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One passenger overboard early this morning Carnival Liberty cruise ship by several sources According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution a man of 32 years of Georgia went too far from the Liberty about May 00 a m this morning.
According to the cruise expert, Dr. Ross Klein there were 290 people who spent overboard cruise ships since 2000. According to these data, there were more people over ships cruise operated by Carnival cruise Lines than any other cruise line in the past decade as the table shows, there were 60 people who went over ships Carnival cruise Lines.
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In a cruel history strangely, the 360 just covered the massacre Caribbean by cruise passengers witnesses of what has been described as the cruise ship TUI Thomson Discovery of two killer whales in the waters of St. Vincent.
Whale watching tours conducted by the tour company St Vincent Fantasea involving passengers TUI cruise ship guests delighted first cruise when they were directed at the sight of a pod of four Orcas commonly known as orcas But cruise excursion turned into a bloody tragedy felled two fishermen of whales off the coast of St. Vincent.
The article said that cruise lines were visibly shaken and crying after many fishermen on a boat, equipped with a spear gun device mounted on its bow, blasted killer whales as they swam in the waters before passengers cruise enjoying their trip.
Commentators said that if hunting remains a legal practice in St. Vincent, there is nothing traditional people using guns for motor boats killing whales.
Killer whales have been cut them, fried and sold to locals on the beach.
The horrible scene reminds me of the disgusting slaughter of whales in the Faroe Islands that I have written extensively.
St Vincent has a despicable history to kill humpback whales and marketing of beef Saint Vincent Caribbean receives support from Japan and vote with Japan at the International Whaling Commission to continue the hunt.
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One of the first articles I wrote when I started this blog almost eight years there has been the death of the High Seas Act DOHSA, as it is commonly called, is one of the most cruel and the most unjust, if not completely ruthless laws imaginable when an adult child loses a parent in offshore defined as outside the territorial waters of the State of the United States, including the rivers and waters of foreign countries, the law allows, at best, only the resumption of monetary financial losses, such as lost wages assuming the person is employed If the person is retired, the only authorized damage costs to bury their loved emotional damages such as pain , grief, anguish, sadness and suffering are prohibited.
The article titled The Death of the High Seas Act - screwing American passengers for 89 years, he explains how families are not compensated because DOHSA prohibits non-pecuniary damages when their relatives die in international waters Cruise lines like DOSHA cruise lines have lobbied heavily over the years to maintain the ancient maritime law on the books DOSHA punishes families when they lose a parent or a child, deep sea, despite the negligence of a cruise line.
Today Jill and Kelly Hammer, girls Larry and Cristy Hammer recalled the cruelty of DOSHA when several newspapers covered the latest developments regarding their deceased parents, that the operator of La Estrella was amazonica gross negligence and caused the fire that killed the Hammers as they slept in their cabins on Estrella amazonica a cruise ship on the Peruvian Amazon Sá This sad story we wrote earlier last year - Amazon river deadly fire update international shipments Estrella Photos amazonica and video.
La Estrella Amazonica was renowned for international shipments as Amazon Star.
The article in the Wall Street Journal today, when people die at sea, cruise operators are often a Pass subscription that although the title suggests that cruise operators become literally with, if not murder, criminal negligence deadly Another Article published by the World -Herald Office, entitled Report on Gretna couple died in fire cruise ship with defects Finds boat safety features, crew training comes to the same conclusion.
You can read these articles and make your own mind about the conditions were dangerous on board La Estrella amazonica The lack of training and qualification of the crew and the underhanded conduct of the owner and operator of river cruise ship, international shipments and its president, Van Perry, whose subscribers and demanded that Jill Kelley agree to a gag order that they rejected before the cruise operator to meet and talk about the circumstances surrounding the death of their parents.
The point to come away with after reading this ordeal is that this is exactly the result that the cruise lines want after the cruise passengers were killed Christina Perez, head of public relations for the Cruise Line International Association CLIA was quoted in the Wall Street Journal saying that if DOHSA was amended to allow fair compensation mass foreign litigants would burden American legal system already overloaded, it resorted to other scare tactics, saying that rates insurance for cruise ships would skyrocket, rising prices and potentially jeopardize thousands of jobs created by the industry.
