COVID-19 Cases Increase on Cruise Ships As Lines Suppress Information

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• Crystal Cruises Risked Crew Member Lives By Sailing Crystal Symphony Through Strait of Bab el-Mandeb into the Red Sea
• Cruise Law News Facebook Page Reaches 200,000 “Likes”
• Second Disney Crew Member on Disney Dream Cruise Ship Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
• Why Are Crimes on Cruise Ships No Longer Being Disclosed to the U.S. Public?
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The CVSSA was the result of the efforts of the International Cruise Victim (ICV) which is a grass-roots organization created in 2006. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stopped reporting to the public COVID-19 cases on cruise ships in July, 100% of the approximately 100 ships sailing from U.S. ports had at least 3% of the guests and crew testing positive for COVID-19. For the last six months, we have reported that there are routinely cruise ships with between 100 to 200 passengers and crew positive for the virus.

Crystal Cruises Risked Crew Member Lives By Sailing Crystal Symphony Through Strait of Bab el-Mandeb into the Red Sea

But the goal of transparency in reporting shipboard rapes on cruise ships has become completely illusory given the fact that the DOT has failed to report any crimes since 2022. The last quarter of cruise crimes reported by the DOT was the last quarter of 2022 (Oct. 1 – Dec. 31, 2022) which was eventually posted on March 22, 2023. Carnival’s PR representative is trying to bamboozle the Post and mislead the public.

Cruise Law News Facebook Page Reaches 200,000 “Likes”

Over the last decade, I’ve published 3,075 articles about cruise ship related issues. An average of over two million people read around seven million pages of Cruise Law News a year. It is the most widely read legal blog in the world published by a full time lawyer, with an Alexa ranking of 110,000.

Second Disney Crew Member on Disney Dream Cruise Ship Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

The Diamond Princess was quarantined Feb. 4, 2020, in Yokohama, Japan, with more than 700 infected passengers. A passenger on the Grand Princess died of COVID-19 after returning to San Francisco from a cruise to Mexico. The contracts also require that lawsuits against cruise companies be filed in designated federal courthouses. Carnival Cruises requires all lawsuits against the line to be filed in the Southern District Court of Florida, in Miami.

Twenty-Year Old Passenger Goes Overboard From the Liberty of the Seas Cruise Ship - Cruise Law News

Twenty-Year Old Passenger Goes Overboard From the Liberty of the Seas Cruise Ship.

Posted: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]

District Court in Los Angeles against Princess and its parent company, Carnival Corp., grew in 2020 to 96, up from 37 in 2019, court records show. The number of lawsuits filed against Carnival in Miami also increased, though only slightly, to 315 in 2020 from 306 in 2019, according to court records. A spokesperson for Carnival Corp. said the cruise company does not comment on pending litigation.

As the cruise ship industry tries to turn a corner on the pandemic, the Grand Princess will depart from the Port of L.A. The cruise line industry faces a wave of lawsuits from passengers and their families saying they or their loved ones contracted COVID-19 on a ship, resulting in either death or severe illness. A passenger attacked and severely injured his girlfriend ten days ago onboard the Norwegian Breakaway, according to court filings in a criminal case filed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nearly 40 years ago, a state appellate court in Florida held that a cruise line owes its passengers a duty to warn of known dangers beyond the point of debarkation in places where passengers are invited or reasonably expected to visit. A passenger went overboard from the MSC Armonia during a transatlantic cruise to Brazil on December 15, 2023 and a crew member went overboard from the MSC Seascape in waters off of Puerto Rico on November 15, 2023.

The CDC does not always determine the cause of the outbreak which in this case may be because the cruise ship has not yet called on a U.S. port where stool samples of the affected passengers can be collected and tested. U.S. Federal agents arrested a man working as a crew member for Disney Cruise Line on two federal charges for possessing numerous child sexual abuse material, according to a criminal complaint filed yesterday in the U.S. The key to winning a coronavirus lawsuit against a cruise line is proving the cruise ship failed to act reasonably under the circumstances, said Michael Karcher, a Miami attorney who specializes in maritime law.

