances" at sea have been a regular occurrence on Royal Caribbean cruise ships over the past several years.
The Times of India ("Did ‘Missing’ Ship Staffer End Life?") and the Hindustan Times ("Chef Commits
A newspaper in Belize is reporting that a 21 year old cruise passenger went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas cruise ship and disappeared today.
7 News Belize reports that the passenger went overboard from the 12th deck of the cruise ship. The passenger’s family noticed that he was missing around 9:00 a.m. this morning. When the
Today, two stories broke about cruise ship crimes issues.
The first story involved three Royal Caribbean crew members arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into Baltimore from the Dominican Republic via Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas cruise ship. We have written a lot about passengers and crew members using cruise ships to smuggle drugs. Earlier this year, passengers
A newspaper in Brazil is reporting that a young man, age 19, died after "falling" from the MSC Orchestra cruise ship, anchored in Ilhabela, in the northern coast of São Paulo in the early morning hours today. The Federal Police of San Sebastian is investigating the incident.
Although MSC Cruises released a statement that it will wait
This weekend we received an anonymous email that a passenger died while waiting for an airlift off of the Sea Princess. Also a passenger had gone overboard from the Sea Princess and is still missing. The ship stopped, turned around, and was still looking for the passenger as of yesterday.
As usual, passengers aboard the Sea Princess
A Korean television station is reporting that more than 30 Chinese tourists remain missing in Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju after 44 of them abandoned a tour group from a cruise ship.
The Chinese passengers arrived on the Italian cruise ship Costa Classica Sunday in Jeju from Shanghai and went to visit tourist sites on the island but did not return
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BBC News reports that a passenger is missing from the Fred Olsen 1,350 passenger cruise ship Balmoral, which is due to return to Dover tomorrow after a 21-day Adriatic cruise.
The cruise ship was in the English Channel when the unidentified passenger was noticed to be missing. A Royal Navy frigate, the HMS Westminster, is taking part in the
The police in Hong Kong arrested a 47 year old passenger after he reportedly pushed his 43 year old wife overboard from the MV Macau Success cruise ship yesterday.
The cruise ship made an emergency call to police at 7:40 a.m. reporting that a woman had been pushed into the sea at 7:20 a.m. The police sent
OnlinePoker.net reports that a 51 year old passenger aboard the SuperStar Aquarius lost HK$5 million ($650,000) playing baccarat. He then leaped to his death from the top floor of the 13-deck cruise ship.
The article identifies the passenger as “Xu” and states that he gambled at the baccarat table until it closed at 8 a.m.
Has another person disappeared from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship?
A passenger on Royal Caribbean’s mega ship Oasis of the Seas is commenting on Cruise Critic that the Captain announced earlier this afternoon that the cruise ship was turning around to search for a missing person.
Passengers aboard the cruise ship (see the comments below
A member of Cruise Critic sailing aboard Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas cruise ship is commenting that a crew member apparently went overboard from the cruise ship last night. There is a suggestion by those on the cruise ship that the crew member is a waiter and may have jumped.
We reported earlier this year
After endless promotional movie clips, Lifetime Movie Network (LMN) finally premiered "Deadly Honeymoon" tonight. The movie is loosely based (very loosely based) on the tragic death of George Smith IV during his honeymoon cruise with our client, Jennifer Hagel, aboard Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas cruise ship in July 2005.
The movie follows two young newlyweds from Denver, Colorado as
For the past three years, I have written several hundreds of pages of stories about the cruise ship cases we have handled. The cruise lines’ skill, in engaging in an endless number of stunts and cover ups before judges and juries, our U.S. Congress and the American people, never ceases to amaze me.
I have written these stories with an eye toward incorporating these experiences into a
A newspaper in India is reporting that there are developments in the sad case of Neha Chhikara, who died after going overboard from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Monarch of the Seas on New Year’s Eve. Ms. Chhikara was sailing aboard the cruise ship with her husband, Ankit Dalal, who is described as working on the Monarch as a "manager" of some type.
A blockbuster story has been published in Germany tracking crimes and the "disappearances" of passengers and crew members from cruise ships over the past decade.
Published in the popular German magazine "Wunderwelt Wisen," the article discusses the cases of passengers James Scavonne, Dianne Brimble, Merrian Carver, Christopher Caldwell, and George Smith IV
