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Winter Storm Diego Pounds North Carolina Virginia

Winter Storm Diego Pounds North Carolina Virginia (see video below) – North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper warned residents to ‘hunker down’ as Winter Storm Diego approached. More than 1,400 flights were canceled on Sunday. Most of [...]
Cruise Ship Deaths

Federal Cruise Ship Death With Dignity Act

Federal Cruise Ship Death With Dignity Act – How much pain is too much? When does suffering become too unbearable? When does a person’s right to die with dignity, infringe on the rights of others? Suicide, [...]
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Jail Mistake May Release Lonnie Kocontes After Cruise Ship Murder Mistrial

Jail Mistake May Release Lonnie Kocontes After Cruise Ship Murder (see video below) Mistrial – On May 26, 2006, Micki Kanesaki, went missing on a cruise with her ex-husband Lonnie Loren Kocontes aboard Island Cruises’ cruise ship Island [...]
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Havana Cuba Norwegian Sky Passengers Left High-Dry

Havana Cuba Norwegian Sky Passengers Left High-Dry – On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Norwegian Cruise Lines had changed the scheduled departure time at Havana from 5:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Passengers were notified of the [...]
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7.5 Earthquake 168km ESE of Tadine New Caledonia

7.5 Earthquake 168km ESE of Tadine New Caledonia – On Wednesday, December 5, 2018, around at 15:18 local time, an earthquake (see video below) measured at a magnitude 7.5 struck just east of New Caledonia at [...]

Lawsuit Filed Against Norwegian Cruise Line After Wheelchair Injures Other Passenger

February 27, 2018

A lawsuit filed on May, 30, 2017 against Norwegian Cruise Line is alleging accidental death after passenger Hortensia Santos, 90, who was cruising near Costa Maya, Mexico (see video below) aboard the Norwegian Getaway in the dining room [...]
Disney Fantasy – Peter Mizvioch Update

September 22, 2015
Baby Doe Murder-Judge Gives 1 Day Sentence

October 22, 2015

Cruise Laws – Most Recent Cruise Line Lawsuits

August 7, 2015

#Cruise Laws: Peak behind the scenes. Cruise #Laws 24/7 real time court case filings for cruise industry federal lawsuits. Also, latest cruise industry financial news as it happens. This feed is not available on Sundays.
South Korean Family Sues Norwegian Cruise Line Over USVI Snorkeling Death

May 12, 2017
Carnival Corp Lifetime Ban Over Cruise Ship Artwork Auction Lawsuit

March 21, 2017

Miami No Longer The Busiest Cruise Ship Port

July 27, 2014

Cozumel View: More #cruises #ship #passengers come to #Cozumel, #Mexico than #Miami, #Florida. Cruise Ship #excursions give boom to small, safe #Riviera #Maya #beaches. Cozumel, Mexico has taken the top honor of becoming the busiest cruise ship […]

Cruises From New Orleans Wide Variety Cruise Ship Choices

November 9, 2018

Cruises From New Orleans Wide Variety Cruise Ship Choices – In the Gulf of Mexic0 region of the United States, for years, people had a choice of one Carnival ship out of Mobile, Alabama and two […]

Cruise Ship Summer Call Larsen Bay Alaska Population 87

Cruise Ship Summer Call Vital For Larsen Bay Alaska 87 Residents

March 23, 2018

Silversea Cruises ship Silver Explorer, will call this summer on Thursday, August 23, 2018 to the tiny village of Larsen Bay (see video playlist below) on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Larsen Bay, population 87 is located in […]

Carnival Cruise Lines reports video of passenger deliberately climbing over railing into the sea

March 12, 2015

Carnival Cruise Lines has said they have security camera video of Cameron Smook, 21, from Virginia, deliberately climbing over the railing and falling into the sea. Cameron Smook, 21, from Virginia, went missing aboard Carnival Cruise Line’s […]

