A second man was arrested for the death of a 60-year-old British man on the MSC Virtousa during its May 3rd–5th voyage. The man was identified as a 56-year-old from Richmond, London. The man’s name was not released by authorities. The first man arrested was a 57-year-old man from Exeter. Both men
British police arrested one man, 57 years old, for the suspected murder of a 60-year-old man aboard the MSC Virtuosa. The MSC Virtuoso was on a two-day cruise sailing from Southampton, England.
The cruise was just two hours into its voyage when the incident took place. The cruise continued its scheduled voyage after the incident.
The popular Crew Center published a video showing what it described as “chaos” which “erupted at the Galveston Cruise Terminal when a massive brawl broke out in the luggage pickup area, after guests disembarked from the cruise ship Carnival Jubilee.” The video had apparently been posted on the Facebook page – COPs – Cruisers
A video of a brawl on the Carnival Paradise as the cruise ship was sailing back to Tampa last month has been circulating for the last two days. Newsweek covered the melee in an article titled “Cruise Ship Fight Video Shows Chairs Being Thrown Amid Chaos.”
Another out-of-control brawl recently broke out on a Carnival Cruise Line ship. The Miami Herald reported on the large fracus which took place on the Carnival Sunrise on September 9th. Included in the article, titled A massive fight broke out on a Carnival cruise ship. Cellphone cameras caught it all, was video featured on
Two brawls reportedly broke out on NCL’s Norwegian Encore earlier this week, with one fight captured by a cruise passenger, identified as Robert Steele, who posted the melee’ on his Facebook page.
He also posted the following comments with the video: “On 34th cruise and first one with a major security incident. NCL Encore
Late Thursday night, a brawl erupted on a MSC cruise ship which had been denied permission to dock in several Caribbean ports this week over fears of coronavirus, according to several news outlets.
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands blocked the MSC Meraviglia from docking when the ship called on Ocho Rios, Jamaica and later when
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Carnival Cruise Line characterized the recent brawl on the Carnival Legend as limited, isolated and unprecedented. But anyone who follows the cruise industry knows that these type of fights which occur on Carnival ships are hardly rare.
There literally are dozens of videos on YouTube of fights which have erupted on cruise ships over
A video of a brawl on the Carnival Legend shows Carnival security officers and other security personnel kicking passengers while they are on the floor. Carnival officers are also shown trying to prevent other passengers from videotaping the violence.
The video, which was taken by a passenger and aired by Australia’s 3AW693 Talk Radio,
A Royal Caribbean galley worker who attacked a supervisor in May of this year on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge William Martini sentenced Donny Martin Crisanto, age 31, of Nicaragua, during a court appearance in Newark, New Jersey.
Cristano had previously
A reader of Cruise Law News brought to my attention today a disturbing story found in a cruise review on Cruise Critic. It’s written by the mother of four sons who were sailing with a group of seven on the Carnival Freedom this month.
The review is titled Anarchy on the Freedom. Take a
A newspaper in Australia is reporting that 16 cruise passengers, with ages between 18 and 23, were booted off the P & O Cruises’ Pacific Dawn cruise ship for fighting.
The incident occurred late at night, with some newspaper accounts suggesting that the men were intoxicated and fighting over a woman.
The Observer reports that one of the
Last night ABC News aired a cruise ship special on its 20/20 program about the Costa Concordia disaster. Narrated by Chris Cuomo from Italy, the one hour program contains an inside look at this latest cruise ship disaster based on interviews with surviving passengers.
You can watch the first segment of the show, which focuses on details of the cruise
Professor Ross Klein’s website CruiseJunkie contains disturbing comments from a cruise passenger aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship who reports that on December 15th during a sailing to the Mexican Riviera a gruesome physical altercation took place in cabin 1306.
Here are the comments:
"Wild, out-of-control alcohol-fueled domestic fight – starts at 9PM, escalates to most certainly a felony assault (or worse)
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New sources report today that hundreds of people cowered for hours inside a shopping mall in the resort town of Cabo San Lucas today while security forces traded gunfire with armed criminals at the Plaza Sendero shopping center.
A local newspaper in Mexico, Milenio, reports that 12 men armed with high powered rifles (AK-47’s), were traveling in three vans (other articles say 3 –
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
