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10/01/2025

Disney's Cruise Line leads all cruise lines with a per capita sexual assault rate of 75 per 100,000 passengers and crew. This is two and one-half times higher than Carnival Cruise Line and is higher than 49 out of 50 states in the U.S.

Disney Cruise Line built its reputation as the safest, most family friendly vacation at sea. The data tells a different story. According to U.S.

09/30/2025

There are many cruise apologists who often bring up stories that norovirus is often associated with hospitals, nursing homes, and daycare facilities. I have always chuckled at this thought, that places where the sick, elderly or kids with poopy diapers congregate as a comparable location as a vacation cruise.

Norovirus can strike anywhere that is crowded and people congregate. The virus is prevalent on cruise ships because of the large numbers of people living and eating in close proximity. Cruises are basically floating communities with limited space and high volume of food handling.

Ninety-eight people have fallen ill with norovirus aboard Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas, according to a CDC report on September 28th. The

09/29/2025

Everyone stayed relatively calm, compared to other similar incidents.

A proverbial "rogue wave" struck the Vision of the Seas cruise ship a week ago, on September 20th 2025, as the Royal Caribbean ship returned to Baltimore

09/27/2025

Article by Miami Herald reporter Vinod Sreeharsha.

A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami issued the ruling earlier this month. "The decision is unusual, as lawsuits against cruise companies seldom go to trial." Carnival, found liable for injuries a Miami woman suffered while on board during a fall, has been ordered to pay her nearly $350,000 in damages. Her counsel requested nearly $14,000,000 in damages. Carnival's lawyers "maintained the cruise line wasn’t at fault and passed off blame to Rondon.

The decision is unusual, as lawsuits against cruise companies seldom go to trial.

09/26/2025

Three take-aways from the most recent cruise crime data:

1. Royal Caribbean, not Carnival, leads all cruise lines in crime for the first time in almost three years.

2. Due to lobbying efforts, cruise line have no legal obligation to disclose incidents of cruise ship child po*******hy, drug smuggling, thefts when the stolen money or value of stolen items are less than $10,000, or disclose when the victims of sexual assault and r**e are children.

3. Crime is on a record pace for all cruise lines in 2025.

Royal Caribbean topped all cruise lines in crime during the second quarter of 2025, per the most recent crime report from the U.S. Department of

09/25/2025

CCL is now $30.37, NCLH is at $25.23, and RCL is at a whopping $327.03! When I originally posted this (September 2020) cruise stocks were trading as follows: CCL $13.92 / down from year high of $51.90; NCLH $14.70 / down from year high of 59.65; & RCL $60.34 / down from year high of $135.05.

Cruise Lines Going Bust Or Out Of Business? Will cruise lines be able to survive this long-lasting shutdown? What You Need To Know. I look at what cruise lin...

09/24/2025

So what legal remedy does a passenger who finds herself/himself stuck in a water slide on a cruise ship?

No, panic attacks are not recognized.

Last week, a cruise passenger on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship (some sources identify as the Norwegian Bliss) faced the indignity of becoming stuck in a

09/22/2025

A Carnival Cruise Line passenger from Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested in Miami, Florida after federal authorities found child po*******hy on his phone according to court documents. Jason Alan Miller, 48, was arrested shortly after disembarking the Carnival Horizon and was charged with possession and transportation of child po*******hy.

The local news account reported that Miller was traveling with his pregnant wife and eight children, seven of whom were adopted after previously being foster children in the Miller household. Miller had fostered over a dozen children according to local reports.

A Carnival Cruise Line passenger from Kingsport, Tennessee was arrested in Miami, Florida after federal authorities found child po*******hy on his phone

09/21/2025

Passengers, buy travel insurance!

Khiali Baxter suffered a medical emergency on a Royal Caribbean cruise from Galveston to Mexico, leaving her family with over $13,000 in medical bills.

09/21/2025

Here's a twist - "Ship Moms."

Her book's tagline - "True Tales of Love and Lust at Sea" - is probably the result of the on-board world of hectic schedules and demanding passengers.

"Part of crew life, she discovered, was hallmarked by hookups, relationships and romance — the almost inevitable byproducts of living cheek and jowl with hundreds of co-workers."

A former cruise ship worker from St. John's dives into "the floating gold mine of drama" that happens behind the scene.

09/20/2025

From 9 years ago . . .

Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas encountered high winds this morning and reportedly listed heavily. Windows in the Viking Crown Lounge broke and water flooded certain of the interior hallways. Photos taken by a passenger aboard the ship who wishes to remain anonymous.

09/20/2025

A Carnival crew member, Reza Heta Pratama, was sentenced in New Orleans by a federal district court judge for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). Pratama, a citizen of Indonesia, was arrested in July 2024 when the Carnival Valor docked in New Orleans following a cruise to Mexico last summer.

The arrest and sentencing of Pratama is to be contrasted with the current wave of Filipino crew members who find themselves harassed and deported with no evidence of crimes. The majority of the deported Filipinos were denied the right to speak with a lawyers and then accused of possession of child po*******hy usually without a shred of evidence.

Child po*******hy is a despicable crime that should be prosecuted and punished to the full extend of the law. Targeting over 100 Filipinos on what appears to be trumped up child po*******hy charges does nothing to stop the real predators like Pratama. Pratama was caught red-handed with 160 images including videos of child po*******hy which he admitted possessing on the Carnival cruise ship. Pratama is the type of person that should be targeted by CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, not hard working Filipinos.

A Carnival crew member, Reza Heta Pratama, was sentenced in New Orleans by a federal district court judge for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material

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