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U.S. Issues Another Crime Warning for Nassau, Bahamas: Fourth Advisory this Year It's Murderous in the Bahamas: Homicides Expected to Exceed 2013 Rate Another Crime Report Rocks Nassau

Caribbean Islands

Stock Awards During a Deadly Pandemic? (Part II) NCL's CEO Frank Del Rio Rakes in $36,400,000 in 2020 While Crew Members Struggle Carnival Cruise Line, Not Jamaica or the Cayman Islands, Cancels Cruises to Those Islands U.S. and Bahamas Battle Over Crime Statistics

carnival

Passenger Reported Overboard From P&O Cruises Australia's Pacific Adventure

Collisions

Hungarian Court Sentences Master of Viking Sigyn River Cruise Ship For Negligence in Collision Which Killed 27 Tourists in 2019 Viking Kvasir Collides with Ship On the Rhine River Near Wesel, Germany Passengers Injured as Viking Hermod Involved in Collision on Rhine River

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Crew Member Rights

Two Crew Members Killed in Engine Room Accident on Holland America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise Ship Crew Member on Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas Ends His Life Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises Refuse to Cancel Cruises to Russia

Crew News

Lifeboat Breaks Free From Grandeur of the Seas RCCL to Hire 30,000 Filipino Crew Members Over Next Five Years Quality of Crew Food on Queen Elizabeth? Depends Who's Coming to Dinner

Crime

Cruise Passenger on Norwegian Getaway Indicted on Felony Criminal Charges For Strangling and Beating Girlfriend DOT First Quarter Cruise-Crime Statistics: Carnival Cruise Line Ships Remain the Most Violent Ships at Sea Carnival Cruise Passenger Viciously Beaten and Cut in the Face With Bar Glass

Cruelty & Murder of Animals

Cruise Ship Passengers Watch Another Barbaric Whale Slaughter in the Bloody Faroe Islands HAL's Eurodam Ignores Calls to Reduce Speed While Approaching Whales Crew Member Injured, Polar Bear Killed During Cruise Excursion

Cruise Booze

Brawl Breaks Out on Norwegian Encore It's Always Bigger in Texas: Cruise Passengers Taxed on Cruise Booze Cruise Booze: Is a Passenger's Drinking Problem Just His Own?

Cruise Pollution

Princess Cruises Causes Uproar with Balloon Release Shameless Cruise Industry Touts It's Environmental Practices Brazil Fines MSC Cruises R$2,505,000 for Dumping Bags of Garbage

Cyber Attacks

109 COVID-19 Infected Crew Members on the Jewel of the Seas AIDA Cruise Ships Under Cyber Attack - Are Costa Ships Also Affected?

Disappearances

Passenger Disappears From Ruby Princess Cruise Ship Passenger Reported Overboard From Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas Passenger Goes Overboard From Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas

Disclaimer

Fifty Infected Crew Members on Carnival Vista

Disease

CDC: 170 Sickened on Radiance of the Seas Center for Disease Control: 75 People Sickened on P&O's Arcadia Silver Nova Experiences Gastrointestinal Outbreak as the Silversea Cruises' Luxury Cruise Ship Sails to Fort Lauderdale

Drownings

Boy Drowns on Genting Dream Passenger Drowns on Caribbean Princess NCL to Finally Hire Lifeguards

Drugs

Two Guests Aboard the Norwegian Joy Busted With 112 Plastic Baggies of Pot Atlantis Events' New Social Media Policy Misses the Mark Six Drug-Smuggling Passengers Arrested in Santos, Brazil Preparing to Board Costa Diadema with 30 Kilos of Cocaine

Excursions

Volcano on New Zealand's White Island Erupts During Royal Caribbean Excursion Passengers from the Carnival Ecstasy Injured in Excursion Bus Crash in the Bahamas Princess Cruises Passengers Involved in Crash of Seaplanes During Excursion

Executives

Cruise Executives Get Richer While the Cruise Industry Continues to Struggle Nepotism and Employee Firings Plague Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Norwegian Cruise Line Increases Service Fees Again - But Will NCL's Crew Remain Underpaid While CEO Del Rio Continues to be Paid an Average of $25,000,000 a Year?

Fires

Fire Aboard Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas in Mexico Names of Cruise Ships With Paroc Fire-Resistant Products Insurers of Dozens of Cruise Ships With Potentially Dangerous Fire Panels Seek Transparency: "We Demand Names of All Ships Equipped With Paroc Panels"

Firm News

Happy New Year! And Thanks for Reading!Cruise Law News Named One of the Best Law Blogs to Follow An Unexpected Blog Award

Flags of Convenience

A Race to the Bottom? Cruise Lines Seek Reduction of Harbor Pilot's Compensation "Vacations in No Man's Sea," By Univision & Columbia Journalism School Foreign-Flagged Cruise Industry Spends Millions of Dollars Lobbying U.S. Congress

Fraud

Miami Herald: Cruise Line "Secretly Funded a Disinformation Campaign" to Try and Defeat Recent Key West Referendum Royal Seas Cruises Refuses Refund After Customer's Wife Dies Carnival Hikes Pre-Paid Gratuities But Will Passengers Secretly Remove Tips?

