Miami news stations are reporting that several passengers from the Holland American Line Ryndam were medevaced to hospitals in Miami this evening.
WSVN Channel 7 reports that one of the victims suffered a leg injury, one sustained a head injury, and a third passenger may have suffered a heart attack.
The news station says that the
Yesterday a cabin attendant discovered two cruise passengers dead in their cabin on the Holland America Line (HAL) Ryndam.
The proper procedure for the cruise line to follow is for the crew member(s) to immediately leave the cabin, lock the door and call security who, in turn, will secure the cabin and assign a
The crime started with the room service attendant using his master key card to enter the passenger’s cabin.
As reported by the Sun Sentinel, when the woman returned to her cabin for the next 30 to 60 minutes, the Holland America Line attendant Ketut Pujayasa beat and choked the woman. He tried to snap
Yesterday, a reader of Cruise Law News sent me a message indicating that Holland America Line (HAL) is announcing that it is testing a man overboard system.
The reader was a recent cruise passenger aboard the HAL Nieuw Amsterdam during the first week of this month. He mentioned that the announcement was in the ship’s
This morning, the body of a crew member missing from the Holland America Line (HAL) Ryndam washed ashore in Pinellas County, Florida, a local news station in Clearwater reports.
The HAL crew member disappeared from the Ryndam near Egmont Key when the cruise ship was returning to port in Tampa on December 21, 2014. There
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The Sun Sentinel reports that the Broward County Sheriffs Office arrested a Holland American Line (HAL) crew member for grand theft after he was caught stealing than $10,000 on a HAL cruise ship.
The newspaper states that the sheriff’s office charged Anthonius Novi Hartanto, age 42, from Indonesia with eleven counts of grand theft after
Holland America Line announced that it is cancelling the 7 night October 11th cruise of the Veendam from Quebec, Canada to Boston because of problems with one of the cruise ship’s propellers.
HAL has already cancelled the sailings on the Veendam for the September 28th and October 4th cruises to try and fix the
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The Coast Guard News reports that a Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter medevaced a 84 year old passenger from the Holland America Line cruise ship Oosterdam near Glacier Bay last week.
The helicopter flew from Sitka and hoisted the elderly passenger from the cruise ship and transferred her to Juneau.
The Oosterdam reported that the woman was
There is an interesting post on the message board at Cruise Critic, indicating that a fire broke out in the incinerator room of the HAL Noordam around 3 A.M. on August 25th.
The fire reportedly was extinguished it seems after a hour, more or less.
The cruise passenger indicated that the captain of the
Today I ran across an interesting video prepared by a Holland American Line passenger following the boiler fire on the M/S Westerdam.
You may recall that the Westerdam caught fire on June 28, 2014 as it was sailing to Alaska. The automatic fire suppression did not extinguish the fire and the crew had to