Security footage from the resort reportedly shows that shortly after receiving the drinks, the women were barely able to stand as they were led away to a bathroom by the two resort employees and both raped by the two men. (In an interview with the Nassau Guardian, the resort claims that the surveillance footage does not support their claims but provides no explanation for the alleged discrepancy). The Bahamian press has not named the two suspects, reporting only that a “54-year-old man from Eight Mile Rock and a 40-year-old male from South Bahamia” were arrested.

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Carnival Cruise Lines: Watch Your Kids! - Cruise Law News

Carnival Cruise Lines: Watch Your Kids!.

Posted: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Carnival’s higher rate of physical assaults can be traced to overserving its customers alcoholic drinks to pad its profits and to pay its bar servers who work on gratuities and tips. Carnival also has a per capita rape rate higher than many states in the U.S. (as discussed below). Perhaps it was the euphoria of Carnival repealing the automatic man overboard safety law, but Micky was ecstatic. ” he said handing maritime lawyer Walker a half-eaten hot dog and three-quarters of a warm Bud Light which a Miami cheerleader handed Micky in the first quarter of the previous game a few days earlier. Since 1972, Carnival has incorporated its business and registered its cruise ships in the country of Panama.

The “big three” cruise companies, Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, have also recently rolled back their policies of requiring pre-cruise COVID-19 testing for most guests boarding their cruise ships. Carnival Cruise Line also has the same number of cruise ships as Royal Caribbean (each now owns 27 ships). But Royal Caribbean has larger cruise ships with greater capacity and carries more passengers than Carnival at any given time. There’s a direct correlation between excessive alcohol and violence (bar brawls) and violence against female guests (rape) on cruise ships.

By analogy, the per capita crime statistics for U.S. cities are calculated based only on the number of residents in a city, not the total amount of tourists who may visit the city for a short time. When the issue was being debated before Congress, before the CVSSA was enacted in 2010, the cruise lines lobbied to avoid disclosing the sexual crimes where a child was victimized. But testimony before Congress and media reports clearly indicates that approximately one-third of victims are minors. According to the comprehensive reporting of cruise expert Dr. Ross Klein, there have been at least 407 people who have gone overboard from cruise ships (and a few ferries) in the last 25 years.

One passenger died from the fall, one survived and recovered, and three guests and one crew member disappeared in the water. We depend on crew members and the cruising public to send us information regarding what is really going on. If you have news about unsafe conditions facing passengers and crew members or other issues of concern to you, like cruise ship pollution, we’d like to hear from you. Unless you instruct us otherwise, we keep all sources of information confidential and anonymous.

(HAL later stated that the Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) was leading the investigation), although this ship flies the flag of the Netherlands (see update below). This preliminary information, the photo of the steam bellow (above), and a video of the location of the accident (below) were provided by cruise employees who wishes to remain anonymous. Crystalmercier3 posted a follow up video on TikTok to address “parent shaming” in response to her video. It seems that some people were quick to cast criticisms for Crystal leaving her daughter for just a minute without addressing the issue that the cruise line security was clearly indifferent to the problem. Because the Silver Nova is a new cruise ship (with its maiden voyage on August 14, 2023 and christened in January 2024), the ship has not yet had a bi-annual sanitation inspection by the CDC. Last year, there were fourteen (14th) outbreaks with Princess Cruises and Celebrity Cruises each experiencing three (3) outbreaks.

The majority of passengers who go overboard are grossly intoxicated by the excessive amount of alcohol sold during cruises. One of the first things that the security department on Royal Caribbean cruise ships does to investigate the reason someone has gone overboard is to print out the passenger’s itemization of onboard purchases. Such documentation lists the alcoholic drinks sold and the time and location of the bar where the guest was served. We have seen many cases where the guest will be sold 15 to 20 drinks in a few hours before they go overboard.