Why Are Crimes on Cruise Ships No Longer Being Disclosed to the U.S. Public?
The Cruise Vessel Safety & Security Act (CVSSA) of 2010 requires cruise ships calling on U.S. port to report certain shipboard crimes to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The CVSSA was the...
View ArticlePassenger Indicted on Charges of Sexual Assault on Cruise Ship
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced last week that Salem Christopher Diop, age 22, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a...
View ArticleCarnival Cruise Passenger Indicted on Multiple Charges Of Sexual Abuse On...
A twenty-one year old college student was arrested last week after a grand jury indicted him on charges of assaulting a woman onboard the Carnival Legend earlier this year. The Department of Justice...
View ArticleHungarian Court Sentences Master of Viking Sigyn River Cruise Ship For...
Today, a court in Hungary sentenced the captain (master) of the Viking Sigyn river cruise ship to five years and six months in jail for his negligence in causing the sinking of a Hungarian sightseeing...
View ArticleOver Six Dozen People Sickened On Scarlet Lady
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that 73 (66 passengers and 7 crew members) on Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady cruise ship reported being ill during the cruise that ended in...
View ArticleCrew Member Overboard: AIDAPerla Delays Search For Missing Cruise Ship...
A crew member employed on the AIDA operated and Carnival Corporation owned AIDAPerla cruise ship went overboard last night / early this morning as the ship was heading from Hamburg, Germany into the...
View ArticleMiracle: Overboard Person From Symphony of the Seas Rescued at Night
Last night, a person went overboard from the Symphony of the Seas. The Royal Caribbean cruise ship was sailing off of the west coast of Spain and was at the beginning of the trans-Atlantic...
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Turning Air Pollution Into Water Pollution: Carnival Magic Dumps Scrubber...
Last night, the Carnival Magic dumped a large amount of toxic emissions residue collected from the vessel’s so called “Advanced Air Quality System” into the water in Grand Turk as it was preparing to...
View ArticleFor the Second Time in 2 Months, a Cruise Guest “Disappears” from a Carnival...
Another cruise guest has somehow disappeared from a Carnival Cruise Line ship during a Caribbean cruise. Twenty-eight year old Tyler Barnett of Houma, Louisiana was last seen on the Carnival Glory...
View ArticleCrew Member Overboard From MSC Seascape in Waters Off Puerto Rico
A crew member employed on the MSC Seascape went overboard near Puerto Rico last night around 8:00 P.M. (November 14, 2023). The United States Coast Guard (“USCG”) deployed two rescue vessels and a...
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Help Family of MSC Crew Member Lost at Sea From MSC Seascape
On November 15, 2023, we wrote about a thirty year-old crew member on the MSC Seascape who went overboard over two weeks ago while employed on the MSC cruise ship after sailing from Miami on a...
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Celebrity Cruises Youth Counselor Admits to Molesting At Least Four Children...
The Miami New Times reports today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a 35 year-old cruise ship youth counselor employed by Celebrity Cruises for sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl...
View ArticlePassenger Goes Overboard From the MSC Armonia During Transatlantic Cruise to...
An American passenger went overboard early Wednesday morning from the MSC Armonia as the cruise ship sailed from Europe to Brazil. This is the second person to go overboard from a MSC cruise ship in...
View ArticleGuest Overboard From Vision of the Seas – 400th Person Overboard in Last 23...
A forty-one year old man went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas last night according to multiple sources. It appears that the first information about the incident was posted yesterday...
View ArticlePassenger Overboard from the MSC Preziosa During New Year Cruise
A passenger went overboard from the MSC Prezoria early today after the cruise ship left the port of Santos headed to New Year’s Eve festivities in Rio de Janeiro with thousands of passengers and...
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Margaritaville at Sea Crew Member Allegedly Raped and Impregnated Passenger
A passenger aboard the Margaritaville At Sea’s Paradise cruise ship alleges that a crew member snuck into her passenger cabin and assaulted her while asleep, according to the Palm Beach Post. She is...
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Department of Transportation Finally Discloses Crimes on Cruise Ships for...
The Department of Justice finally published the number of crimes alleged on cruise ships for 2023 after failing to do so all of last year. We reported several times last year on the failure to reveal...
View ArticleFinal DOT Cruise Crime Data For 2023: Carnival Cruise Line’s Per Capita...
Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOT) finally released the fourth quarter of last year’s cruise crime data. The DOT data for the fourth quarter of 2023 reveals that fleet-wide for all cruise lines...
View ArticleTwo Guests Aboard the Norwegian Joy Busted With 112 Plastic Baggies of Pot
Thrillist recently published an article about two passengers arrested on the Norwegian Joy with 112 plastic baggies of pot, totaling approximately 160 pounds, at the beginning of a cruise from Miami to...
View ArticleCrew Member on Disney Dream Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
A forty-nine year old crew member, employed by Disney Cruise Line, was arrested at Port Everglades after he disembarked from a Disney cruise ship last week, according to multiple news outlets. Acting...
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