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91 Cruise Passengers Died Between 2014 and 2017?

According to a recent article on CruiseCritic.com: When a Passenger Dies at Sea, What You Need to Know "some 91 people have died on cruise ships that arrived in Fort Lauderdale between 2014 and 2017." This information was gathered from the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, which is where any...

Victory Cruises Plans Stops in the Great Lakes

Miami based Victory Cruise Lines will travel north with smaller boats, visiting smaller cities. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "With the cruising industry booming across the globe, officials in Duluth are betting that someday soon their ships will come in, too. In hopes of establishing the Lake Superior port city...

Royal Caribbean To Ban Emotional Support Animals From All Cruises

Marketwatch.com reports: "Royal Caribbean International, the world’s second largest cruise line by number of passengers, will no longer allow travelers to bring their emotional support animals with them aboard its ships, effective immediately, a cruise industry blog first reported Tuesday. If passengers made reservations to sail with emotional support animals...

Watch as Coast Guard Medevacs Sick Royal Caribbean Passenger Off Boat

The video, as posted by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, shows the U.S. Coast Guard medevacing a passenger. The man was taken from the ship on July 14 while the Royal Caribbean ship, Adventure of the Seas, was cruising off the coast of Charleston, S.C. Apparently the man was...