The Florida Director of Field Operations (DFO Florida) for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Port Canaveral has continued a series of deportations involving cruise ship crew members, this time following a targeted Child Sexually Exploitative Material (CSEM) “enforcement operation.” CSEM is typically called Child Sexual Abuse Material (“CSAM”). DFO Florida recently announced that an
Four additional Filipino crew members, this time from the Carnival Pride, were detained and deported while in the Port of Baltimore, on September 7th, 2025, according to an account in the popular CruiseMapper. This brings the total number of Filipinos recently deported to well over 100.
A Filipino galley steward, who worked
A man jumped overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas after he lost more than $16,000 in the ship’s casino. The man has been identified as Jey Xander Omar Gonzalez Diaz.
The incident occurred around 9:15 a.m. on September 7, just as passengers were disembarking in San Juan following a week-long Caribbean voyage.
Gonzalez
