Cruise passengers from the Westerdam and the Noordam Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ships were on three Promech excursion flighseeing planes on the fateful day of June 25th when 8 HAL passengers died.
These passengers experienced substantially similar experiences regarding the weather conditions as the dead passengers. They experienced the same or very similar flight
Following the horrific crime perpetrated by the Holland America Line crew member against the passenger on the Nieuw Amsterdam cruise ship on Valentine’s Day, the cruise industry is pulling out all of the stops to convince the public that the cruise lines carefully screens their employees.
But it’s not true.
Cruise lines don’t vet their
A number of news sources are reporting the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) joined an investigation by the U.K. whether Princess Cruises’ Caribbean Princess cruise ship violated international pollution laws.
Bloomberg News states that Carnival Corporation announced that the DOJ joined an investigation being conducted by the U.K. Maritime & Coastguard Agency which had initiated
Its been a week since a fire erupted on the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas.
There has been widespread praise for the actions of the crew in extinguishing the fire, and for the manner in which the cruise line’s public relations representatives kept the public informed via Twitter, Facebook and other forms
Earlier this week, we reported on the death of a 47-year-old Indonesian crew member, identified as Sahid Bin Fauzi, who worked as a mechanic on the Costa Serena cruise ship. He died after falling into a ventilation duct of one of the ship’s engines.
Today we learn that a criminal prosecutor in Genoa, Italy
Last Friday, I wrote an article about a cruise ship incident where a passenger reported that a Celebrity Cruises crew member “indecently assaulted” her aboard the Celebrity Cruises’ Millennium cruise ship as it sailed from Fiji to New Zealand.
The cruise ship arrived early in the morning on Friday and was scheduled to depart later
Last night in Britain, Channel 4 Television’s "Dispatches" program aired its undercover investigation, "Cruises Undercover," into the hours and working conditions on Celebrity Cruises’ Eclipse cruise ship sailing out of Southampton.
The Twitter feed for "#cruisesundercover" and comments to the Channel 4 website page seems to show the general public’s disgust for the
A reader of Cruise law News in Panama brought an article in the Panamanian newspaper Prensa, entitled “MP Abre Sumario a Capitán de Crucero” to my attention this morning.
As I predicted last week, Panama has decided to proceed with a criminal investigation into the conduct of the Master of the Princess Cruises
The Rebecca Coriam Search Foundation is holding a fundraiser and rally to help raise money to continue the search and investigation into the disappearance of Disney crew member, Rebecca Coriam.
The rally is being held on July 23, 2011, from 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. at the Chester Race(2)(2).jpg)
Course Pavillion. For more information visit
Today a newspaper in the U.K., the Chester Chronicle, contains an interesting article "Family Demand Answers as Investigation into Chester Disney Cruise Ship Worker Continues." Although the article is a bit of a rehash of events since last week about the disappearance of youth counselor Rebecca Coriam from Disney Cruise Line’s Wonder cruise ship, the newspaper reports that:
" … cousin
Michael and Ann Coriam returned to the U.K. with their younger daughter’s belongings but no answers regarding the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. Sky News released a video today of the Coriam family’s interview with the media in Los Angeles before their return home.
Credit: Sky News via The Sun Newspaper
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The disappearance of a youth counselor from the Disney Wonder cruise ship this week raises the issue of who is responsible for conducting investigations when crew members disappear at sea.
Disney released the following statement to us yesterday:
"The Mexican Navy has been conducting searches since Tuesday, and we immediately contacted the FBI and the
