A year and a half ago, I wrote about the danger of serious injury and death created by the “FlowRider” attraction on Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship. The article is entitled Wipeout! Liability of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line for FlowRider Accidents.
In the article, I discussed that the cruise line forces the passengers to sign
A news station in California is reporting that a woman is dead after falling around 75 feet from the Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor Monday evening.
KABC News in Long Beach states that the woman "fell off a walkway" around 8:30 p.m. yesterday evening and plunged into the water below.
Another person jumped into the water to try and rescue the
CBC News in Canada published a story this week about cruise passenger Bernie Hamilton, age 66, who died following a Holland America Line ("HAL") cruise due to what sounds like a series of errors by the ship’s medical personnel. The article is entitled "Cruise Death Prompts Warning on Ships’ Medical Care."
I have heard these stories time after time over the
A number of readers of our blog have contacted us asking for information about a jet ski mishap where a cruise passenger apparently died in the Bahamas on November 24th.
The incident reportedly occurred after the cruise passenger rented a jet ski at the Atlantis resort in Nassau. The passenger had sailed to Nassau aboard the Carnival Magic cruise
Multiple news sources are reporting that a sixteen year old girl vacationing in the Cayman Islands during a cruise is in a critical condition following a collision between a jet ski and a "banana boat" near Seven Mile Public Beach.
The incident occurred shortly after noon on Thursday. The local police stated that the jet ski was being ridden by
Most cruise passengers who sail on luxury cruises to the Caribbean, Mexico or Europe have a false sense of security. They think that if anything goes wrong during the cruise, the cruise line will take care of them. But when passengers get sick, the reality is that the cruise line will dump them off of the cruise ship as
Yesterday I reported on a settlement which a passenger from Texas reached after she was seriously injured while trying to step off a tender boat onto the dock in Grand Cayman. The case illustrates the liability of cruise lines when they fail to safely transfer their passengers from the cruise ship to shore during ports of
Local CBS News 4 reports on a settlement reached yesterday between Carnival cruise line and a passenger trying to exit from a tender boat.
Elizabeth Reimer of Texas sailed out of Galveston to the Caribbean. When the cruise ship reached Grand Cayman, the cruise ship ferried passengers to and from the port via tender boats
MSNBC has an interesting article today by travel columnist, Christopher Elliott, entitled Staying Safe on the High Seas.
Mr. Elliott reports on the new cruise ship security and safety law signed by President Obama, the problem of sexual assaults, noro-virus, and medical facilities aboard cruise ships.
The article quoted me saying that:
"The last place you want
An article this morning in the Chicago Tribune caught my attention – "Compensation Doesn’t Float After Cruise Ship Skips Port." The article involved a family’s request for a refund after a cruise ship missed one of the scheduled ports of call. Instead, the cruise line issued a $500 credit toward a future cruise – $200 for each parent
The Federal Maritime Commission just issued the folowing update regarding Cruise West cancelations and refund options:
The United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) has announced on its website that consumers should be aware that partial or full reimbursement of lost payments and/or deposits for Cruise West products made prior to September 11, 2010, may be protected under the
Cruise West has announced that it will cease most of its operations tomorrow September 18th. The statement of the company can be read here.
The Federal Maritime Comission has provided us with the following statement regarding the cancellations of cruises by Cruise West:
Update: According to Cruise West, the September 22 Danube cruise will
Last year I wrote a blog entitled "Cruise Ship Brawls – A Problem that Will Get Bigger with Bigger Ships" addressing the increasing violence on cruise ships. I posted the following comments and questions:
"Complicating matters is the huge amount of alcohol which the cruise lines sell to the passengers, which often leads to drunken
MSNBC published an article yesterday about cruise passenger tickets entilted "Seven Clauses to Be Aware Of In Your Cruise Contract." There is a lot of "fine print’ designed to take away or limit passenger rights drafted in the ticket by the cruise lines.
Compared to the one page ticket issued to passengers on the Titanic 100 years
One of the surprises awaiting passengers after they have been injured or assaulted on a cruise ship is language in the passenger ticket which requires them to file suit in a jurisdiction far from their home.
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Norwegian Cruise Lines have prepared "forum
The FBI is investigating a passenger rape aboard the MS Bahamas Celebration cruise ship which is operated by Celebration Cruise Line from the Port of Palm Beach.
A blog associated with the Palm Beach Post – Jose Mambiet’s Page 2 Live – reports that a 52 year old woman was forced to have sex with a man, another passenger, on a
The Calgary Herald reoprorts thst a Spanish woman fell to her death Saturday off the gangway of a cruise ship moored in Genoa, Italy.
Maria Mercedes Bonastre, 62, of Barcelona was boarding the ship with her husband and friends when the top step of the plank gave way.
The newspaper reports that the passenger was killed immediately
In the last several months, many cruise passengers contacted our office who have been seriously injured on the FlowRiders on Royal Caribbean cruise ships. Some passenger are injured when they fall. Others are injured after they fall and then the water current drives them over the ridge into the back wall breaking their ankles.
The
