Personal Injury Law

'We've got to find out what happened': Parents' desperation over missing Disney cruise girl

Posted on March 28, 2011
The parents of a 24-year-old cruise ship worker who vanished from the vessel in the Caribbean said they 'had to find out what has happened' to their daughter. Their desperate plea for information came as it emerged their daughter made a phone call to a friend from the ship shortly before being reported missing...

Young woman vanishes on Disney cruise ship

Posted on March 28, 2011
A young English woman has disappeared the night after reporting for work onboard a Disney cruise ship. Rebecca Coriam's family said the 24-year-old could not have fallen overboard accidentally and they believed "something bad must have happened to her", the Daily Mail reports...

Sick woman airlifted from cruise liner Rhapsody of the Seas off Gold Coast

Posted on March 26, 2011
AN unwell 60-year-old woman has been winched by helicopter from a cruise ship off the Queensland coast. The Sydney woman was aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas liner, which had departed Sydney and was 40 kilometres off the southern Gold Coast, when she began feeling unwell...

Princess Cruises Captain Peter Russell

Posted on March 26, 2011
In what has to be one of the most disturbing emails I have received during my time with Cruise Bruise, a Ships Officer with Princess Cruise Lines contacted me recently to first expose the alleged cover up by the company concerning one of their own Captains appetite for sexual depravity with minors...

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Cruise Ship Sexual Assault - Princess Cruises Captain Sex Assault On Child In Cabin

Posted on March 26, 2011
Imagine, if you dare, that your child is sleeping in the cabin next door. You are within earshot of those all too-thin walls. She is tucked in, the cabin door is locked and everyone in your family is asleep. You feel as secure as you do at home, you in the master bedroom, your child in her bedroom next door, or down the hall...

US authorities search for missing Disney cruise ship member

Posted on March 25, 2011
A SEARCH was underway today for a Disney cruise ship employee who vanished at sea. The unidentified woman failed to appear for her Tuesday shift on the Disney Wonder, which was three days into a week-long cruise from Los Angeles down Mexico's Pacific coast, KABC said...

Man evacuated from cruise ship

Posted on March 20, 2011
Tampa Bay - Coast Guard rescuers evacuated a 76-year-old man from the cruise ship Radiance of the Seas early Sunday morning. Coast Guard officials say the man fell ill onboard the ship that was about 76 miles southwest of Tampa Bay. The man was hoisted onboard a Coast Guard helicopter just before 3 a...

After recent violent crimes, cruise lines remove Mazatlan from ports-of-call

Posted on March 17, 2011
They hoped that it wouldn't happen, but the worst-case scenario has become reality for the port of Mazatlan with the departure of both Holland America Lines and Princess Cruises for the remainder of the winter/early spring cruise travel season. After the departure of Disney Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Lines and Carnival Cruises after cruise passengers were mugged and robbed near the pier in the Pacific Coast resort city, Mazatlan officials were hopeful that their commitment to improved security would keep at least some of the cruise lines in town for the season...

CG medevacs woman from cruise ship

Posted on March 10, 2011
59-year old taken to Sentara Norfolk General PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) - The Coast Guard says it medevaced a 59-year old woman from a cruise ship off the Virginia coast to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital on Thursday. The woman, along with a nurse from aboard the ship, were transported via a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Royal Caribbean's "Explorer of the Seas," which was located 230 miles east of Cape Henry...

Cruise ship woman critical

Posted on March 07, 2011
A woman remains in a critical condition in Tasmania's Royal Hobart Hospital after being winched from the deck of a cruise ship anchored in Wineglass Bay on the state's east coast. Constable Michael Preshaw from Police, Search and Rescue says the woman's medical condition was life threatening...

Man Airlifted To Hospital From Cruise Ship

Posted on March 05, 2011
A 68-year-old man experiencing chest pains was airlifted from a cruise ship 140 miles out to sea on Saturday, authorities said. San Diego Harbor Police received a report of the man's condition just after 2:30 a.m. from the ship, Rotterdam, which was 140 miles offshore, according to Allyson Conroy, a Coast Guard spokeswoman...

Man who lost foot in boating mishap from Bonita Springs

Posted on February 28, 2011
A 69-year-old Bonita Springs man continued to recover tonight after losing his left foot in a boating mishap earlier in the day. Rosario Pucciarelli was swimming off Vanderbilt Beach in North Naples at about 11 a.m. when a charter boat headed for shore struck him, severing his foot...

Cruise Ship Crime: 'He Raped Me'

Posted on February 21, 2011
Teen Speaks Out About Statutory Rape by Carnival Cruise Employee When Darla and Enoch, who asked that their last names not be used, took their then 14-year-old daughter on an eight-day Caribbean cruise, the family never expected their dream vacation would turn into a nightmare...

Girl, 14, loses leg following boating accident

Posted on February 08, 2011
A 14-year-old girl in the US is to have her leg amputated after it got caught in a boat?s propeller A young girl is expected to lose her leg following a horrific accident in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Saturday. According to the Palm Beach Post, Gabby Desouza is due to undergo surgery to remove her leg today following the incident...

Cruise Ship Entertainer Dies in Cozumel

Posted on February 07, 2011
A Royal Caribbean International crewmember was found dead in Mexico's Cozumel over the weekend, it has been reported. 32-year-old Monika Markiewicz, a Polish national who was a musician aboard Allure of the Seas, left the ship Friday in Cozumel to head to the beach and never returned...

