Key West newspaper The Citizen reports that a passenger from a cruise ship sailing to Key West yesterday has disappeared from the ship.
The newspaper writes that “the Coast Guard is continuing to search for a man who fell off a Celebrity cruise ship bound for Key West. The 66-year-old man was last spotted by
The bizarre story of the overboard Royal Caribbean passenger being rescued by the Disney Magic near Cozumel is still trending.
Everyone who’s cruised or is thinking of cruising has by now read at least one story about the 22 year-old passenger who fell off of the Oasis of the Seas and then was magically rescued
The Hill reports today that the most recent edition of the Federal Register contains new rules for investigating crimes on cruise ships.
The Hill says that cruise ships face "new security protocols, such as informing passengers about crime aboard the ship, installing systems to detect if someone falls overboard, and crime scene preservation and evidence gathering
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
A passenger commented on Cruise Critic this morning that the Master of the Royal Princess cruise ship announced that a person had been reported overboard and the ship was going to take a head count of the passengers and crew.
The cruise ship performed a partial Williamson maneuver (as shown on AIS systems) and
This morning I received a message from a Facebook friend that there was a search underway for a man overboard from the Pacific Pearl. The cruise ship was sailing off Newcastle, New South Wales.
But the only information I could find were a couple of posting on the Cruise Critic board.
One person said that "
A crew member disappeared from Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas earlier in the week.
We were first notified of the crew member’s disappearance from another crew member who was concerned about the incident. Today we received confirmation that a crew member went overboard from a reliable separate and independent source.
The missing crew member
I have received inquiries from passengers about a man overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Splendour of the Seas last month. The incident seems to involve a passenger who jumped into the water early one morning. He was promptly rescued. Most people are asking why hasn’t there been any news account of the incident?
One passenger provided
A couple from Cape Coral, Florida say that they are "shocked" at how ill-equipped and unprepared the Bahamas Celebration cruise ship and crew seemed during the search and rescue mission of the overboard passenger yesterday. FOX 4 / WFTX (Fort Meyers) reported on the man overboard situation via reporter @GabrielleSarann.
They send a letter
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We were notified a few minutes ago that a passenger has gone overboard from the Costa Classica cruise ship after the ship sailed from Casablanca, Morocco.
The AIS tracking shows the cruise ship searching for the passenger.
A person from the ship contacted us about the man overboard and indicated that it was a male
A newspaper in Brazil reports that a passenger went overboard on Friday February 7, 2014 from the Splendor of the Seas cruise ship while it was sailing in the waters of Uruguay.
The vessel reportedly docked later at the Port of Santos, São Paulo, on Sunday, February 9, 2014. The local police investigated the incident
ITV television broadcast this video to a nationwide audience in the U.K. yesterday about the plight of the Fearnside family who lost their son, Richard (photo left), at sea from a ferry, the Pride of Kent.
The ferry is operated by P&O Ferries. The ferry line does not have any automatic man overboard systems
Last night, ABC 20/20 aired a program about the controversy surrounding the cruise industry’s refusal to install automatic man overboard systems.
There is no question that the systems exist and can be installed. However, the cruise industry refuses to do so. (Disney says that its cruise ships have the technology). But it’s clear that Carnival
Tonight ABC’s 20/20 will take a look at the case of a cruise passenger who fell from her balcony, struck a lifeboat below her, and then plunged into the water.
Although her fall was captured on the cruise ship’s surveillance cameras, the ship sailed on. That’s because Carnival did not have an automatic man overboard
There have been 5 persons overboard in the past 3 weeks.
There will be many more this year.
None of the cruise lines involved in the overboard cases – Royal Caribbean, Holland America Line & Princess – have installed automatic man overboard systems.
So a passenger disappears at sea. "A mystery," the cruise line says. "Not
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report regarding whether the cruise industry has implemented the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act (CVSSA) of 2010.
I have pointed out that the last several man overboard cases indicate that the cruise industry refuses to install the necessary man overboard technology. It’s disgraceful that this is
Yesterday the on-line cruise community Cruise Critic published an article "Man Overboards: Questions and Answers."
We previously criticized Cruise Critic after it deleted comments from its message boards about the passenger who recently went overboard from the HAL Veendam. We have also been critical of the cruise lines for not investing in
Today’s news that a search is underway to rescue a crew member who apparently jumped from the Grand Princess cruise ship early this morning illustrates a continuing problem with the cruise industry.
A Coast Guard spokesperson said that there was a 2 hour delay between the crew members going overboard and notification to the Coast
