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Royal Caribbean Takes the Heat Over Azamara's Abandonment of Elderly Cruise Couple 23 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
"Royal Caribbean In Hot Water Over Couple's Cruise Medical Ordeal" reads the internet headline on CBS News. This morning CBS Morning News covered the story of a 89 year-old cruise passenger, on the A...
Millennium Passengers Fear Riot & Call 911 23 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
KRBD FM Community Radio for Southeast Alaska has an interesting story today about cruise passengers aboard the broken down Celebrity Millennium cruise ship calling 911 in Ketchikan out of fear that a ...
Wall Street Journal: "Reputation, Regulatory Issues Dog Cruise Industry" 22 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
Today the Wall Street Journal published an article about the cruise industry's efforts to overcome damage to its reputation while battling off criticism by a consumer group and efforts by Congress to ...
Coast Guard Medevacs Sick Passenger from Norwegian Dawn 22 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
Cape Code Today reports that U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 50-year-old man from a NCL cruise ship 160 nautical miles from Nantucket. The man was hoisted by a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and flown to meet ...
U.S. Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of Another Costa Concordia Case 22 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal has affirmed an order of dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds of a case filed by an Italian citizen and Italian business for damages as a result of the Costa ...
Azamara Abandons 89 Year Old Passenger in Turkey with Broken Hip 21 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
WFTS, an ABC affiliate in Tampa, Florida, reports on a story that we hear about all too often - an elderly passenger is injured during a cruise and ends up alone in a foreign hospital where no one spe...
Lawsuit Filed Against Royal Caribbean After Injury to Child 21 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Today local NBC affiliate channel 6 aired a story today about a 9 year old boy who underwent emergency brain surgery after being injured during a cruise sponsored game on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship...
Sun Princess Joins Ranks of Disabled Cruise Ships 20 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
USA TODAY and the Mirror newspaper in the U.K. report that Princess Cruises has canceled today's sailing of the Sun Princess, citing a power problem. The Sun Princess is an 18 year-old cruise ship wh...
Celebrity Cruises' Millennium Strands Passengers Again 20 Aug 2013 | 07:09 am
Celebrity Cruises Millennium cruise ship that was grounded in Alaska last week is having trouble again. Celebrity Cruises said in a statement: Due to a mechanical problem in one of Celebrity Millenn...
Thomas Aquinas Ferry Collides with MV Sulpicio Express Cargo Ship: Hundreds of Passengers Missing 17 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
A maritime disaster is unfolding in the Philippines after the passenger ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sank after colliding with a large cargo ship, the MV Sulpicio Express, near the port of Cebu. The ferr....
