Cruise Bruise News Cruise Industry News and Investigations

Cruise Ship Weather

Tropical Storm Oscar

NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 PM EDT Tue Oct 23 2018 For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Tropical Storm Oscar Forming? – (see video below) A broad area of low [...]
Cruise Ship Deaths

Halloween Ghosts at Sea Choose Haunting Cruise Experience

Halloween Ghosts at Sea Choose Haunting Cruise Experience – Cruise Ship Haunting – Could Ghosts Be Haunting These Cruise Ships and Cabins? Ghosts Of The Cruise Ship Dead – Violent & Evil Cruise Ship Cabin Deaths. [...]
Travel Warning

Migrant Caravan Path Intersects Hurricane Willa Track

Migrant Caravan Path Intersects Hurricane Willa Track (see video below) – Honduras Migrant Caravan Location Tapachula, Mexico – ESE of Hurricane Willa – A group of about 1,000 Hondurans set off on foot from a [...]
Cruise Ship Weather

Two Tropical Storms Vicente Willa Cabo San Lucas Mexico Bound

Two Tropical Storms Vicente Willa Cabo San Lucas Mexico Bound – As the tropical weather season winds down to the final weeks, two storms in the Pacific Ocean have formed in the same area off Mexico. Tropical [...]
Cruise Ship Weather

Tropical Storm Vicente

NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1000 AM CDT Tue Oct 23 2018 Tropical Storm Vicente (see 5 videos below) – Satellite imagery indicates that Vicente crossed the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacan a [...]

Naville J. Fernandes Crew Death Aboard Liberty of the Seas

November 30, 2017

Naville J. Fernandes, 41, a cruise ship crew member from Goa, India was aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines’ Liberty of the Seas, where he died the second day of a 7-Night Western Caribbean cruise on Monday, July [...]
Firecracker Baby Crew Pixels in 270 Dancer Dies Aboard Ovation of the Seas

November 30, 2017
Cruise Industry News Updates

March 15, 2015

SEC Suit Against Broker Ponzi Scheme, SEC Wins

February 19, 2015

Two NY men guilty of violating securities law luring 841 investors into ponzi scheme involved sexually-based #cruise. Read court docs Other #cruise laws cases SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION – Plaintiff, v. McGINN, SMITH & CO., INC., McGINN, SMITH ADVISORS, [...]
GUILTY! Heather Mack Murder Trial

April 21, 2015
Princess Cruises fined $40M for Dumping Oily Waste into Sea

April 21, 2017

Green Bay Wisconsin Becomes Cruise Port

February 25, 2018

Green Bay, Wisconsin is getting on the map as a cruise port in July 2018. Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay are ports of call on Victory Cruise Lines (see video below) cruise ship Victory 10-day Great […]

Canadian Actress Shay Mitchell Now Royal Caribbean Adventurist

January 18, 2018

Royal Caribbean’s new “Adventurist” (see video playlist below), is now Canadian Shay Mitchell, 30, writer, film and television actress best known for her role as Emily Fields in the Pretty Little Liars television series. Mitchell is […]

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 […]

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 […]

Seven Seas Mariner Cruise Ship Passenger Overboard

July 12, 2018

Seven Seas Mariner Cruise Ship Passenger Overboard – On Tuesday, July 10, 2018, a passenger aboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises ship Seven Seas Mariner went overboard on the first night of the cruise. At the time, Seven […]

Drones Aid Cruise Ship Overboard Rescue At Sea

Drones Can Aid Cruise Ship Overboard Rescue At Sea

January 20, 2018

On Thursday, January 18, 2018, in northern New South Wales (NSW), Australia, a remote controlled drone has come to the rescue of two swimmers who were swept out to sea, The drone, controlled by a […]

NCL Passenger Files Lawsuit After Water Slide Incident

April 12, 2017

On April 6, 2016 a Norwegian Cruise Line, Norwegian Escape passenger filed a lawsuit in the Federal Southern District Court of Florida, after alleging she suffered injuries inside the water slide aboard their cruise ship. […]

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 […]

Cruise Ship Injury Ends Legendary Musician’s Career

August 14, 2015

Lawsuit filed by Gyula Bruno Fekete brother blames Uniworld River Cruises for legendary saxophonist’s 2014 SS Antoinette delayed head injury/coma treatment by Boppard, German hospital. On June 3, 2014 legendary saxophonist from Hungary Gyula Bruno (Maxi) Fekete, 62, had been booked to perform […]

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 […]

19 Years Ago Amy Lynn Bradley Missing Cruise Ship Passenger

March 25, 2017

It was 19 years ago yesterday that Petersburg, Virginia cruise ship passenger Amy Lynn Bradley, 24, went missing aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines’ Rhapsody Of The Seas on March 24, 1998, but was never seen […]

Muslim Cruise Passengers Missing in Port

January 22, 2017

Cruise Bruise: Three Muslim #cruise passenger are missing in port after election state of emergency is called. A President who took office as a result of a coup, refuses to leave after being voted out, wrecking havoc […]

Italy Cruise Ship Murder Investigation Begun

March 19, 2018

As reported in June 2017, Simone Scheuer Souza, 36, from São Paulo, Brazil was a housekeeping crew member aboard MSC Cruises cruise ship MSC Musica when she went overboard on Monday, June 19, 2017 (see video below) while […]

Pooped DJ Whoo Kid, Waka Flocka Flame Banned From NCL Cruise Ships

April 11, 2017

The Gronk Cruise was hosted by Buffalo Bills rookie tight end Glenn Gronkowski and billed as the Rob Gronkowski & Family Cruise. More than a year later, the poop scoop has come out and it stinks […]

