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The Maritime Herald reports, "French cruise company Ponant has been fined $70,000 in New Zealand after an expedition cruise with 356 passengers aboard breached its navigation permit and ran aground on protected subantarctic waters." The boat hit a submerged rock as it steered to close to the Snares Island off...
A Princess Cruises ship, the Emerald Princess, had a passenger medevac'd from the ship on October 14. The airlift took place early in the morning after medical personnel on the ship identified the older, male passenger as having symptoms of possible stroke. A Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter crew from the...
It may seem silly for an article's content to be based around "how not to fall off of a cruise ship", but Lifehacker.com's recent article How Not To Fall Off a Cruise Ship did just that. What isn't silly is that, according to research provided by the trade group Cruise...
News.com.au reports, "a talented cruise ship singer was mysteriously discovered dead inside her cabin five years ago. Now her parents are taking a dramatic step to get answers." Jackie Kastrinelis, 24 at the time of her death, was the lead singer on the Seven Seas Voyager Regent Cruise Ship when...
On Oct. 11, Cruise Law News reports that, "the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York alleged yesterday that a cruise passenger, identified in court papers as Carlos Batista Jr. of Elmhurst, New York, assaulted his girlfriend and choked her until she passed out during a...
A short video taken by a passenger on Royal Caribbean's Empress of the Seas captured Hurricane Michael's outer bands as the ship traveled near was near la Isla de Juventud, Cuba on Oct. 8 a few days before the hurricane made landfall in the Florida panhandle. Live look: @RoyalCaribbean’s #EmpressoftheSeas...
According to news reports in The Star and The Mirror, two women traveling aboard a Fred Olsen Cruise Lines ship were killed after being struck by a vehicle. The two women, were apparently stepping off a tour bus into traffic when a driver hit them and another passenger. The third...
According to KATU.com in Oregon, "A 77-year-old woman was medically evacuated from a cruise ship in Oregon waters after suffering a stroke. The U.S. Coast Guard said a crew airlifted the woman from the Grand Princess cruise ship Saturday morning about 55 miles southwest of Newport, Oregon." The incident occurred...
Earlier this month, Eric Newman of Topeka, Kansas was indicted for the second degree murder of his wife, Tamara Tucker. According to the Kansas City Star, the indictment said Newman was traveling with Tucker on board a cruise ship called the Carnival Elation on Jan. 19. Court records didn’t specify...
According to the Coast Guard website, the Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod aircrew medevaced a 78-year-old man Saturday (Sept. 22) from the cruise ship Norwegian Escape after he suffered a possible stroke 40 nautical miles south of Nantucket. The crew of the Norwegian Cruise Ship notified Coast Guard watchstanders...