Carnival Crewmember Charged With Molesting Teen Ship Passenger

According to police in Florida, a Carnival Cruise crewmember was arrested August 15th for allegedly sexually abusing a teenage passenger. As reported by NBCNews.com: Yovany Suazo-Batiz, 46, a steward on the Carnival Valor, was arrested when the ship docked at Port Canaveral, east of Orlando, according to a statement from...

2 Crew Members Hurt in Cruise Ship Lifeboat Accident

According to a report by KHON2 in Hawaii yesterday (July 28, 2015) "two men were hurt while lowering a lifeboat from the ship when the lines gave way". The accident happened on Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America cruise ship which was docked in Hilo (the Big Island). Per the article...

Concerns from Injured Passengers and Crew

Our cruise injury law firm is contacted each week by both passengers and crew members who have suffered injuries. Some of these injuries are caused simply by accidents. Some are caused due to the negligence or lack of care on part of the cruise line or its employees. And, some...

Fire, Rape and Assault: Another Crazy Week for the Cruise Industry

Another interesting week has passed with the cruise line industry seeing a wide ranges of incidents across multiple cruise lines. Fire on a Royal Caribbean ship. Rape on a Celebrity Cruise. And a crew member on crew member sexual assault on another Celebrity vessel. Fire on Cruise Ship Freedom of...

MSC Cruises to Base Cruise Ship in Havana Cuba

MSC Cruises to Become First Mainstream Cruise Line to Base Cruise Ship in Havana, Cuba CruiseCritic.com reports that.... MSC Cruises will homeport MSC Opera in Havana, Cuba from the winter 2015-16 season -- the first mainstream cruise line to do so. The line will operate 16 Caribbean cruises on the...

Safe Travels During 4th of July Cruise Vacations!

We hope everyone who was (or is still) sailing during the July 4th holiday had (or is having) an enjoyable vacation. With summer holidays for kids and with many people taking vacations during this time of year, cruise ships are fully loaded when they leave their ports in Florida. In...

9 Cruise Ship Passengers Dead After Sightseeing Plane Crashes in Alaska

9 passengers from the Holland America Line cruise ship Westerdam were killed on Thursday, June 25 as the sightseeing plane they were traveling on crashed into an Alaska mountainside. View the video coverage from in Seattle. Read the full report here as well. Nine people were killed when a sightseeing...

22 Injured as Cruise Ship Hits Wall in New York’s St. Lawrence Seaway

The Associated Press reports (carried by Fox News)... Last week (June 18)... A cruise ship taking European tourists to Ontario, Canada, crashed into a wall while entering a lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway in northern New York, injuring 19 passengers and three crew members, officials said Friday. The U.S....