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A woman is suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband’s dead body. The New York Times reports Marilyn Jones, 78, and her two daughters and three grandchildren have filed a lawsuit against the cruise line, alleging the cruise ship kept Jones’ husband’s body in a drinks cooler on the ship after he died last year. Jones’ husband Robert Jones, 79, […]
A white comedian was fired after a clip surfaced of him using the N-word several times during his stand-up routine on a cruise ship. TikTok user Pamela Frilot posted a since-muted video of Rob O’Reilly performing while aboard a Carnival cruise, with the caption, “Get me off this ship!!” Frilot later elaborated on what happened during O’Reilly’s set. Additional […]
A Carnival Cruise ship en route to New York City on Tuesday was forced to dock ahead of schedule after a brawl reportedly broke out aboard the vessel. According to Pix 11, a small fight between two people broke out on the dance floor of a nightclub on the ship around 5:20 a.m., which ultimately grew […]
The United States Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard on a Carnival cruise headed for Florida. TMZ reports the vessel was on its last leg of the voyage between Grand Turk to Port Canaveral, which is east of Orlando, Florida, when the man went overboard. A passenger told the outlet that she was […]
Carnival Cruise Line is making masks optional for guests. The decision follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent easing of warnings. Masks will not be required starting March 1 following a decline in onboard COVID cases, NBC News reports. “There may, however, be certain venues and events where masks will be required,” Carnival said in […]
The cruise industry may have suffered another major blow. A day after COVID cases reached a record high, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory warning Americans about the potential dangers of cruise travel. The agency cited the recent spike in COVID-19 cases that have been reported on ships around the world. According to […]
A 15-year-old boy fell from a balcony to his death on a cruise ship returning to Miami this past week in what authorities suspect was a suicide. According to what the Miami-Dade Police Department told People, the unidentified teenager jumped from a high balcony on the MSC Cruise ship that had just completed a five-night trip in the Bahamas […]
Security on a cruise ship found 69.5 pounds of cocaine stashed on board last week. Upon docking the vessel at a port in Florida, they turned it over to officers for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to a statement from that agency. CBP officers who were stationed at the Port Everglades seaport were alerted about garbage […]
Cruise ships were the site of a number of massive COVID-19 outbreaks at the start of the pandemic last year. Now, even with strict COVID health and safety policies, it appears that two passengers have tested positive for the virus on a fully vaccinated Royal Caribbean ship, People reports. The Celebrity Millennium left St. Maarten on […]
5 passengers have tested positive for coronavirus while on the first cruise ship to resume sailing in the Caribbean since the start of the pandemic, CNBC reports. Torbjorn Lund, captain of the SeaDream I, made the announcement of the first positive test on Wednesday through a ship wide address where he asked all 53 passengers […]