Rajkumar Agarwal Cruise Ship Overboard Update

October 12, 2015

Shocking Claim – You decide if “severe fight” with high ranking cruise ship officer “wearing white” lead to affluent cruise passenger overboard foul play as family member suggests. While we get cases of people overboard nearly every month, sometimes several times in the […]

Rescue Me Balloon – Cruise Ship Missing

June 23, 2015

Kickstarter Rescue Me Balloon raised $36,000. Could save many #cruise ship missing. Kickstarter project, Rescue Me Balloon raised $36,000. Could save many #cruise ship missing. Rescue Me Balloon Signal Device, an SOS device which could save many […]

Cruise Ship Collision – 30 Injured

June 19, 2015

#Cruise Ship Sinking: Saint Laurent collides in St. Lawrence locks, takes on water. Injured evacuated. International Shipping Partners Saint Laurent Collided with the Eisenhower Lock on the St. Lawrence River. The Michigan Great Lakes Cruise, Saint Laurent […]

Two Cruise Ship Crew Members Overboard

July 29, 2015

Norwegian Cruise Line Pride Of America crew members injured during fall in life boat in Hilo Hawaii. On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 two crew members in their 30s were injured aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines Pride of America when they […]

Hausman Not Credible $21.5 Million Award Reversed

January 7, 2016

U.S. District Court Judge finds James Hausman “not credible” after former employee alerts #cruise line Holland America Line to evidence tampering and lies in the walked into door head injury case. Court documents outline why the jury verdict was over-turned […]

Holland America Line Koningsdam Cruise Passenger Missing

December 4, 2017

Cruise ship passenger Christopher Nile, 30, from Orlando, Florida who visited St. Kitts on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 is missing. Koningsdam arrived at 0800 hours on Wednesday and when it departed St. Kitts at 1700 […]

Carnival Victory Cruise Passenger Overboard

March 22, 2017

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Brandon Paul, 23, of Floral City, Florida fell overboard from the eighth deck of the Carnival Cruise Lines’ Carnival Victory cruise ship about o300 hours. The ship was about 33 […]

Cruise Ship Passenger Missing Costa Victoria

July 18, 2014

Cruise Ship Missing: Female # cruise ship passenger, 53, is missing from Costa Victoria, ship held in port same day due to former passenger injury lawsuit filed. Ms Hsieh, 53, a Taiwanese-American, was reported missing from the Costa […]

Cruise Passenger John Ali Radwan Arrested

May 6, 2015

Liberty Of The Seas passenger cash theft at hot tub, seen on camera. Florida man with priors arrested. On May 4, 2015, John Ali Radwan, 29, from Florida was arrested for a theft which took […]

FTC Sues Florida Cruise Line

August 15, 2015

Federal Trade Commission ( FTC) and 10 U.S. States sue cruise line for deceptive marketing practices, a #cruise industry first. Full court documents on our website. On March 3, 2014 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), State of […]

Cruise Passenger Arrest Terror Attack

February 2, 2017

Cruise Bruise: VIDEOS – A Turk #travel #cruise ship passenger on a German passport arrested after police get Interpol Red Notice for PKK group #terror attack. Celal Kildag, 58, from Lüdenscheid, Germany was aboard MSC Cruises MSC Opera […]

Independence Of The Seas Miracle Baby Preemie

September 23, 2015

Cruise ship passenger Emily Morgan gives birth months early aboard cruse ship at sea to one pound eight ounce micro-preemie baby boy Haiden after 30 minutes labor. On Tuesday, September 1, 2015, Emily Morgan who runs a gymnastic […]

Doctor Brings Ebola To New York

October 24, 2014

New York doctor, Craig Spencer who works with Doctors Without Borders flew back to New York from West Africa after treating ebola patients tests positive. Craig Spencer, 33, came back from treating Ebola patients in Guinea October 17 and developed a […]

Barf Lawyers Lose Against Cruise Line

August 1, 2015

No Special Treatment: Sickly #cruise ship passengers will suck it up like the rest of the world. An article by Maritime Executive shows the cruise line was not a fault for barf fest, stating “However, the performing […]

