Yahoo Travel just interviewed me for its article Is Your Cruise Ship Prepared for a Terrorist Attack?
There are nearly 500 comments to the article some of which are quite interesting to read.
The Yahoo article does not really touch upon the issue that cruise ships are largely unarmed. So regardless how you feel about
The New Orleans Advocate reports that a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has busted a cocaine smuggling operation where crew members smuggled cocaine from Honduras to New Orleans aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s (NCL) Norwegian Dawn cruise ship.
The drug bust took place last Sunday. On line AIS tracking sites show that the Norwegian
A jury in Tampa, Florida has returned a guilty verdict against a man who was part of a group of cruise ship employees who smuggled cocaine into Tampa from Roatan, Honduras. According to the Tampa Tribune, Desrick Gordon, age 23, faces 10 years to life in prison.
Mr. Gordon is from the country of
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Here at Cruise Law News, we try to stay on top of "everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know." Sometimes, for various reasons, we don’t hear of significant events, such as cruise ship fires.
A reader on our Facebook page brought to our attention that we missed reporting about a fire which
Passengers aboard NCL’s Norwegian Star are telling me that the ship’s azipod system has failed. The cruise ship is skipping Miami today and is heading for Tampa one day early. One passenger said that the next cruise is reportedly canceled. (The cancellation of the next cruise is not confirmed information. Please double check
Norwegian Cruise Line announced that Miami remix rap artist "Pitbull" (Armando Christian Pérez) will become the Godfather of the company’s newest cruise ship next month at the Port of Miami.
NCL cruise executives CEO Frank Del Rio and President Andy Stuart will attend the naming ceremony of the Norwegian Escape on November 9th.
Pitbull will perform
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a woman from a NCL cruise ship approximately 165 miles east of Virginia Beach today.
The Coast Guard was called for assistance after a 30-year-old woman complained of abdominal pain.
The Coast Guard helicopter crew responded to the Norwegian Breakaway and flew the woman to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation contends that cruise lines have violated Alaska air pollution regulations for the past five years.
Tradewinds, a shipping trade organization, and the Juneau Empire report that Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruises disclosed in recent SEC earnings reports that they violated Alaskan Marine Vessel Visible Emission Standards.
Defense Video and Imagery Distribution Services reports that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a passenger from a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) cruise ship near Turks and Caicos yesterday morning.
A Coast Guard crew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Clearwater, Florida, operating out of Great Inagua, Bahamas, flew to the NCL ship approximately 84 miles
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Cape Cod Today reports that the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a sick passenger from a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) cruise ship near Cape Cod yesterday evening.
The Norwegian Dawn contacted the USCG’s station in Boston around 8:30 PM and said that a 19-year-old woman suffering from appendicitis needed medical help.
A helicopter crew took off
Our firm represents a young crew member who was raped while she was unconscious aboard the Marina cruise ship operated by Oceania Cruises.
We usually do not write about cases we handle, but we are doing so only after the Oceania defense lawyers in Miami felt compelled to write an article about the case on
Several NCL crew members reported to me that a crew member aboard the Norwegian Sun went overboard early yesterday morning while the Sun was proceeding to Juneau, Alaska.
The crew member reportedly went overboard before the cruise ship reached Juneau.
The crew members was not rescued and his body was not located.
We are not
The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska is reporting that it deployed a helicopter to medevac a 63-year-old woman from the Norwegian Sun on Sunday.
The helicopter crew hoisted the sick woman and flew her to Cordova Community Medical Center.
The Master of NCL cruise ship said that the passenger was suffering from abdominal complications.
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A cruise passenger from a Norwegian Cruise Line ship went overboard yesterday, according to the CruiseJunkie website.
A passenger left the following comment on cruise expert Professor Ross Klein’s website:
"At around 8:30 PM women jumped overboard. The code was called within a few minutes the capt got on the speaker explained the situation. Said
Earlier this week, a 10 year old child drowned in a crowded swimming pool on NCL’s Norwegian Gem.
It’s the seventh time that a child has drowned, or nearly-downed, on a cruise ship in just two years. The incidents occurred on cruise ships operated by all of the major cruise lines’ ships: Carnival, Disney
A friend just notified me that the Port Bermuda cam operated by PTZtv shows that the NCL Norwegian Dawn has just hit a reef near the port.
The cruise ship reportedly launched lifeboats, although there is no indication that anyone was injured. The weather looks nice. The boats may have been checking the damage to
A young passenger, reportedly a 10-year-old girl, drowned in a swimming pool aboard NCL’s Norwegian Gem while the cruise ship was 75 miles east of Myrtle Beach yesterday afternoon.
I first learned of the incident on Twitter from CNBC’s @RyanRuggiero who tweeted "The Coast Guard is investigating a death that occurred aboard the Norwegian Gem off
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting that 60 passengers aboard the HAL Maasdam are ill with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea.
That is 5.27% of the 1,138 total passengers aboard the cruise ship.
In addition, 11 of the 578 crew members are stricken with the gastrointestinal illness.
