AOL News has an interesting article about cruise ship dangers. Written by Tori Richards, the article is entitled "New Law Targets Dangers Aboard Cruise Ships." It features Ken Carver, the President of the International Cruise Victims organization.
Here is the article reprinted from AOL News:
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 28) — Missing persons. Assault.
In July, President Obama signed the Cruise Vessel Security & Safety Act. On the President’s right side in the Oval Office was Sacramento resident and my friend, Laurie Dishman. On his left side, Laurie’s Congresswoman, Doris Matsui.
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The new cruise law involves a remarkable story about the bravery of Laurie Dishman. Laurie went on a Royal Caribbean cruise in February 2006 to celebrate her 35th birthday and
I instantly took a liking to Jamie Barnett when I first met her.
In 2007, Jamie traveled to Fort Lauderdale to attend a meeting between the International Cruise Victims ("ICV") and the cruise industry trade association, the Cruise Line International Association ("CLIA"). Jamie had flown in from Los Angeles for the meeting.
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Jamie, a Mississippi-native-turned-L.A.-resident, traveled to Florida as part
Yesterday evening, the International Cruise Victims (ICV) organization hosted a reception in Washington D.C. to celebrate the passing of the Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act.
The reception was held in the Capital building and was well attended by Congressional leaders and their staff, members of the ICV, members of victim and rape crisis non-profit
This was a historic week in the world of cruising.
Congress passed the Cruise Vessel and Safety Act, which will help make cruising safer for U.S. families. Cruise lines will be required to install peepholes in cabin doors, maintain anti-retroviral medications and rape kits for victims, improve crime evidence handling procedures and – for the first time in
Last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a safety bill for cruise passengers which will require cruise ships to reports crimes on the high seas to the FBI and the U.S. Coast Guard.
The bill will require the cruise industry to comply with a number of security provisions including specific rail heights, peep holes, warning devices, and cabin security measures. The requirment that cruise
A local news station in Phoenix, Arizona, ABC-15 (KNXV), is reporting on the latest efforts by Kendall Carver to protect families who cruise in international waters.
In a video interview entitled "Valley Man Pushes for New Laws after Daughter Vanishes," Mr. Carver explains that his 40-year-old vanished on the second day of a seven-day
Today we have another guest blog by Caitlin Burke who is a member of the International Cruise Victims organization and is interning at our firm. Caitlin’s blog last week – Better Safe Than Sorry – Spring Break Safety Tips – was named one of Lexblog’s Ten Best Blogs of 3,000 law blogs for the week!
Caitlin’s Cruise Blog:
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Today we had the honor of being invited to speak to the maritime law society at Stetson University College of Law.
Stetson has the oldest law school in Florida, founded in 1900. Its campus is located on the beautiful Mediterranean style architecture campus in Gulfport, Florida.
I discussed the topic “Crime on Cruise Ships,”
The Paradise Valley United Methodist Church in Arizona dedicated a bronze statue in remembrance of Merrian Carver, the daughter of Carol Carver and International Cruise Victims president Ken Carver.
We have written about Merrian’s "disappearance" in 2004 during a cruise to Alaska, and Mr. Carver’s five year battle to reform the cruise industry:
A local news station in Phoenix Arizona, KPHO, aired an interview with Ken Carver whose daughter, Merrian, "disappeared" on a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean’s subsidiary, Celebrity Cruises. KPHO’s story is entitled "Valley Father Fights For Cruise Ship Safety."
The video of Mr. Carver’s interview can be viewed here.
Today, the House of Representatives passed the Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act of 2009. This is a remarkable event. For the first time in the history of the cruise industry, cruise lines are now required to report crimes which occur on cruise ships to the U.S. Coast Guard and the FBI. There has been an epidemic of
ABC News reports that an Australian jury in the trial of cruise passenger Mark Wilhelm, accused of killing Dianne Brimble aboard a P & O cruise ship, has reached an unanimous verdict on one of two charges.
The prosecution charged defendant Wilhelm with manslaughter and "supplying a prohibited drug" (the date rape drug, GHB).
We have discussed this case in previous blogs:
A criminal trial begins this week in Australia in the case of cruise passenger Dianne Brimble, a passenger sailing with her children on P & O Cruises’ Pacific Sky in 2002. It has been seven years since Ms. Brimble’s ill fated cruise which ended with her death. A coroner determined the cause of her demise
For the past many years, I have watched cruise lines respond to each disappearance at sea by blaming the passenger.
Selling Dreams of Carefree Vacations
Cruise lines like Carnival and Royal Caribbean spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to create the illusion of carefree vacation getaways where hard working Americans can relax, let
If you are retired or a child and die on a cruise ship due to the cruise ship’s negligence, the cruise line will consider your life to be worthless under current maritime law.
Your family will face a law called the Death on the High Seas Act, commonly known as “DOHSA.” In 1920, Congress
