A major power failure Monday left a cruise ship with thousands of passengers drifting for hours off the coast of Italy, according to Cruise News Today. An electrical issue the ship’s engines caused the outage, though onboard services continued with little disruption The ship required help from the Italian Coast…
Two cruise ship passengers were evacuated from a ship off the coast of Washington state Sunday when hit with two separate medical emergencies, however, Leesfield & Partners attorneys know this is not always the case. Thankfully, however, that was not the case for two passengers facing recent medical emergencies. In…
A cruise ship passenger filming the walk to their cruise ship was so distracted by his phone screen that he walked straight off the pier, falling into the water below, according to various news outlets. The incident happened Thursday at Royal Caribbean’s CocoCay, a private island in the Bahamas. Rescue…
The Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, which has largely been credited with altering the landscape of luxury hospitality in the area and was once the playground for elites including Elvis Presley, Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra, has recently announced plans to build a water park on the iconic property. The home…
Electrical failure resulting in a power outage caused thousands of passengers aboard a Celebrity Cruise Line ship without power and drifting off the Italian coast for several hours over the weekend, officials say. The Royal Caribbean Group, which is the cruise line’s parent company, said that the 2,170-passenger ship was…
The FBI is investigating a death that occurred aboard the Carnival Dream, but little details have been released. The incident happened on Wednesday, July 23, aboard the Carnival Dream near Belize City during a six-day western Caribbean voyage. Passengers told KHOU, a local news outlet in Houston, that they woke…
An electrical fire caused a power outage on the Celebrity Infinity Monday, causing a delay and forcing the ship to extend its stay in Kusadasi, Turkey. The fire was quickly extinguished and no injuries have been reported, according to Cruise News Today, an online cruise vlog. The ship remained without…
Authorities have recovered the body of a missing cruise ship passenger after she went missing on a hike last week in Juneau, according to media reporting. The body of Marites Buenafe, 62, of Kentucky, was found Thursday by an Alaska Army national Guard helicopter crew below the ridge line of…
Authorities have recovered the body of a missing cruise passenger after she went missing on a hike last week in Juneau, according to media reporting. The body of Marites Buenafe, 62, of Kentucky, was found Thursday by an Alaska Army National Guard helicopter crew below the ridge line of the…
A father went overboard after his daughter fell from the Disney Dream Cruise as it sailed back to Florida from the Bahamas Sunday, according to reporting from various media outlets. The four-day cruise was sailing back to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale when the child went overboard and her father…