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An Oct. 17 posting on Crew-Center.com reports, "a crew member working onboard Celebrity Reflection went overboard last night (Oct. 16) while the cruise ship was sailing from Mykonos to Rhodes, Greece." The overboard incident was also reported by Cruise Law News. Initial reports seem to have been shared on Twitter...
KGTV in San Diego reports in a Oct. 17 article that, "a Seattle man injured in an ATV accident in Mexico has died in a San Diego hospital, according to his family." The man, Chad Carrico, rented ATV's with friends while his cruise ship made a stop in Ensenada, Mexico....
Navy helicopter rescues Canadian passenger from cruise ship An 83 year old passenger was taken from the Princess Cruises Emerald Princess after showing signs of a possible stroke. The US Coast Guard was called after the ship's medical team determined that the passenger needed advanced medical services. The airlift took...
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...