The horrors of a February 2013 Carnival Cruise are being revisited in a new Netflix documentary that dropped this week, and the story is nothing short of a total shipshow. What was meant to be a four-day roundtrip from Galveston, Texas, to Cozumel, Mexico, turned into at least 4,000 passengers…
A man, 71, faces criminal charges after police say he grabbed a teenager while aboard a cruise ship off the Australian coast. Jeffrey Mark Spiro, of New Zealand, was charged with deprivation of liberty and two counts of common assault. The alleged incident happened on June 19 at around 11…
While a cruise ship was docked in Santorini, Greece, a 31-year-old engine department worker fell, prompting an emergency evacuation. The incident happened on Sunday, June 15, 2025, while the worker was heading down the stairs to the engine room. During the fall, he injured his left leg. He was transported…
Several passengers have been permanently banned from sailing with Carnival Cruise Line for fighting on board and throwing chairs. A fight broke out on the Carnival Sunrise over the weekend as the ship sailed from the Bahamas, cruise media reported Tuesday. A video that surfaced online shows multiple passengers in…
Larger cruise lines are leaving Grand Cayman, an island in the Cayman Islands, off of their itineraries, causing a 25-year low in monthly cruise visitors, according to cruise news sites. The latest data alleges that the Grand Cayman — the largest of the three islands making up the British territory…
Heavy winds over the weekend caused chaos for multiple cruise lines over the weekend and multiple injuries to passengers. At least three ships were affected by the winds, with one incident being caught on camera by a passenger who was filming from his cabin balcony. The first incident was caused…
A 12-year-old girl died after falling from a third-story window at a Massachusetts apartment during a sleepover with friends, news outlets reported. Arya Lebeau died a day after the incident on May 24, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. “I cannot express the amount of grief I feel at…
Lengthy terms and conditions are scrolled past with fervor, and liability waivers are signed on digital screens in a rush. Whether it’s before a jet-ski guided tour in Key West, a parasailing adventure, or when purchasing a ticket aboard a cruise ship, people pay little mind to the language in…
The cruise ship industry is plagued by norovirus and other multiple claims of sickness and illness from unsanitized standards and crew practices. Fortunately, those incidents are often temporary and transient. However, in an effort to aggressively compete, each major cruise line has made their ship a “recreational or theme park”…
In the last decade, the cruise experience alone does not work in the economically fierce competition for cruise passengers which has forced all the major cruise lines to turn the travel cruise experience into an “amusement park”. Clear examples of various injuries and death resulting from on-board activities and excursions…