The last thing on a person’s mind when they depart for their dream cruise vacation is the possibility that they will become the victim of a crime while sailing the seas. However, many cruises ships are essentially floating cities, and, as such, often experience incidents of criminal activity. According to…
Almost everyone felt the sting of the financial crash of 2008, but good news: we are coming back. Recreational industries are a great marker of how strong the market is; if consumers feel the pinch they let go of the fun stuff first. It should make you breath a fresh…
Previously, statistical information regarding crimes committed on cruise ships was kept out of the public’s eye. Cruise ship companies were able to keep under wraps the many criminal offenses against passengers, in order to protect their reputations. Now, under new legislation, cruise companies are required to publish this information, therefore,…
As this blog has recently discussed, the cruise ship industry suffered several big blows over the last year from the May evacuation of Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas, due to an onboard fire, the grounding of Carnival ship Costa Concordia last January, a fire at on Carnival’s Triumph ship…
New legislation is currently before Congress in an effort to offer more protection for cruise ship passengers. The new legislation has been introduced in the wake of numerous cruise ship accidents such as mechanical failures, an increase in crimes at sea, and is part of a concerted effort to improve…
Approximately six months ago, the world was shocked when Carnival cruise ship Costa Concordia, crashed into the rocks off the coast of Giglio Island, Italy, resulting in the deaths of thirty two individuals and injuries to dozens of others. Carnival and ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, took heavy criticism for the…
Over the weekend, the cruise ship industry suffered yet another blow when the Royal Caribbean ship, Grandeur of the Seas, was crippled by an onboard fire on May 27, 2013, forcing passengers to evacuate and be diverted to the nearby Bahamas. This episode occurs in the wake of several other…
Once again, Carnival cruise line braces itself for some hard questioning and strong reaction from the public, after one of its vessels, the Carnival Triumph, wound up stranded in the Gulf of Mexico . This is the result of yet, another engine room fire, which left cruise ship passengers without…
Passengers Badly Rattled As Cruise Ships Ventured Through Superstorm Sandy As Americans continue to tune into coverage of the massive land damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, it may be inconceivable to many that cruise ship operators did not uniformly cancel Florida-based cruises that were set to sail into or near…
Carnival Corporation was dealt a heavy legal blow a few weeks ago when an appeals court reinstated a federal Florida case brought against it by the family of 15-year-old Liz Marie Perez Chaparro, a Carnival cruise ship passenger who was shot and killed during a shore excursion in the port…