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At least four cruise line crew members were removed from a ship in Baltimore on allegations that they possessed child sex abuse material, national media outlets recently reported.

Officers with Custom and Border Protection inspected the ship on Sept. 7 “based on intelligence” that the employees had the sex abuse material, according to USA TODAY reporting. It is unclear whether any criminal charges had been filed against the crew members involved.

In a statement to reporters, CBP officials said that they are “involved in ongoing cruise vessel operations where we enforce immigration law.”

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A 32-year-old cruise ship passenger died after falling off an Alaskan trail and sliding down a steep mountain while on a hike with at least one other person, according to media.

The body of Britain Pool, of Texas, was found off the Mount Roberts trail in Juneau around 8:10 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 16, by police.

Pool and at least one other cruise ship passenger were hiking when they fell off the trail and slid down the mountain. Rescuers were able to find the other passenger but could not locate Pool, who had slid further down the mountain.

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At least two people were taken to the hospital for injuries following a fight that broke out aboard a Royal Caribbean ship this week, according to national media outlets.

The incident happened Monday around 6:48 p.m. when Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies and local firefighters were called our to PortMiami for reports of a “dispute”, according to national media. Investigators later learned that an alleged verbal argument became physical aboard the ship, causing the captain to return to port.

The ship returned to port around 8:30 p.m.

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Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth will call Miami home, at least for a little while, a history-making move for the company.

After an “increasing demand from North American guests,” the ship will be making trips to the Caribbean from what many consider to be the cruising capital of the world, according to reporting from The Miami Herald.

The ship will be in Miami from mid-October until April 2026, making trips that range from nine to 28-night voyages to locations such as Jamaica, Mexico St. Thomas, St. Lucia, Honduras, Mexico, Barbados and Puerto Rico. After its departure in April of 2026, the ship will return to Miami next October until April 2027.

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Teetering waves and non-code-compliant stairs or railings are a dangerous combination — one that has caused painful injuries for many Leesfield & Partners clients.

While many may not think about the various ways in which they can be injured when they set out on a cruise ship vacation, it doesn’t mean that accidents still aren’t a possibility.

And serious injuries from falls aren’t just something that occurs to the elderly.  Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that falls occur across all age groups. Even so, the average age of passengers departing from PortMiami is 46.5 years old, according to Industry Reports from the Cruise Lines International Association, showing that relatively young individuals are still falling (no pun intended) prey to these incidents.

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Royal Caribbean is canceling approximately six months of visits to Labadee, a key cruise port location located on Haiti’s northern coast.

The private cruise destination is owned by Royal Caribbean and has been taken off of many itineraries due to ongoing civil unrest. Since November, gang activity has left locals fearing for their lives and homes. Port-au-Prince’s Delmas 30 neighborhood is a burned husk of its former self with buildings that survived the devastating January 2010 earthquake reduced to rubble following the attacks, according to reporting from The Miami Herald.

The country’s continued political instability has left locals plagued by the possibility of kidnappings, killings, arson and sexual attacks as they struggle with food insecurity, fuel and medicine shortages.

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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 Guard and two tugboats that guided it into Naples. The ship later regained partial engine power, arriving hours after it was originally meant to. The cruise line is conducting a full inspection and said the ship is expected to resume its sailing schedule Tuesday.

While this power failure was quickly addressed and resulted in limited disruption to passengers’ vacations, other engine failure, mechanical issues and fires do occur aboard ships. If not swiftly dealt with, however, there can be bigger consequences. The passengers of a 2013 cruise ship that lost power know this better than most. In that case, which was explored in a recent Netflix documentary, passengers were stranded without power for days in a stifling ship with no working bathrooms, creating a recipe for disaster.

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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 these cases, a 52-year-old woman and a 99-year-old man were suffering from separate emergencies. The woman was suffering from cardiac arrest and the man was experiencing “complete esophageal obstruction,” according to reporting from CBS News.

The ship is estimated to be around 145 nautical miles west of Cape Flattery in Washington state at the time of the evacuations. The U.S. Coast Guard coordinated with the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Coast Guard to evacuate the passengers.

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A cruise ship nearly hit a pontoon boat in Tampa Bay this week after the boat had mechanical issues and drifted into the ship’s path, according to Cruise News Today.

The boat was disabled due to a line wrapping around its propeller. About four minutes later, a cruise ship sailed by, causing Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies with the agency’s marine unit to perform an emergency tow of the boat. At least six adults were rescued from the pontoon boat. Deputies stayed with the boat until it was operable.

Last year, a couple was stranded in the Tampa Bay awaiting help after a cruise ship caused a wake that overturned.

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At least two people have died from apparent drownings in separate incidents over the weekend at the same Bahamas resort.

The incidents occurred on Friday at Celebration Key, the new private resort reserved for Carnival Cruise Line guests. Both victims, a man and a woman in their 70s from the U.S., were assisted by lifeguards but could not be saved.

The first incident happened just before noon Friday involving a man, 79, who was snorkeling off one of the Celebration Key beaches. The man became unresponsive and was pulled from the water by a lifeguard who administered CPR. Tragically, the man died.

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