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A recent injury aboard the Viking Sun cruise ship lead to the involvement of the Chilean Navy. On Sunday, February 10, a 66 year old female passenger identified as Sheila Eaton suffered a serious head injury. According to a Maritime Herald report, medical aid was provided on the boat. When...
No one wants to feel queasy on their cruise ship vacation. And certainly, no passenger wants to experience vomiting, diarrhea and severe stomach cramps after paying for passage on a cruise ship to the Bahamas or Gulf of Mexico. Often, this happens because of a norovirus outbreak or other viral...
Lila "Lisette" Kohn Gale, a 65 year old Highland Park, Illinois resident has filed a federal lawsuit against Holland America Cruise Line, claiming negligence and incompetence on the part of the cruise line. Gales was traveling from Fort Lauderdale to the Panama Canal in March of 2018 when she lost...
Attorneys Andrew Waks and Jennifer Thompson obtained a favorable verdict for a 61 year old Michigan woman who tripped and fell over a threshold in a ship's doorway while on a 2 day cruise to Bimini. Because of the fall, the passenger fractured her wrist and had to undergo surgery...
On Sunday, January 27, an 80 year old woman was medevac'd from the Carnival Ecstasy cruise ship as it was 55 miles East of Savannah Georgia. According to the Savannah Morning News, "a passenger had suffered a head injury after falling and was in need of medical attention." Watchstanders at...
Cruise Ship Life and other outlets are reporting that a passenger jumped from the Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas ship as the vessel was in the Nassau, Bahamas port.
A federal lawsuit was filed against Carnival Cruise Line as three passengers claim they were injured when the Carnival Sunshine tilted for 60 seconds as it was leaving Port Canaveral in October 2018. The tilting action caused passengers, furniture and other items not bolted down to fall to the floor....
The New Zealand Herald reports that the Celebrity Solstice avoid a small inflatable boat that was carrying four passengers. The cruise ship came slow close that one cruise passenger described the near miss by saying, "they could almost touch the ship." The incident occurred in the Tauranga Harbour on December...
Multiple news outlets report that, a 16 year old boy fell to his death while trying to access his eighth floor stateroom from the balcony of an adjacent room. The accident occurred Jan. 11 aboard Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas. Reports say Laurent Mercer, the victim, did not have...
While the number varies depending on which news article you read, hundreds of passengers were apparently stricken with the norovirus bug, making their vacation aboard Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas a "not-enjoyable" trip. ABC News reported, Guest and crew members began getting sick when the ship departed the Port...