A proverbial “rogue wave” struck the Vision of the Seas cruise ship a week ago, on September 20th 2025, as the Royal Caribbean ship returned to Baltimore from Bermuda. The incident caused the cruise ship to rock sharply, sending dishes and glassware tumbling across dining rooms and bars. A viral TikTok video of the incident
Last week, a cruise passenger on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship (some sources identify as the Norwegian Bliss) faced the indignity of becoming stuck in a water slide overhanging the water. The incident was captured on video, and then posted on TikTok. The short video clip shows the woman lying unceremoniously on her back
Passengers on Quark Expeditions’ Ocean Explorer ship heading back from Antarctica experienced a harrowing journey through the turbulent Drake Passage, where the expedition cruise ship hit waves as high as 30 to 40 feet. Passengers described the 48 hour experience as being trapped on a “never-ending roller coaster at sea.”
One passenger, travel blogger Lesley
A Royal Caribbean stateroom attendant on the Symphony of the Seas was sentenced by a federal court judge to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography.
Arvin Joseph Mirasol, age 34, a citizen of the Philippines, was sentenced in Miami federal court yesterday.
On Friday, March 22, 2024, an explosion in the engine room of Holland America Line’s (HAL) cruise ship resulted in the release of steam which led to the death of two crew members. The catastrophic explosion, combined with a series of mistakes in responding to the accident, caused the deaths of two HAL employees, including
The cruise passenger, Jeremy Froias, arrested by the FBI for installing a secret WiFi camera in the unisex public bathroom on the top deck of the Harmony of the Seas last week was released by a federal judge in San Juan Tuesday morning after his wife posted a $25,000 bond.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a cruise passenger last week after it was discovered that he installed a secret camera in a public bathroom on a cruise ship sailing from Miami on a cruise to the Caribbean.
An affidavit from a FBI agent verified that on April 29th, Jeremy Froias boarded the Royal
An Instagram post effectively raises the question whether cruise lines inform other companies when they terminate the employment of a crew member for misconduct. Many crew members work for a variety of cruise employers over the years. It is not uncommon for a ship employee to work for just a few years for say, Carnival
Atlantis Events advertises its upcoming “Largest Gay Cruise in History” aboard the “incredible Harmony of the Seas” as the “most outrageously fun cruise Atlantis has ever created! . . . a star-studded festival of pure fun and excitement unlike anything you’ve ever imagined.” Scheduled for February 4th to 12th, the cruise promises “8 fabulous
This morning a reader of this blog sent me this TicTok video of the Harmony of the Seas.
The text to the video translated states:
“The pool on the Harmony of the Seas cruise ship overflowed some 9 stories below after a wave hit the ship. Fortunately there were no injuries and after
On December 1, 2022, a lifeboat from Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas detached from its davits and fell aft-first into the water.
Captain Francesco Suma explained that the ship’s number 12 lifeboat, on the port side of the vessel, “hit the deck of the cruise ship, before falling over the side and into
Another out-of-control brawl recently broke out on a Carnival Cruise Line ship. The Miami Herald reported on the large fracus which took place on the Carnival Sunrise on September 9th. Included in the article, titled A massive fight broke out on a Carnival cruise ship. Cellphone cameras caught it all, was video featured on
A reader just sent me a YouTube video by cruise vloggers Dee and Jay who operate the popular ParoDeeJay YouTube page. Dee and Jay went on a cruise on the Carnival Mardi Gras last week and Dee began experiencing symptoms (which she described as a tickly throat, fever and an “icky feeling”). She was given
A massive fiery explosision near a waterfront, industrial section of Beirut, Lebanon killed over 70 people and wounded around 4,000 earlier today. A video (below) of the blast, which was broadcast around the world, showed a large fire with smaller explosions followed by a horrific explosion which reportedly destroyed buildings far from the blast site.
Two brawls reportedly broke out on NCL’s Norwegian Encore earlier this week, with one fight captured by a cruise passenger, identified as Robert Steele, who posted the melee’ on his Facebook page.
He also posted the following comments with the video: “On 34th cruise and first one with a major security incident. NCL Encore
Late Thursday night, a brawl erupted on a MSC cruise ship which had been denied permission to dock in several Caribbean ports this week over fears of coronavirus, according to several news outlets.
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands blocked the MSC Meraviglia from docking when the ship called on Ocho Rios, Jamaica and later when
A man reportedly went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas last night, according to a passenger on the cruise ship. His twitter account contains a graphic reference to the recovery of the overboard man’s body by a rescue boat. The passenger states that the person apparently went overboard around 3:00 a.m. last night,
A week ago we posted an article which showed the Carnival Victory belching thick black smoke into the air while it was still moored at the Princess George wharf in Nassau.
Carnival was also recently caught illegally burning heavy fuel oil in protected areas on 19 occasions, according to the Miami Herald. The Herald