Coast Guard medevacs passenger from cruise ship Oosterdam

Posted on February 07, 2011
An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Sector San Diego medically evacuated a passenger from a cruise ship 250 miles southwest of San Diego Sunday evening. Just after noon, the crew of the cruise ship Oosterdam notified the Coast Guard that the 65-year-old man needed immediate medical assistance...

Sailor Accused of Cruise Ship Sex Attack

Posted on February 04, 2011
A 40-year-old Filipino sailor faced charges of sexual assault in Magistrates Court this morning [Feb 4]. The defendant, who is not a resident of Bermuda, is accused of attacking a woman on board a cruise ship in December of 2010. The defendant, who was accompanied by a female friend in court, was represented by lawyer Kendrick James...

Coast Guard airlifts cruise ship passenger

Posted on February 01, 2011
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - The crew of an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter medically evacuated a woman from cruise ship Westerdam Sunday, approximately 95 nautical miles northwest of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The 63-year-old woman is a U.S. citizen, who was suffering from a ruptured appendix requiring immediate medical attention ashore...

Passenger on storm-tossed cruise says event led to wife's death

Posted on February 01, 2011
A taxi driver from Scotland who was aboard Royal Caribbean's Brilliance of the Seas in December when it was rocked violently by extreme winds and waves says the heavily publicized event led to his wife's death. John Davey tells the UK's Mirror his wife, Barbara Davey, fell into a coma three days after being thrown about her cabin during the incident...

Burned Man Rescued Off SF Coast

Posted on February 01, 2011
The U.S Coast Guard rescued a crewmember from a ship en route to Panama on Sunday, after he was burned by one of the ships boilers three days earlier. An air station crew medically evacuated the 46-year-old man following a call from the vessel's crew on Jan...

Passenger dies after cruise ship sails into 80mph storm

Posted on January 30, 2011
A cruise passenger died from a brain haemorrhage after her ship was hit by a horrific 80mph storm. Barbara Davey fell into a coma three days after being thrown about in her cabin when giant waves battered Royal Caribbean cruise liner Brilliance of the Seas in the Mediterranean...

Cruise ships canceling Mazatlan stop, citing crime

Posted on January 27, 2011
Some cruise ship companies are canceling stops in the Mexican Pacific port of Mazatlan and others are considering it due to crime against tourists. Disney Wonder has dropped calls to Mazatlan from its seven-night Mexican Riviera tour and replaced them with an additional stop in Cabo San Lucas on the Baja California peninsula...

Police investigate cruise ship death

Posted on January 09, 2011
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Cruise ship crew member drowns

Posted on January 08, 2011
A lifeboat is still dangling off the side of a cruise ship, moored at Christchurch's Port Lyttelton, after a cable broke sending two crew members into the water, with one of the men www.odt.co.nz

Coast Guard medevacs crewmember from cruise ship

Posted on January 06, 2011
SAN DIEGO?A MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Sector San Diego medically evacuated a crewmember from a cruise ship 250 miles southwest of San Diego late Monday night. Just after 2 p.m., the crew of the cruise ship Crystal Symphony notified the Coast Guard that the 39-year-old Filipino crewmember needed immediate medical assistance for an www...

Cruise ship worker drowns at Port Everglades

Posted on January 03, 2011
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Police are investigating the drowning of a cruise ship worker at Port Everglades. Police and fire rescue officials responded to a call about 6:50 p.m. Sunday. The man, whose identity has not been released, apparently drowned...

FBI ends investigation in cruise ship death

Posted on January 02, 2011
MIAMI (AP) ? The FBI has ended its investigation into the disappearance of a woman who fell from a cruise ship two years ago, citing insufficient evidence to prove a crime was committed. An FBI spokesmans said Tuesday the agency had been looking into what happened on Christmas night 2008 when 36-year-old Jennifer Ellis-Seitz of Winter Haven allegedly fell from a balcony of the Miami-based Norwegian Pearl...

Cruise ship crewman from India shot in St. Maarten

Posted on December 30, 2010
Police in St. Maarten say a cruise ship crew member has been shot in an attempted robbery. Police spokesman Ricardo Henson says the victim was from India and works on board the Aurora. His wounds are not life threatening. The attack occurred on Wednesday near two brothels in the former Dutch Caribbean colony...

Sick Man Evacuated From Cruise Ship In Tasman Sea

Posted on December 29, 2010
Two helicopters were used to rescue a sick 80-year-old man from a cruise ship in the Tasman Sea yesterday. The helicopters were sent from Te Anau to carry out the medical evacuation from the cruise liner Silver Shadow after the man suffered "some sort of medical event", Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand spokeswoman Sophie Hazelhurst said...

Coast Guard medevacs 1 from cruise ship near Cape Fear River, N.C.

Posted on December 24, 2010
PORTSMOUTH, Va. ? The Coast Guard medically evacuated a man after receiving a call for assistance from a cruise ship near the entrance to the Cape Fear River, N.C., Sunday. At approximately 12:30 p.m. watchstanders at the Coast Guard?s 5th District command center in Portsmouth received a call from a crewmember aboard the Norwegian Gem stating that there was a 77 year-old male apparently suffering from acute pulmonary edema...

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