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- Death on the high seas: Cruise passengers face head winds with COVID lawsuits
- Miami-Dade Police Arrest Passenger on Charges He Molested 13 Year-Old Girl on Carnival Conquest
- Tumbling tech stocks drag Wall Street to the finish line of another losing week
- COVID-19 Cases Increase on Cruise Ships As Lines Suppress Information
Carnival Cruise Line scrubbed the above promotional information from its website after two of its cruise guests from the Carnival Elation reported that they were sexually assaulted at the Pirate’s Cove resort. While claiming that Pirate’s Cove is supposedly an “independent” tour, Carnival has simultaneously tried to erase all evidence that it promoted Pirate’s Cove to guests on its cruise ships and would charge a fee (from $56.99 to $109.99) for the excursion. The federal trial courts in this jurisdiction (where cruise passengers are required to file suit) have applied Carlisle, but the cruise lines have been trying to chip away at it for years.
Death on the high seas: Cruise passengers face head winds with COVID lawsuits
The fact cruise passengers are clearly more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted on a Carnival Cruise Line ship is obscured by misleading references to the total amount of people who cruise annually. It’s not an effective warning to talk about Carnival carrying 5.5 million passengers a year when the company’s per capita sexual assault rate is higher than the average of most U.S. states. Carnival Cruise Line reported thirty-six (36) such incidents for the first three quarters of the year, including thirty-one passengers who were attacked (the remainder were identified as crew members or “unknown”). Prorated for the rest of the year, the number of sexual assaults and rapes on Carnival Cruise Line ships would be forty-eight (48). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the Silver Nova cruise ship operated by Silversea Cruises is experiencing a gastrointestinal (GI) outbreak which has sickened 23 of 633 passengers (3.63%) and 1 of 538 crew members (0.19%).
Miami-Dade Police Arrest Passenger on Charges He Molested 13 Year-Old Girl on Carnival Conquest
The fire team, which assembled after the explosion, could not open the doors for reason not currently known (perhaps the hydraulic oil became too hot and the hydraulic pump could not build up adequate pressure). A twenty-year old man cruising with his family went overboard late last night as the Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas was returning to Port Everglades following a four day cruise to the Amber Cover cruise port in the Dominican Republic. Assuming the crew member went overboard in an intentional effort to end his or her own life raises the issue of why the unidentified crew member committed suicide (which is the most frequent explanation when a crew member goes overboard). Contracts that last as long as 8 to 10 months, grueling work hours and conditions (which would be illegal if U.S. applied), alienation from family members and friends back home, and a lack of mental health resources on ships are factors we have raised for over a decade.
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The CDC found that 98 of 2,522 (3.89%) guests and 12 of 961 (1.25%) crew member have become ill with symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting during the current cruise on the HAL ship which began its voyage on February 17, 2024. In July 2019, a cruise guest in her 40’s went overboard from the MSC Meraviglia but was promptly rescued after the auto MOB alerted the crew that she went overboard. A crew member went overboard from the MSC Seascape in waters off of Puerto Rico on November 15, 2023. A passenger went overboard from the MSC Armonia during a transatlantic cruise to Brazil on December 15, 2023.
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As a result, he said, judges have dismissed many lawsuits, while others have been settled for less than $10,000 each. Viewing child pornography is not the type of thing that most parents who like to cruise with Disney imagine ship employees doing. A potential danger during a cruise ship is a pedophile crew member interacting with a child in a guest cabin or in a child care facility on the ship. Since then, on February 4th, a passenger fell off the MSC Bellissima cruise ship traveling from Taiwan to Okinawa. According to the Taiwan News, the passenger was located, pulled from the water and then rushed to a hospital, where he was reported to be in good condition following medical treatment. “Michael Truman, 39, … was loudly disrupting a theater show aboard the cruise ship when he was asked twice by a fellow passenger to quiet down.
His family describe him as a humble man who loved working outdoors, taking hikes, playing soccer with his friends and going on cruises with his wife. Multibillion-dollar cruise companies are not worried about the potential financial effect of such lawsuits, even if they end up losing many of the cases, said Ross A. Klein, a sociology professor and cruise industry expert at St. John’s College at Memorial University of Newfoundland. It "is dependent on cruise lines working through the phases of the CSO," Shockey told USA TODAY, referring to the CDC's conditional sailing order. The cruise industry pushed the CDC publicly to drop its "outdated" restrictions in March.
COVID-19 Cases Increase on Cruise Ships As Lines Suppress Information
Have a comment or question, please leave one below or join the discussion on our Facebook page. The Houthis’ attacks on commercial shipping has included vessels unrelated to Israel and have included ships not owned by Israeli or U.S. companies. Around 60 ships have been attacked by the Houthis, one UK-owned cargo ship sunk and three mariners have been killed. The prime location we have concluded for a crew member to assault young children is in the guest cabin. Cabin attendants can use their master key cards to enter cabins if and when parents leave their kids, thinking it’s safe to go to a club or bar at night.
The press in Malta did not mention the name of the cruise ship, but several sources identify the ship as the MSC World Europa. CruiseMapper reports that “according to Port Valletta’s schedule, the only cruise liner visiting on February 14th was the MSC World Europa.” Dr. Ross Klein’s site Cruise Junkie also identifies this particular MSC cruise ship. If you are concerned with the trend of cruise ships to continue to burn HFO and dump toxic scrubber sludge at sea, please contact us. We are interested in seeing additional photos showing the emissions from this cruise ship and other ships in Virgin’s fleet.
Otherwise, searching for an overboard person at night is like searching for a needle in a haystack. There has been a recent explosion of COVID-19 cases on cruise ships, led by the major U.S. based cruise lines like Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL). None of these companies are being transparent with members of the public who are largely reliant on whisle-blower crew members and concerned cruise guests to tell them the truth about the virus.
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Virgin Voyages’ Resilient Lady has created quite a stir over the last several months when it called on Hobart, Tasmania during its regular three-six day cruises from Melbourne and Sydney. Maritime law requires ship owners to immediately take steps to search and rescue passengers (or crew members) as soon as they realize that someone has gone overboard. As a practical matter, this typically involves turning the ship around to the area where the person left the ship.
Much of the violence on Carnival cruise ships is due to the out of control alcohol which this cruise line serves on its twenty-six cruise ships. Crime statistics, either on cruise ships or ashore, are typically calculated on a per capita basis (i.e., per 100,000 people). Cruise Radio does not address this basic fact, and instead compares the crimes to the many people who cruise each year. The fact is that Carnival Cruise Line has a total population at any given time of only a little over 100,000 guests and crew members (108,500), which results in a current (prorated) per capita rate of slightly over 42 per 100,000. (We will update this information when the DOT reports on the sex crimes reported in the fourth quarter of 2023). HAL claims that the crew member allegedly jumped overboard and was quick to report this to the local news station and publications like Cruise Hive (“the person went purposefully overboard” says HAL).
Carnival Cruise Line is well known for its drunken bar brawls fueled by all-you-can-drink packages and inadequately trained security staff whose main function seems to be trying to stop passengers from filming the out-of-control violence. Carnival seems to have made a corporate decision to tolerate the debauchery of drunken in order to maximize profits. The U.S. federal government identified the man as Michael Truman, age 39, who committed the vicious assault. He was charged in federal court for the district of Virginia given the fact that the assailant resides in Portsmouth, Virgina and the Carnival ship sailed from Norfolk, Virginia. So it appears that governmental official Ford has no basis to claim that the voluminous emissions, clearly shown in these photographs, are somehow within whatever limits may apply.
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