A Florida man, who reportedly works on Disney cruise ships for Disney Vacation Club, was arrested last week after a 13 year-old girl told her mother that he raped her dozens of time at his home, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
The Sentinel stated that 53 year-old Keith Seitz reportedly molested the little girl at his home, beginning when she was 10. Starting when she was 11, he reportedly raped her “over 100 times.”…
A radio program in Sydney, Australia, the Alan Jones radio show, is reporting that Cruise and Maritime Voyages’ Vasco Da Gama (formerly the P&O Pacific Eden) lost power to its engines in the Gulf of St. Vincent off Adelaide, Australia earlier today.
The radio station 2GB’s Steve Price spoke to passengers onboard, who reportedly said:
Approximately 900 passengers are onboard the stricken ship.
The ship is running on auxiliary power only with minimal or…
Cruise ships reportedly experienced an “unprecedented crime wave” this summer, with 35 sexual assaults involving 27 passengers. The majority of such sexual crimes occurred on Carnival Cruise Line ships, according to the New York Post which reviewed the U.S. Department of Transportation’s latest cruise crime statistical compilation published last week.
Carnival Cruise Line has More Sexual Assaults than any other Cruise Line with a Comparable Fleet
When compared to Royal Caribbean, the only other…
Yesterday, we received information from a passenger aboard Holland America Line’s Volendam that the cruise ship ran aground on a sandbar on the Amazon River between Macapá and Santarém in Brazil.
The passenger, who did not wish to be identified, is a retired Coast Guard officer. He stated:
“Volendam ran aground on a sandbar in the Amazon River this morning around 4:15 AM. It took seven hours to inspect for damage, hull integrity and they…
On 20 November 2019, the European Commission (EC) published a further consultation on the proposal to extend the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (BER).
The shipping and motor vehicles’ industries remain the only two sectors to benefit from a sector-specific block exemption. In recent years, the EC has been moving away from sector-specific exemptions. In 2018, the EU Insurance Block Exemption Regulation expired without the EC seeking to extend it.
The EC’s proposal is for an…
Last Monday, the FBI arrested a NCL cruise passenger in Port Canaveral at the end of a cruise to the Bahamas on charges of transporting child pornography.
Michael Harrison was traveling aboard the Norwegian Sun on a four day cruise to the Bahamas (Grand Stirrup Cay and Nassau) which departed from Port Canaveral on November 14, 2019 and returned to that port on November 18th.
The criminal complaint and FBI affidavit filed in federal case…
A 10-year-old boy from Singapore reportedly died after being found “unresponsive” in a cruise ship swimming pool yesterday according to several Asian newspapers.
Channel News Asia (CNA) reported that the child was sailing with his mother on the Genting Dream operated by Dream Cruises.
Bernama stated that a “pool attendant” failed to rescue the boy after he was found unresponsive in the ship’s pool.
Newsweek reported that the boy was taken off of the ship and…
A male passenger died after he fell four stories on a Carnival cruise ship during a recent cruise, according to a news station in Fort Meyers, Florida.
The newspaper did not identify the Carnival cruise ship in its article which it published last night, although a video produced by WINK News showed footage taken of the Carnival Horizon.
The video was taken from a balcony on deck nine down to an exterior deck on level five.…
A cruise passenger reportedly went overboard from a Norwegian cruise ship this week as the ship was sailing to NCL’s “private island,” Great Stirrup Cay, in the Bahamas, according to the popular Cruise Hive blog.
The blog states that a woman went overboard on November 12, 2019 as the NCL cruise ship Norwegian Sun was near Freeport, Bahamas (where the ship previously called).
A passenger who tweeted about the incident indicated that the ship…
A passenger attacked and severely injured his girlfriend ten days ago onboard the Norwegian Breakaway, according to court filings in a criminal case filed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
An affidavit of an FBI agent who investigated the incident filed together with the criminal complaint* in the case of U.S. v. Smiley (case number 3:19-mj-02201-SCC) alleges that:
On November 4, 2019 at around 3:45 A.M., cruise passenger and Texas resident Jeff Smiley III was cruising…