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13 Costa Smeralda Guests Face Prosecutors After Shipboard Brawl
Surveillance footage and crew accounts traced the confrontation to a comment near the nightclub before it moved into corridors and a nearby elevator bank.
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Amadea Crew Moves 320 Passengers After Linen-Room Fire
Bornholm Police received the alarm at 7:21 in the morning, firefighters extinguished the blaze by 7:31, and Amadea continued its twelve-night itinerary.
Norwegian Cruise Line
Whittier Cruise Dock Declared Total Loss After Fire
Crews released the one hundred thirty-seven-foot Klondike Express from the pier to fight the vessel fire away from the dock as the Coast Guard set a five hundred-yard safety zone.
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RCAF Airlifts Ill Cruise Passenger From Ship Off Port Hardy
The Kingfisher aircraft reached the ship first, keeping watch as two search-and-rescue technicians were lowered from a Cormorant helicopter to prepare the hoist.
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RCAF Evacuates Injured Cruise Crew Member Off Port Hardy
The Kingfisher reached the vessel first and stayed overhead while the Cormorant helicopter lowered two search-and-rescue technicians to the deck.
Royal Caribbean
Western New York Firefighters Plan Royal Caribbean Training Cruise
Freedom of the Seas is slated to call at Belize City and Puerto Costa Maya, with two sea days featuring leadership, tactics and mental health sessions.
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Portland, Maine, Launches Cruise Ship Outbreak Text Alerts
Portland logged 133 ship calls and 200,801 passenger days in the latest CruiseMaine report, leading Maine in cruise visitation despite a decline from its peak.
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AIDAperla Stays in Le Havre After Winds Snap Moorings
About five hundred passengers returning from shore excursions waited aboard buses after gangways fell into the harbor and tugs worked to secure the vessel.
Disney Cruise Line
Chicago Man Pleads Not Guilty in Disney Cruise Bomb Threat Case
Investigators say the December 6 call was traced to Smith’s cellphone after a caller claimed a bomb was aboard a cruise ship traveling from The Bahamas.
Princess Cruises
UQ Study Finds Cruise Waivers Often Void Under Australian Law
In December 2023, Australia's High Court held Carnival's waiver in the Ruby Princess case unfair and void, allowing United States passengers to remain.
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Passenger Dies Aboard Seven Seas Voyager, Taken Ashore in Ireland
Seven Seas Voyager anchored off the western shore of Lough Foyle before the passenger was taken approximately thirty-nine miles to Letterkenny University Hospital.
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Coast Guard Evacuates Two Cruise Passengers in Florida Keys
A Coast Guard Station Marathon boat crew transported a seventy-eight-year-old man and a seventy-two-year-old woman before local emergency medical personnel took over.