A lifeguard aboard the MSC World America was arrested at PortMiami after authorities accused him of unlawful sexual activity with a 17-year-old passenger during a Caribbean cruise.
Six passengers aboard the MSC Divina face charges after allegedly accessing the ship’s public-address system and broadcasting false emergency announcements during a voyage from Turkey to Italy.
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A second man was arrested for the death of a 60-year-old British man on the MSC Virtousa during its May 3rd–5th voyage. The man was identified as a 56-year-old from Richmond, London. The man’s name was not released by authorities. The first man arrested was a 57-year-old man from Exeter. Both men
British police arrested one man, 57 years old, for the suspected murder of a 60-year-old man aboard the MSC Virtuosa. The MSC Virtuoso was on a two-day cruise sailing from Southampton, England.
The cruise was just two hours into its voyage when the incident took place. The cruise continued its scheduled voyage after the incident.
An adult cruise passenger, identified as Yorkiss Yazbek Montalvo Ramos, age 35, of Reynosa, Mexico, was arrested last weekend on a charge of lewd and lascivious touching of a minor after he grabbed a 17-year-old male’s penis while they were onboard the MSC Seascape
A crew member reportedly went overboard from the MSC Musica sailing from Italy last Monday evening, according to the popular Cruise Radio fan page which asserts that the unidentified man “jumped.” The MSC ship was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea after departing from the
Early yesterday morning, a cruise passenger went overboard from the MSC Euribia while the cruise ship was sailing in the Sognefjord fjord between Lavik and Oppedal in Norway.
The Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende reports that a passenger “in his late 50’s,” who was traveling with his
Three French men who boarded the MSC Seaside last week allegedly gang-raped a 19-year-old Italian student who was on the cruise as part of a school trip, according to several newspapers which reported the crime.
Last Friday, the men boarded the MSC cruise ship vessel in Marseilles
A twenty-three (23) year-old man from Scotland went overboard from the MSC Euribia last week. We first heard of the incident via an inquiry on Facebook asking for information about a young man missing from the MSC ship.
We subsequently learned that the full name of the
A passenger went overboard from the MSC Prezoria early today after the cruise ship left the port of Santos headed to New Year’s Eve festivities in Rio de Janeiro with thousands of passengers and artists, according to several publications in Brazil.
Few factual details
An American passenger went overboard early Wednesday morning from the MSC Armonia as the cruise ship sailed from Europe to Brazil. This is the second person to go overboard from a MSC cruise ship in the last month following the disappearance of crew member Vishnu Cheelam from the MSC Seascape
On November 15, 2023, we wrote about a thirty year-old crew member on the MSC Seascape who went overboard over two weeks ago while employed on the MSC cruise ship after sailing from Miami on a Caribbean cruise. The United States Coast Guard deployed two rescue vessels
A crew member employed on the MSC Seascape went overboard near Puerto Rico last night around 8:00 P.M. (November 14, 2023). The United States Coast Guard (“USCG”) deployed two rescue vessels and a helicopter to search for the overboard employee.
NBC Miami reported that the
It has been a month since the public learned that the fire-resistant panels used during the construction of the new Explora I cruise ship, owned by MSC Cruises and operated by Europa Journeys, failed safety certification. The Financial Times (“FT”), which broke the story, reported that a total
The marine insurers for cruise ships which may have the faulty fire-resistant Paroc panels are demanding transparency that cruise lines / ship owners disclose which vessels contain the faulty panels, according to Lloyd’s List. The London-based news website for the shipping industry recently published two articles
MSC Cruises and Explora Journeys, the owner and operator of the new luxury cruise ship Explorer I, announced the delivery of the ship with great fanfare last week. During the media blitz and hype surrounding the delivery of the new cruise ship on July 20th
The Financial Times article published last week titled Luxury Cruise Liner’s Launch Delayed as Dozens of Ships Face Potential Safety Hazard raised the issue that as many as forty-five (45) cruise ships may be equipped with faulty fire-resistant panels manufactured by Paroc. This raises important issue
Cruise trade organization, Cruise Line International (CLIA), and the parent company of Explora Journeys, MSC Cruises, are rushing to try and minimize the fallout of The Financial Times’ article that the Paroc fire-resistant panels used during the construction of the Explora I failed fire
