The MSC Armonia crashed into the dock in Roatan, Honduras today, according to videos which were posted on Youtube. The MSC cruise ship is shown coming into the port at a higher than normal rate of speed. In addition to the vesel damage, there was significant damage to the pier.
There are several videos of
A MSC crew member who stayed in Grand Cayman last month, when her cruise ship left port, was sentenced to three months in prison for illegally remaining on the island.
As we previously reported, 34 year old Yusmaidys Ortiz Perez, employed as a bartender on the MSC Opera, was reported by MSC to the
On March 27, 2018, MSC Cruises reported to the police in the Cayman Islands that a crew member was missing after she failed to re-board the MSC Opera cruise ship before its departure from George Town. We mentioned the incident on March 28th, after the popular Crew Center reported the incident.
According to the
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
The Brazilian television network Globo reports that a DNA test has confirmed that the body of the person found off the coast of Italy on July 2nd is that of the crew member Simone Scheuer Sousa who disappeared from the MSC Musica.
The Brazilian crew member disappeared under suspicious circumstances from the MSC cruise ship between
The German newspaper, Bild, recently published a blockbuster article tilted Child Molester on Dream Boat which reports that MSC Cruises rehired a crew member who had been accused of sexually molesting a ten year old child. MSC is accused of flying the crew member back to India rather than turning him over to law enforcement.
A week ago, we reported on the disappearance of a crew member from the MSC Musica on June 18, 2017 after the cruise ship left the port of Venice heading to Brindisi, Italy.
The crew member is from Brazil, named Simone Souza Scheuer.
Today, the Italian newspaper Venezia Today reports that a murder investigation was opened
A crew member disappeared from the MSC Musica last night according to crew members on the MSC cruise ship and Italian newspapers.
Several crew members reported that a Brazilian woman failed to appear for work earlier today.
The Musica docked outside of the Italian port of Brindisi later this afternoon and the crew member was
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Earlier today, I mentioned the recent disappearance of a young Chinese woman from the MSC Magnifica.
It appears that she may have been a murder victim, according to the police in Italy who are investigating the case.
If this is true, this is hardly the first time that a cruise passenger has been killed at
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Numerous newspapers are reporting that a woman cruising with her husband aboard the MSC Magnifica with their two young children (ages 4 and 6) on a Mediterranean cruise, starting in Civitavecchia, Italy, disappeared last week. The woman has been identified as Xing Lei Li. Her husband has been identified as Daniel Belling.
Italian police arrested the
A passenger who disappeared from the MSC Divina yesterday marks the first person to disappear from a cruise ship in 2017.
As usual, there are no facts released by the cruise line which indicates exactly when, or why, or where, or how the person went overboard.
Based on information released by MSC, the U.S. Coast
The U.S. Coast Guard reports that it is searching for a passenger, from the MSC Divina cruise ship, who is suspected of going overboard early this morning in waters north of Puerto Rico.
According to the Coast Guard, a French citizen, Jeon Pierre Knorr, age 74, reportedly was "last seen by his wife at approximately
A lawsuit filed suit last week against MSC Cruises (USA) Inc., and MSC Crociere SA, alleges that a MSC crew member, identified as Rudy Samuel Santos Hernandez, sexually assaulted and battered a 12-year-old child on the MSC cruise ship.
According to the Florida Record, which reports on filing in the U.S. District Court for the
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According to the Italian newspaper Gazzettino, this past weekend there was "panic" onboard the MSC Magnifica cruise ship docked in Venice after a security guard inadvertently fired a gun while passengers were boarding the ship.
The facts are a bit sketchy. The newspaper says that a security guard left a handgun in a pouch
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On the recent #WorldOceansDay which trended on Twitter this week, the cruise industry’s trade organization, the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA), and CLIA travel agents tweeted photos of pristine aqua-colored waters and a beautiful healthy reef in what appears to be an idyllic location somewhere in the Pacific.
They posted tweets claiming to be
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A newspaper in Dominica reports that an excursion bus taking passengers from a MSC cruise ship to a tourist attraction crashed today in Dominica.
An infant reportedly died in the accident, according to the online newspaper in Dominica.
The bus was heading on an excursion to Trafalgar Falls.
The newspaper says that five people have been
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A Greek newspaper is reporting that the MSC Fantasia has been subjected to a search for explosives today after calling on Haifa.
The MSC cruise ship arrived today in the Bay of Souda near Chania in Crete. A Greek newspaper in Athens "To Vima" reports that suspicious passengers or explosives may be on board the
The Port Authority of Genoa is engaged in the research of a 75 year old woman who disappeared last night from the MSC Opera arriving from Civitavecchia to the port of Genoa.
An Italian newspaper says that the passenger was not aboard the MSC cruise ship when it arrived in Genoa.
Searches are under