This is hardly true The cruise industry is a rich company a billion dollars, which is CEO regularly collect tens of millions of dollars a year, and which registers its cruise ships in the country foreigners like the Bahamas and Panama, in order to avoid taxes, labor laws and safety regulations of the U S.
Perez later contradicts himself by saying that Congress U S did not change DOHSA to allow further damage as it did in the case of aviation because the shipping industry has a superior safety record.
CLIA has paid around 30 million in the pockets of Congress in the last decade, according to the Wall Street Journal, to maintain law DOHSA he loves.
The cruise industry in fact had many more deaths on their vessels the fleet of commercial aviation in the United States in the last decade, although commercial airlines carrying over 30 times more passengers annually Read our article cruise ships there several years the Deadliest Form of public transport.
USA Today published an article today Guide USA TODAY Cruise Ship rewards costs.
This is a subject that we write about often enough, as the cruise lines try to maintain their high profits while still building more large cruise ships that are more expensive to operate.
Any discussion on tips for cruise ships really involves three questions, in my opinion 1 cruise lines dictate that everyone pay a gratuity to a certain amount, regardless of the level of services, two cruise lines are diverting the amounts paid in tips to fund the salaries of crew backstage as cooks, cleaners, etc. that do not usually receive gratuities, or 3 and cruise lines are diverting income paid in tips in profits lines cruise.
The article addresses the first issue head and points to the general belief of the public that tipping is a personal matter that should be left to the passengers Many critics of mandatory automatic gratuities say that a tip has to be earned; if the client receives excellent service, they sometimes longer than recommended tip, but if the client believes that the service is bad, they will pay less or perhaps nothing at all.
But many members of the crew, such as servers or flight attendants receive no salary they earn 100 passengers from tips of revenue for the longest time, Royal Caribbean has paid his waiters and cabin crew received a salary of only 50 per month, although it is hard work and cabin crew servers motivated could collect thousands of dollars a month from tips But the tips are tighter now, with automatic gratuities, less likely ending up with the servers and attendants It is unfair for them to work for a pittance.
Many cruise lines allow customers to adjust or remove the tips while they are NCL ship urges customers to go through an expensive process of filling out forms after the cruise before gratification can be lowered or withdrawn on board.
Many crew members complain that many passengers waiting for the last day of a cruise to eliminate all gratuities of their bills.
Last year, members of the crew Carnival released a Facebook note down since then indicating the redacted names and Carnival passenger cabin numbers that have removed their automatic hints Some of these people may have removed the pre-paid gratuities and money, but many may have stiffed the crew.
The real problem I see is that cruise lines are not being transparent with who exactly receives automatic gratuities Article USA TODAY wrote that cruise lines say that increased gratuities will be provided to the crew in recognition their service, but many guests do not want to tip the crew that never see as a kitchen worker many also believe that cruise lines should pay their crewmembers decent wages and do not require the passengers to be responsible for the salary of the crew.
Article USA TODAY addresses this issue, writes that some see the charges as a thinly disguised method for cruise lines to push the responsibility to pay the crew their customers disguising the real purpose of a bonus is a type of fraud in my opinion, where a guest cruise may believe he or she pays the additional tip their wonderful server or a cabin attendant who went beyond their family for a week, but the reality is that their tips are spread throughout the housekeeping room and dining room departments to pay salaries and for other services, according to Carnival Carnival See the explanation of where the advice go here; and explanation of Royal Caribbean here; NCL does not disclose in detail what I can tell, the item USA TODAY said that up to 95 to pay for some cruise ship workers now automatic gratuities, according cruisecritic.
And do we really trust that cruise companies are pocketing gratuities as part of sales on board business section USA TODAY does not touch the subject Over 25 million people will sail on cruise ships this year While the luxury lines like Azamara, Crystal, Seabourn, Regent and SeaDream not charge automatic gratuities, ground lines like Carnival, NCL and Royal Caribbean do if 15 million passengers are charged at a rate of several hundreds of dollars per week in automatic gratuities, there are hundreds of millions of dollars to play during a year Carnival load an average of over 360 a week for a family of four staying in a standard cabin.
