Three individuals were airlifted via helicopter from two separate cruise ships owned by P&O Cruises, a company owned by Miami, Florida-based Carnival Corporation. The flights occurred in a window shorter than 24 hours last Wednesday, September 28. One of the victims incurred a serious head injury while on-board one of the ships. According to the rescue team from Brisbane, Australia, […]
More than a month after an accident occurred during a cruise ship safety drill on Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.'s Norwegian Breakaway in Bermuda, a second crew member involved in the accident lost his life. Crew member Ben Buenaventura, a Filipino national, who was in the intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital since the incident, […]
Two ship officers aboard a Viking River Cruise ship lost their lives after the ship hit a low bridge on Main-Donau-Kanal in Erlangen last Sunday, September 11 at around 1:30 a.m. The Viking Freya was headed for Budapest when the incident occurred, according to gCaptain. In a statement, Viking River Cruises said: “We are heartbroken, and […]
Over 500 passengers and crew members were evacuated from a cruise ship in Puerto Rico last month after it caught fire. Although no one reported life-threatening injuries or fatalities, many required medical attention. United States Coast Guard boats brought passengers and crew members into the San Juan harbor just as the fires continued to ravage […]
Spirit of Baltimore's Inner Harbor cruise ship crashed into a pier at Fells Point in the city of Baltimore, Maryland while it was on its way back to berth at the end of a midnight cruise last Sunday, August 28. The ship suffering from minor damage and caused around 60 feet to be ripped from […]
The United States Coast Guard reported that Boston Harbor Cruises' cruise ship, Regency, struck two other cruise ships that belonged to the same company last Saturday, August 13. The ships were stationed at the Long Wharf pier when the accident occurred. According to the Coast Guard, the Regency was coming to port at Long Wharf […]
Officials on board the Celebrity Sumnmit cruise ship decided to return to Bermuda on July 22 after a cruise ship passenger was injured. Pilot boat St. David assisted the cruise ship with retrieving the injured man by rendezvousing with Celebrity Summit around 9:30 p.m. in the waters off the east end. The pilot boat docked at Ordnance […]
A 41-year-old Filipino crewman on Bermuda-incorporated, Miami, Florida-based Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.'s Norwegian Breakaway lost his life after he fell overboard during a safety training drill while the ship was anchored at King's Wharf in Dockyard in Hamilton, Bermuda on Wednesday, July 20. The victim was one of four crew members who were taken […]
On Saturday, July 16, a cruise ship owned by the Iquito, Peru-based Aqua Expeditions exploded on the port of Iquitos, causing the death of seven crewmen and injuring 13 other individuals. According to preliminary investigations, the tourist boat was being refueled near the banks of the River Itaya in the province of Loreto when the […]
Miami, Florida-based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.'s 4,905-passenger Anthem of the Seas, which was heading on a one-week itinerary to Bermuda and the Caribbean from Bayonne in Hudson County, New Jersey, recently had an eight-year-old passenger who fell into an indoor swimming pool and nearly drowned, reports from the United States Coast Guard showed. The child […]