Tropical Storm Cindy Named Louisiana Landfall Predicted

June 20, 2017

Tropical Storm Cindy Watch our new live streaming webcams in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, to watch Tropical Storm Cindy come ashore in real time. DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK —————————— Satellite imagery, aircraft data, and surface observations […]

Tropical Storm Olivia

August 27, 2018

NWS Central Pacific Hurricane Center Honolulu HI 500 AM HST Thu Sep 13 2018 Olivia (see Thurs video below)continues to move rapidly toward the west-southwest away from the main Hawaiian Islands this morning. Southwesterly vertical […]

7. 6 Earthquake Shakes Cozumel Grand Caymen

7. 6 Earthquake Shakes Grand Cayman

January 12, 2018

An earthquake measuring 7.5 stuck the Caribbean on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, near 17.469°N 83.520°, or Great Swan Island, Honduras. The earthquake was felt as far away as Cozumel, Mexico and occurred as the result of […]

Ferry Mercraft 3 Sinks Philippines December 21, 2017

Five Dead After Ferry Sinks

December 22, 2017

The ferry Mercraft 3 sank in the Philippines (see video below) around 1100 hours on Thursday, December 21, 2017. The ferry had been traveling on rough seas from Ungos port in Real, a town east […]

Philippine Ferry MV Doña Paz Collision More Than 4000 Passengers Dead

December 20, 1987

On December 20, 1987, at 06:30 hours, the Philippine-registered passenger ferry MV Doña Paz owned by Sulpicio Lines sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector. The MV Doña Paz was sailing from Leyte island to the Philippine capital of Manila. MV Doña Paz was seriously overcrowded, had no radio […]

Sunk Passenger Ship Found by NOAA in San Francisco Bay

April 24, 2014

Steam Ship City of Chester Sinking August 22, 1888 Sunken Steam Ship was discovered by NOAA that had sunk after colliding with an ocean liner during heavy fog. According to NOAA Office of National Marine […]

Passenger Ship Fire 544 Aboard

August 15, 2015

MV Wonderful Star passenger ship caught fire while docked early this morning with 544 people aboard, 2 of 59 crew members injured. The ship was located in Ormoc, located on Leyte Island in the Philippines. Two […]

Two Cruise Ship Passengers Evacuated After Nieuw Amsterdam Alaska Fire

May 23, 2017

This day in cruise history: On May 23, 2000, Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam was on a 7-day cruise between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Seward, Alaska. The cruise ship had 1,169 passengers and 542 crew […]

Cruise Ship Fire Aboard Splendour of the Seas

October 22, 2015

Cruise Ship Fires: Fire broke out aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ship Splendour of the Seas this morning, while the #cruise ship was sailing off the coast of Greece. Thursday October 22, 2015 Royal Caribbean Cruise […]

Norwegian Dawn New Orleans Cruise Ship Drug Smuggler Convicted

Cruise Ship Drug Smuggler King Pin Gets Federal Prison Six Years Sentence

July 21, 2017

As Cruise Bruise reported on January 2016, three Norwegian Cruise Line’s crew members aboard Norwegian Dawn were arrested on January 3, 2016. The arrest took place at the cruise terminal in New Orleans, Louisiana, when Homeland Security Investigations’ […]

USCG ICE Seize 1.5 Tons Marijuana From Caribbean Vessel

July 29, 2014

ICE: Caribbean Sea Marijuana Arrest – 3,500 pounds of marijuana was seized and five people were arrested aboard ship An-Nur. Wholesale drug value $3.5 million. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working jointly with the Coast […]

Corpus Christi USCG Seizes 3800 Pounds Cocaine

Corpus Christi USCBP Seizes 3800 Pounds Cocaine

December 13, 2017

While Carnival Breeze and Carnival Valor were enroute from the Caribbean to Galveston, in international waters near Corpus Christi, Texas, cocaine smugglers were off shore. According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release on December 8, […]

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