NCL CEO Frank Del Rio said during an earnings conference in 2015 that for every dollar collected in a tip up, NCL gains an additional 15 million anyone really think the crew members enjoy the extra income.
Between the cruise executives greedy and avaricious who abduct passengers gratuities, the crew work hard seem to be stuck between a rock and a hard place.
April 3, 2017 Update A crew member wrote today, to say Yes cruise lines away tips to pay the salaries of even the managers they use tips to pay the bar manager, manager bar asst, chief housekeeper, housekeepers ASST manager and food and beverage manager - they all get a slice of advice.
Yesterday, a crew member apparently overboard the Costa Deliziosa according to the website of the cruise expert, Dr. Ross Klein.
The Deliziosa was at the end of his Atlantic crossing heading towards the Canary Islands.
The information was forwarded to Dr. Klein a person aboard the Costa cruise ship that wishes to remain anonymous.
There was no information on the circumstances surrounding the disappearance.
AIS monitoring sites show the cruise ship to what appears to be maneuvering to trace its journey in the Atlantic to search for the man.
There were 290 people who have gone overboard since 2000, according to Dr. Klein's website.
Costa has not made an official statement about the incident so far.
Update a reader brought to my attention that this incident was released yesterday on a Dutch site with photos The site says that the crew has gone too far to 6 pm 00 The vessel apparently sailed before and had turn around and sail and- three hours back to where the crew member went too far delayed the search failed a Portuguese aircraft assisted in the search, according to Article .
GENOA March 30, 2017, around 10 am local time on March 29, 2017, while Costa Deliziosa was on a transatlantic repositioning cruise to Europe from the United States, one crew member was reported missing following the standard procedure, command ship Costa Crociere headquarters notified and implemented a full search-boat when the crewman was not located on board the ship turned around and started search operations and rescue and informed the maritime rescue nearest recovery Center, which sent a research aircraft in the region.
Late in the night of March 29, MRCC released Costa Deliziosa research and the ship continued to its next call for Santa Cruz, Tenerife Customers were informed throughout the Costa day is in contact with all relevant authorities and his care team is to help the crew member's family.
2260 passenger Costa Deliziosa is on a transatlantic cruise of 24 days from Port Everglades, Florida, Venice, Italy.
The anthem of the sea experiencing propulsion problems, which requires a slight change in its current route as the popular RCL Blog The ship will remain in Nassau, for two days, where repairs will be attempted to correct the problem.
The issue of propulsion problems is apparently due to an electrical problem in one of the nacelle systems The anthem has been reduced speed cruising on this trip AIS show that navigates between 15 and 17 knots.
Last February, the anthem of the seas met a great storm after leaving Bayonne, NJ The Coast Guard announced that one of the two azipods malfunctioned during the storm and that the hymn returned to port in New Jersey with one operating propulsion unit of the Coast Guard vessel said that during the storm the azipod port, which is a component of the propulsion system of the ship burned, the four clutches Royal Caribbean, which initially denied any damage or injury or ship passengers and said that the only cosmetic damage to the ship was forced to try to quickly replace the claws on the windfall azipod before next cruise ship cruise line also decided clutch starboard azipod also had to be replaced as a precaution, raising the possibility that he also suffered damage during the storm.
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The mysterious case of Amy Lynn Bradley cruise passengers is again in the news.
Amy was traveling with his brother and parents when she disappeared 19 years ago while on board the cruise ship Royal Caribbean Rhapsody of the Seas The ship had left Oranjestad and sailing at Cura ao in the Netherlands Antilles March 24, 1998, at the age of 23, Amy disappeared.
The Bradley family was very critical of Royal Caribbean, which they blamed for the delay in responding to the incident and what they saw as insensitivity to their situation Like most disappearances at sea, the cruise line the survey seemed designed to protect the image of the cruise line and the legal interests of the FBI investigation, as usual, went nowhere.
