A seventy-seven year old passenger reportedly went overboard from Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam in the early morning hours of January 1, 2026 as the cruise ship was returning to South Florida. Online posts on social media show the HAL ship was sailing northeast of Cuba when the incident occurred.
The Nieuw Statendam was on
A passenger from a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship has gone overboard in the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, according to the National Parks Traveler nonprofit media organization.
The Park Service issued a press release Saturday night that it had suspended its search for the missing passenger who reportedly disappeared from
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 73 people have reported sick, with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, on Holland America’s Zaandam during a cruise through Alaska.
58 of all passengers (3.94% of 1,472) and 15 of all crew members (2.54% of 591) have reported ill to the ship infirmary
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a passenger from the Holland America Line Veendam on Thursday.
The medevac involved a 65-year-old woman who was suffering from leg pain. The HAL cruise ship was approximately 50 miles east of Charleston when it contacted the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard station in Charleston flew a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter
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A passenger sailing on a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship near Greece contacted me today, stating that a number of guests are experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms:
"I’m currently on MS Veendam. Left Fort Lauderdale on October 20th and due to return to Fort Lauderdale on December 8th. Currently docked in Souda, Greece. Leaving at 5:00 pm less
There are around 750,000 (some say the number is over 850,000) sexual offenders registered in the United States. Many thousands of these sexual offenders go on cruises each year. Some cruise lines do not permit registered offenders to cruise, but many if not most cruise lines do.
Another lawyer here in Miami recently wrote an
