There has been remarkably little media coverage of the fire on the Dawn Princess cruise ship last weekend.
We were the first to report on the fire which broke out sometime after 8:00 PM Friday night as the Dawn Princess sailed between Wellington and Napier in New Zealand.
Princess Cruises was tight lipped about what
Professor Ross Klein’s website reports that the Caribbean Fantasy, operated by American Cruise Ferries, failed a surprise inspection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month.
The Caribbean Fantasy received a failing score of 81. The CDC report is, in a word, gross.
The CDC discovered major problems with the
The Centers for Disease Control Prevention (Vessel Sanitation Program) has given failing scores to two cruise ships following inspections this summer.
The Regent’s Seven Seas Navigator and Un-Cruise Adventures’ Safari Endeavour flunked the CDC’s sanitation inspections.
Regent’s Seven Seas Navigator scored a dismal score of 79. You can read the report here.
The Safari
Celebrity Cruises Millennium cruise ship that was grounded in Alaska last week is having trouble again.
Celebrity Cruises said in a statement:
Due to a mechanical problem in one of Celebrity Millennium’s two propulsion units, the ship returned to Ketchikan last night, The ship is capable of sailing without the affected unit. However, in an
The cover up is always worse than the crime, the saying goes.
When we first contacted SilverSea Cruises earlier this month, we asked the cruise line for an explanation regarding the Silver Shadow’s failed CDC sanitation inspection. This was before the CDC report was issued and before the CNN story aired. We specifically asked for
Yesterday CNN aired a special program about the "hide and seek" games which crew members were ordered to play on the Silver Shadow cruise ship, where the ship routinely hid trolleys of food items in crew members cabins to avoid detection by sanitation inspectors of the U.S. Public Health Department.
Our little blog was the
Last week we published an article that Silversea supervisors forced crew members aboard the Silver Shadow to hide trolleys of food in the crew quarters to avoid detection by USPH inspectors: Silver Shadow Fails Sanitation Inspection After Caught Hiding Filthy Conditions from Health Inspectors
Today the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published its report.
It’s
Last Monday I published an article about the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) failing the Silver Shadow cruise ship following a surprise inspection last month when the ship was calling on Skagway, Alaska. The article is entitled: Silver Shadow Fails Sanitation Inspection After Caught Hiding Filthy Conditions from Health Inspectors
Former Silversea