The disappearance of Amy in 1998 took place six to seven years before the high-profile cases of Merrian Carver in 2004 and George Smith IV in 2005, before the formation of the international cruise Organization of the victims, and before five hearings Congress which led to the adoption of the cruise ship safety and the 2010 security Act, the Bradleys were fighting alone largely cruise line.
The FBI page contains this description of Amy Lynn Bradley case, during a family cruise in the Caribbean, has disappeared from the Royal Caribbean International Cruise Line Rhapsody of the Seas On Saturday, March 21, 1998, the ship left San Juan, Puerto Rico, and goes to his first port of call, Aruba Monday, March 23, 1998, Rhapsody of the Seas left Aruba and was traveling in international waters to its next port of the island of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles in the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 24, 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley disappeared ship later left Curacao and went to the island of St Martin Sint Maarten and went to St. Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States before returning to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, March 28, 1998.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to 25,000 for information leading to the recovery of Amy Lynn Bradley and information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person responsible for her disappearance .
Celebrity Cruises announced it was canceling April 8, 2017 Celebrity Summit cruise aboard and shortens April 17, 2017 cruise from seven to four days, passengers show Celebrity offers cruise credit of 25 and 200 per person to go to re-air ticket booking We received this message to inform changes this past weekend.
There are about 4000 passengers who have just had their holiday ruined spring Seems Celebrity Summit is having difficulty achieving full cruising speed and cancels the cruise just two weeks, with a horrible offer compensation The ship had ports reduces the time port for a few weeks because he's hobbling, while celebrity said people don t worry, no security problems here so now they completely canceled 7 days of San Juan on April 8, 17 and reduces the April 15, 17 cruise for 7 days go to San Juan just 4 days, she seems to be in dry dock for 10 days.
Imagine flying to San Juan for a 4 day cruise The only compensation of the ticket is 200 per person, which is ridiculous You would think they would work with each passenger to get booked on another cruise for this week but passengers say that this is not the case they got an email saying that you completely cancel or you are now on a mini-cruise and we will refund via the onboard credit calculated daily rate in proportion to your beautiful seven days is now a mini four days'm not on this cruise but personally cruise Critic has son and every call made as well and it is obvious that there are many people crazy so if everyone keeps their ticket to plane and continues this 4 mini-cruise days, they have to find a hotel for 3 nights in San Juan for Easter week which is vulgarly expensive these passengers ask it do most do not seem to realize that they have little to no rights.
The Summit is apparently suffering from a reduction in propulsion that affected some of its previous cruises.
Passengers booked on these cruises are now expressing their natural frustration of trying to find an alternative holiday at the last minute in high season when hotel costs and theft are significantly higher Many people have asked us for advice if Unfortunately this is legal, legislation that the advocacy group cruise passenger rights managed to get is very limited and does not provide legal remedy in these circumstances it is, nothing that certainly benefits someone else the cruise line in the ticket issued to passengers.
In practice, the passengers concerned are likely to lose at least a minimum of 1 000 each in airfare and hotel costs since there are thousands of affected passengers, these new and unexpected expenses will likely total well several million.
It is illusory to think that the cruise industry, which is bent on maximizing profits, despite the huge profits they collect, offer more than the nominal cruise credit and the minimum amount of 200 flights of a person.
Cruise lines remind passengers that they should always consider the applicable purchase insurance for this type of event.
March 29, 2017 Updated Several readers brought to my attention that this is not the first time that the summit had to change his itinerary due to propulsion problems A seven-day Alaska cruise was canceled back in September 2004 when Celebrity put the dry dock ship for passengers repairs having booked on the canceled cruise received a full refund and a future free cruise More recently, Celebrity has delayed the start of the cruise of 27 March on the summit of San Juan because of problems with the propulsion system of the vessel, which forced Summit navigating at reduced speed the ship had been docked three days in Cozumel earlier this month while repair efforts have been attempted.
propulsion problems are relatively common in the cruise industry last year nineteen cruise ships have experienced propulsion problems that have disrupted and delayed cruises.
Today, the blog RCL reported that the anthem of the sea sailing at a reduced speed due to propulsion problems.
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