Gratuities

Norwegian Cruise Line Increases Service Fees Again - But Will NCL's Crew Remain Underpaid While CEO Del Rio Continues to be Paid an Average of $25,000,000 a Year?Back to "Nickel and Diming" Again: Norwegian Cruise Line Jacks Up Gratuities Carnival Cruise Line Pockets Portion of Increased Drink Gratuities

Groundings

NCL's Norwegian Escape Runs Aground Near Dominican Republic HAL's Volendam Temporarily Grounded in Brazilian Amazon River Celebrity Xpedition Runs Aground in the Galápagos, Passengers Evacuated

Introduction

CruiseLaw Launches Cruise Blog "CruiseLaw News"

Lawsuits

Crystal Cruises Avoids Port of Miami to Evade Seizure Order Cruise Ship Lawsuits: What the Cruise Lines Don't Want You to Know

Legal

Cruise Law News Named One of the Best Law Blogs to Follow Carnival Triumph Passengers Happy to Be Home More Reefer Madness - Bermuda's Screwed Up Sense of Priorities

Legionnaires' Disease

Lawsuit: Passenger Contracts Legionnaires' Disease on Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas Salt into the Wound: Royal Caribbean Denies Legionnaires Disease Came from Liberty of the Seas Passenger Paid Settlement in Legionnaires' Disease Cruise Case

Lifeboat

Lifeboat Falls From Quantum of the Seas - Fortunately No Injuries

Links

Jamie Barnett's "Living Through The Loss"

Lobbying

Foreign-Flagged Cruise Industry Spends Millions of Dollars Lobbying U.S. Congress Royal Caribbean Uses Illegal Lobbyist to Conceal Cruise Fares Cruise Line International Association Gobbles Up Smaller Cruise Associations

Maritime Death

Over Six Dozen People Sickened On Scarlet Lady U.S. Passenger on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas Dies in Roatan FBI Investigates Suspicious Death Of Passenger Aboard Carnival Sunshine

Medical Malpractice

German Court Sentences Bogus Doctor to Three Years in Jail Cruise Ship Passengers Beware: Don't Go to Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau Witnesses to Gem Drowning: "NCL Screwed Up"

Molestation

MSC Cruises Reportedly Rehires Cabin Attendant Who Molested 10 Year Old Boy Recent Lewd and Lascivious Conduct on HAL Cruise Line Show Shortcomings of CVSSA Crime Reporting Crew Member Allegedly Molests Child in Livorno, Italy.

Norovirus

More Passengers and Crew Members Sickened by Gastrointestinal Outbreak on the Sapphire Princess Cruise Ship Over Six Dozen People Sickened On Scarlet Lady Number of Guests and Crew Infected During Gastrointestinal Outbreak on Ruby Princess Increases to Over 300: "Norovirus the Likely Cause"

Passenger Rights

Another Brawl Breaks Out on the Carnival Paradise Court of Appeal Sends Wrongful Death Case of Toddler Who Was Dropped from a Window on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas Back to Trial Court Disgraced Former Cyber Security Officer for City of Kissimmee Released On $25,000 Bond

Personal Stuff

Thank You President Obama!New Orleans Jazz Fest 2016 Merry Christmas & Season's Greetings from Cruise Law

Pirate Attacks

Pirates Beware: Cruise Line Purchases Acoustic Hailing Device Did Somali Pirates Chase Cruise Ship?IMO Passes the Buck to Flag States Regarding Armed Guards on Cruise Ships

Pollution

Virgin Voyages' Resilient Lady Smokes Out Hobart: Are You Going to Believe Your Lying Eyes?Turning Air Pollution Into Water Pollution: Carnival Magic Dumps Scrubber Sludge in Grand Turk Waters Health Hazard! Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas Belches Soot

Pornography

Miami-Dade Police Arrest Cruise Passenger at PortMiami for Possession of Child Pornography Crew Member Arrested for Child Pornography - 17th Cruise Ship Employee Arrested in Last Seven Months Royal Caribbean Room Steward Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Producing Child Pornography With Spy Camera on Symphony of the Seas

Power Loss

Westerdam Experiences Azipod Failure During Alaskan Cruise Cruise and Maritime Voyages' Vasco da Gama Loses Power Off Coast of Australia Norwegian Star Suffers Propulsion Problems

Public Relations

This "Dumpster Fire" of a Cruise Line Just Showed Its True Colors: No Refund for Cruise Guests on Carnival Freedom Following Fire Carnival Corporation Picked As One of the Top 20 Most Challenged Brands in 2019 Crew Members Use Guest Cabin for Sex?

