The travel world was shocked earlier this month when an 18 month old girl fell from a cruise ship’s 11th floor to her death. Initial reports indicated that the girl’s grandfather may have accidentally dropped the girl from the ship either because he was playfully holding her over the side or because he tripped and…

Yesterday we blogged about how the political unrest in Puerto Rico caused Royal Caribbean to cancel a scheduled stop on the island. The island’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló, is under fire by the territory’s residents after insensitive text messages between him and members of his inner circle were made public. Initially, Royal Caribbean only cancelled one…

The ongoing unrest in San Juan, Puerto Rico has caused Royal Caribbean to cancel a scheduled stop at the island. The Miami Herald reports that the Port Authority of Puerto Rico announced the cancellation on Tuesday. After confirming that the Empress of the Seas cruise ship would not be calling on Puerto Rico as previously…

A week after an 18 month old toddler fell to her death from the Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas cruise ship, police in Puerto Rico are investigating possible negligence by the cruise line.   RTV6 reports that the Puerto Rican police are looking into many possibilities, including that the cruise company may have played…

Cruise injury attorney Jack Hickey issued the following statement on Sunday’s tragic fall of a toddler from a cruise ship.  “This is a horrible tragedy onboard this ship. It is a reminder that these ships are very much like tall buildings except these buildings move in every direction with the seas and with its own…

In the hours following the death of an 18 month old toddler, who fell from a cruise ship over the weekend, reports indicated that her grandfather had been involved in her death. While some reports said that he had accidentally dropped her from the 11th floor of the ship after he slipped, other reports indicated…

Over the weekend, an 18 month old girl named Chloe tragically fell to her death from a cruise ship window as the ship was at harbor in Puerto Rico. The girl’s grandfather, who was holding her just before her fall, is currently under investigation. But in a recent interview the family blames the cruise company…

Today more information about the toddler who died after falling from a cruise ship was released.  The girl was being carried by her grandfather, as the family sailed aboard the Freedom of the Seas cruise ship. After she slipped from her grandfather’s hands the toddler fell from the 11th floor of the ship to her…

As of this morning, the U.S. Coast Guard continued to search for the missing cruise ship crew member, who fell into the sea from a Carnival cruise ship earlier this week.  .@USCG continues to search for the crewmember that fell overboard from the Carnival Victory yesterday. pic.twitter.com/3jxdt0bJGP — USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) July 5, 2019   The…

Two days ago we blogged about Norwegian Cruise Line’s decision to cancel a Mediterranean itinerary, scheduled to set sail today, due to mechanical problems. Many of the passengers who were going to sail on the ship had already arrived to Rome in anticipation of their embarkation. Now, those passengers find themselves essentially stranded, as they had…

A cruise ship crew member has reported fallen overboard from the ship on which he works, prompting a search which is currently ongoing.  Local10.com reports that the worker fell from the Carnival Victory cruise ship as it was returning to port at Miami, as the vessel was about 30 miles off the coast of Cuba.…

Norwegian Cruise Line is issuing an apology to its customers after mechanical issues with one of its ships caused a significant change in the vessel’s itinerary, and caused the company to cancel a future itinerary. In a statement the company said that the Norwegian Pearl “experienced a mechanical issue which necessitates that she travel at…

BusinessInsider.com reports that, in a recently released report ranking cruise companies’ pollution practices, giants Carnival and Royal Caribbean rank near the worst. The report was issued by environmental watchdog Friends of Earth,and graded 16 cruise lines on their overall pollution practices, including “how they treat their sewage, the steps they’ve taken to limit air pollution…

After suffering from an injury on a cruise ship, you may be wondering if, instead of hiring a lawyer, you can send a letter to the cruise company as a demand for compensation. In the following video cruise injury attorney Jack Hickey discusses why this may not be such a good idea. Hickey says: The…

A floatplane crashed in Alaska on Thursday, landing between two cruise ships and leaving one person hospitalized. CruiseHive.com reports that the crash landing happened in the busy cruise port of Ketchikan, Alaska, the same location where six people were killed in a tragic collision of two floatplanes carrying cruise passengers in May.  Thursday’s crash involved…

In April a judge took Carnival Cruise Corporation’s top executives to task for repeatedly dumping pollution into the sea, despite being on probation for pollution. According to a Miami New Times report the company’s top executives were nearly thrown in jail by the judge, who had become increasingly frustrated with the executive’s failure to stop…

The Carnival Ecstasy returned to its home port of Jacksonville, Florida today, after dozens of the ship’s passengers were hurt in a serious vehicle crash earlier this week.  On Monday 32 of the Ecstasy’s passengers were hurt when a bus in which they were traveling crashed in the Bahamas. The passengers were on a shore…

A day after several cruise ship passengers were injured in a van crash on the island of St. Maarten, another crash has left several cruise travelers injured in the Bahamas. Local 10.com reports that the crash occurred when a bus carrying 32 passengers from the Carnival Ecstasy cruise ship flipped on its side as the…

Several cruise passengers were injured when the van in which they were riding plunged into the sea over the weekend. CruiseHive.com reports that the passengers were traveling on the Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas and had left the ship when it docked in Philipsburg, St. Maarten. The group was traveling in a van when,…