AU Bomb Scare Cruise Ship and Ferry Evacuated

November 30, 2015

Cruise Ship Fires: #Cruise Ship Noordam and #ferry Spirit of Tasmania were both evacuated in Melbourne, #Australia after a police dog alerted for a #bomb while sniffing a pallet of groceries on the dock. As Noordam and […]

Cruise Ship Doctor Sues Cruise Line and Cruise Ship Captain

August 19, 2014

#Cruise Bruise: Doctor says race to keep Balmoral transatlantic Titantic 100 year Memorial Cruise on schedule, saw another cruise ship captain put schedule before human life. Tim Rex was on the ‘Titanic Memorial Voyage’, working for the BBC to film […]

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 […]

Island Princess First 2018 Cruise Ship Norovirus Outbreak

CDC Cruise Ship Outbreak Statistics 2008 to 2014

February 10, 2018

What is already known on this topic? “From 1990 to 2004, the reported rates of diarrheal disease (three or more loose stools or a greater than normal amount in a 24-hour period) on cruise ships […]

HAL Westerdam Excursion Plane Crashes

June 25, 2015

Cruise Bruise: Alaska float plane excursion crashes with 8 cruise ship passengers aboard. USCG search underway. 8 Cruise Ship Passengers Aboard When Plane Crashed June 25, 2015 Eight cruise ship passengers who were sailing aboard Holland America a Line […]

Tropical Depression Lane Track 0500 Hours August 28 2018

Tropical Storm Lane

August 11, 2018

NWS Central Pacific Hurricane Center Honolulu HI 500 AM HST Tue Aug 28 2018 Overnight GOES-15 fog product imagery along with a few VIIRS images and a Monday evening SCATSAT pass show that the exposed […]

7.2 Earthquake 37km NE of Pinotepa de Don Luis Mexico

February 16, 2018

On Friday, February 16, 2018, a 7.2 earthquake struck in Oaxaca, Mexico (see video below). The earthquake occurred as a result of shallow thrust faulting on or near the plate boundary between the Cocos and […]

MV Lyubov Orlova Drifting Ghost Ship or Sunk?

January 30, 2014

Lyubov Orlova sailed into St. John’s, Newfoundland in Canada, was inspected and prevented from sailing with passengers for a booked cruise due to too many issues not passing inspection. Meanwhile, the crew was aboard while […]

Portland Spirit Collision During Red Bull Event

August 3, 2015

Portland boater congestion during Red Bull event lead to cruise ship collision, USCG terminates event permit. Portland Spirit Cruises & Events Ship Portland Spirit Collided with Boaters of the Redbull Flugtag Event on the Willamette River at […]

MV Pinak Sinks – Over 100 Passengers Dead

July 5, 2014

#Cruise Ship Sinking: MV Pinak sunk with an estimated 250 ferry passengers aboard, only about 100 rescued, the other passengers are missing. Rescue slow. MV Pinak Ferry Sinks Padma River Dhaka Bangladesh With Over 200 Passengers Aboard. […]

On This Day in Cruise History SS General Slocum Fire New York City

June 15, 2017

On this day in cruise history: 113 years ago today on Wednesday, June 15, 1904 there was a passenger ship fire aboard the SS General Slocum in Manhattan New York. The General Slocum was a sidewheel passenger […]

Cruise Europa Galley Fire Monday

December 21, 2015

Minoan Lines Ferry Cruise Europa Fire December 21, 2015 Cruise Europa reported a galley fire aboard, with nearly 800 aboard. On December 21, 2015, Cruise Europa, a ferry owned by Greek shipping company Minoan Lines had […]

Cruise Ship Fire Delays Voyage Until April

January 12, 2016

AIDAprima fire further delays 85 day cruise from Hamburg, Germany. Shipyard workers and crew were evacuated and no injuries were reported. The fire was quickly suppressed by shipyard’s fire brigade and local authorities. The fire was […]

Canada No Trial For Three Island Princess Crew Cocaine Smugglers

May 23, 2017

As Cruise Bruise reported earlier, three cruise ship crew members Willard Bryan Murray Brooks, 28, Emil Arthur Hebbert Garth, 26, Jason William West Carter, 32, all from Nicaragua, were arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, when Princess […]

Cruise Ship Marijuana Arrests End Vacation For Two Passengers in Bermuda

June 15, 2017

Stephen Gotter, 51, from Massachusetts, and Susan Cochran, from New Jersey were aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Norwegian Dawn on Saturday , June 10, 2017 when the cruise ship docked in Bermuda at the Royal Naval […]

Harvest Caye Belize Police Cocaine Arrest Three Passengers Aboard Norwegian Escape

June 24, 2017

On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, three cruise ship passengers aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Norwegian Escape were arrested in Harvest Caye, Belize. The three men were arrested for allegedly smuggling over two kilos of cocaine. Derson Frank, […]

Volcano Rinjani 6.5 Earthquake Mudslides 16 Dead 150 Injured

Mount Rinjani Volcano 6.5 Earthquake Mudslides 15 Dead 150 Injured

July 30, 2018

Mount Rinjani Volcano 6.5 Earthquake Mudslides 15 Dead 150 Injured – On Sunday, July 29, 2018, following the strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake (see video below) yesterday, which occurred right under the volcano, triggered landslides and mudflows, damaging some […]

Follow Cruise Bruise on Facebook

New Cruise Bruise Articles