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Automatic Man Overboard System to Be Installed on Mystery Cruise Ship

By Jim Walker on August 23, 2019

MARSS announced today via Seatrade Cruse News that it secured a contract for the installation of MOBtronic, its advanced man overboard detection and tracking system onboard a new cruise ship due for operation later this year. “The contract includes the installation of a network of MOBtronic marinised pods that are strategically positioned to cover the volume around the entire vessel, creating a virtual shield which automatically detects and classifies a man-overboard event. The system features…

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Passenger Missing From the Genting Dream

By Jim Walker on August 22, 2019

A seventy-four year old retired electrician ia reportedly missing from the Genting Dream cruise ship, according to a newspaper in Singapore. Cruise expert Dr. Ross Klein identifies Mr. Goh Hai Peng as the missing passenger who left Singapore on the Genting cruise ship on August 4th. The four-day, three-night cruise included stops on the islands of Penang and Langkawi in Malaysia on Aug 5th and 6th. Mr. Goh’s son, Mr. Adrian Goh, who did…

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Man Overboard From the Symphony of the Seas (warning, graphic)

By Jim Walker on August 14, 2019

A man reportedly went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas last night, according to a passenger on the cruise ship. His twitter account contains a graphic reference to the recovery of the overboard man’s body by a rescue boat. The passenger states that the person apparently went overboard around 3:00 a.m. last night, as the cruise ship was sailijng from St. Kitts to St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. There is a second video poster…

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How Long Will the Bahamas Tolerate Carnival Trashing its Waters and Polluting its Air?

By Jim Walker on August 13, 2019

A week ago we posted an article which showed the Carnival Victory belching thick black smoke into the air while it was still moored at the Princess George wharf in Nassau. Carnival was also recently caught illegally burning heavy fuel oil in protected areas on 19 occasions, according to the Miami Herald. The Herald has consistently covered the DOJ’s investigation into the environmental record of the cruise giant which has resulted in $60,000,000 in fines…

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41 Year Old Woman Overboard From Princess Cruises’ Sun Princess: Coast Guard Investigates Possible Foul Play

By Jim Walker on August 12, 2019

A passenger disappeared from the Sun Princess cruise ship during a five-day cruise to Okinawa, Japan after from the port of Keelung in Taiwan on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. The forty-one year old woman was reportedly traveling with her mother and aunt, according to the Focus Media News Channel. The article does not state the day or time of the woman’s disappearance, but states that the victim, identified only by her surname Wang (王), was first discovered missing at…

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Carnival Fantasy Flunks Sanitation Inspection

By Jim Walker on August 10, 2019

Carnival Fantasy 3 — Carnival Fantasy - Failed USPH Sanitation Inspection

Numerous news sources are reporting that the Carnival Fantasy failed a recent sanitation inspection (on July 17, 2019) by the United States Public Health. The USPH gave the ship a score of just 77. This is the lowest sanitation score in the nearly thirty year history of this particular Carnival ship. The Carnival Fantasy failed its first sanitation inspection in March of 1990 with a score of 78. #Carnival #Fantasy #cruise ship fails health inspection…

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Carnival Victory Belches Smoke in Nassau

By Jim Walker on July 29, 2019

Air Emissions - Carnival Victory - Port of Nassau

Yesterday the webcam in the port of Nassau in the Bahamas showed the +20 year old Carnival Victory belching thick black smoke from its funnel. PTZtv which operates the webcam tweeted the two minute video with the caption “no smoke without . . . ? – – hard to imagine anything good happening here.” The video is a little deceiving as it initially shows a Royal Caribbean cruise ship (seems like the Navigator of the Seas) in…

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Is Disney Cruise Line Testing A Man Overboard System?

By Jim Walker on July 27, 2019

Fantasy 1 — Man Overboard System? - Disney Fantasy

Today a video taken by a passenger from the Disney Fantasy cruise ship was posted on Twitter. It shows a dummy tethered to a rope being dropped over the railing of a passenger balcony at the stern of the Disney ship, violently twisting at the end of the rope, and then being slowly pulled back up to the balcony. A number of other people on Twitter questioned what was happening, with many guessing that Disney may…

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Violent Brawl Breaks Out on P&O’s Britannia

By Jim Walker on July 27, 2019

A violent brawl broke out on P&O’s Britannia last night as the ship was sailing from Bergen, Norway to Southampton. A Chief Correspondent of ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Richard Gaisford, tweeted about the melee which occurred as the Britannia cruise ship was returning to the UK following a one week cruise to ports in Norway. The cruise was advertised as the “7 Night Norwegian Fjords” cruise. The Daily Mail reported that nine passengers were…

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Appellate Court: Royal Caribbean Knew of Serious Problem of Crime, Including Gang Rape of Minor, on its Cruise Ships

By Jim Walker on July 25, 2019

Today the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal published an opinion in a case where a group of passengers reportedly gang raped a heavily intoxicated minor aboard Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas. A Christmas Nightmare In December of 2015, the day before Christmas, the girl (age 15) in question boarded the Oasis of the Seas with her two sisters and grandparents. She alleged that on the first night of the seven day cruise a group…

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Automatic Man Overboard System to Be Installed on Mystery Cruise Ship

Passenger Missing From the Genting Dream

Man Overboard From the Symphony of the Seas (warning, graphic)

How Long Will the Bahamas Tolerate Carnival Trashing its Waters and Polluting its Air?

41 Year Old Woman Overboard From Princess Cruises’ Sun Princess: Coast Guard Investigates Possible Foul Play

Carnival Fantasy Flunks Sanitation Inspection

Carnival Victory Belches Smoke in Nassau

Is Disney Cruise Line Testing A Man Overboard System?

Violent Brawl Breaks Out on P&O’s Britannia

Appellate Court: Royal Caribbean Knew of Serious Problem of Crime, Including Gang Rape of Minor, on its Cruise Ships

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