Rape

Miami Jury Returns $10,200,000 Verdict Against Carnival Cruise Line for Passenger Raped on the Carnival Miracle Celebrity Crew Member's "Brazen Rape of Colleague"Crew Member Indicted for Cruise Ship Sexual Abuse

Rescue

Passenger Overboard From the MSC World Europa - Fifth Person Overboard From a MSC Cruise Ship in the Last Three Months Miracle: Overboard Person From Symphony of the Seas Rescued at Night Coast Guard Ends Search for Missing Guest From Carnival Magic As Delay Caused By No MOB System Caused Massive Search Of Over 5,000 Square Miles

Rough Weather

Carnival Sunshine Hit By Rough Weather Returning to Charleston NoGrandiNavi: Venice Endures Another Out-of-Control Cruise Ship Norwegian Escape Rocked By High Winds

RoundUp

Pod Problems: Carnival Legend Limps Back to Tampa Eleven Months after Costa Concordia, Cruise Lines Still Struggling to Sell Cruises Is Carnival the Pretty Girl & Mobile the Nerd?

Services

Cruise Law Services for Passengers and Crew Members

Sexual Assault

Trial Court Awards Over $2,000,000 in Pre-Judgment Interest After Jury Awards $10,000,000 to Victim Raped on Carnival Miracle Passenger on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas Arrested on Charges of Raping 20 Year Old Woman 2Q CVSSA Crime Data: Carnival Cruise Line Again Leads All Cruise Lines With The Most Sexual Assaults & Rapes

Sexual Assault of Minors

Adult Passenger Arrested For Sexually Assaulting Minor on MSC Seascape Miami-Dade Police Arrest Passenger on Charges He Molested 13 Year-Old Girl on Carnival Conquest Carnival Cruise Lines: Watch Your Kids!

Sinking

Coast Guard Grounds Majesty of the Seas for Life Vest Violation Excursion Vessel in Greenland Sinks, 23 Cruise Passengers Rescued Indonesian Ferry Sinks, No Casualties

Social Media

MSC Cruises Ship Employee Caught Filming Women in Bathroom Near Kid's Club: What Steps, If Any, Did MSC Take to Make Certain Former Crew Member Is Not Employed on Other Cruise Ships?Ten Years of Cruise Law News The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj Takes a Look at the Cruise Industry

Special Needs

Families of Children With Autism File Suit Against Royal Caribbean Celebrity Cruises and Disabled Passenger Exchange Threats - Are Celebrity's Cruise Ships ADA Compliant?Celebrity Cruises Abandons Disabled Passenger in Guadeloupe

Taxes

What the Cruise Industry Has to Learn From My Cousins Back in Arkansas Cruise Industry Resists "Day-Tripper" Taxes on Cruise Ship Passengers FEMA Pays Exorbitant Price for Charter of Carnival Fascination After Hurricane Maria

Technology

Cruise Law Meets ChatGPT

Terrorism

Crystal Cruises Risked Crew Member Lives By Sailing Crystal Symphony Through Strait of Bab el-Mandeb into the Red Sea "Jackal Stone:" U.S. and Greek Special Forces Train to Respond to ISIS Hijacking of Cruise Ship Barb Wire and Water Cannons at Sea

Twitter

Cruise Law's Six Year Anniversary on Twitter Cruise Law News Facebook Page Reaches 100,000 "Likes"Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas: "Full Speed Ahead?"

Uncategorized

Two Carnival Cruise Crew Members Arrested for Child Pornography: Fifteen Cruise Ship Employees Arrested in Last Six Months Another Crew Member on Disney Dream Arrested for Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material Silver Nova Experiences Gastrointestinal Outbreak as the Silversea Cruises' Luxury Cruise Ship Sails to Fort Lauderdale

Weird Cruise News

Breaking News: Carnival Incorporates in the U.S. & Subjects Itself to U.S. Tax, Labor, Wage, Safety & Environmental Regulations Waterfall of the Seas?Weird Cruise News: Celebrity Cruise Captain Recalls UFO "Cruising" Over Ship

Worst Cruise Line in the World

CCL Stock Plummets to Barely Above $7.00 As Carnival Corporation Reports Tenth Consecutive Quarterly Loss NCL Raises Gratuities Again: The Greedy Gets Greedier Norwegian Pearl Injured Guest: NCL "Just Iced Us Out"