4:45pm UPDATE: Check out these new photos from Andrew Lock, who was a passenger on board the Silver Shadow… 3:20pm UPDATE: The Silversea Shadow is docked in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. The line reports that the Shadow only sustained minor damage. Silversea has now opened a full investigation into the accident. 12:00PM UPDATE: Silversea has released […]
Professor Ross Klein’s website CruiseJunkie contains disturbing comments from a cruise passenger aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship who reports that on December 15th during a sailing to the Mexican Riviera a gruesome physical altercation took place in cabin 1306. Here are the comments: “Wild, out-of-control alcohol-fueled domestic fight – starts at 9PM, escalates to most certainly a felony assault (or worse) by 3AM. All kinds […]
The Virgin Islands Daily News reports today that the U.S. Coast Guard continues to investigate the fatal parasailing accident in St. Thomas which killed a Celebrity Cruises passenger and seriously injured her daughter on November 15, 2011. We discussed this incident in our article Celebrity Cruises Passenger Killed in Parasailng Accident in St. Thomas. The incidents resulted in the death of Bernice […]
Norwegian Cruise Line is the latest of four lines to cancel parasailing trips in St. Thomas, following an accident that killed one passenger and left another critically injured. Norwegian has decided to suspend all such excursions Caribbean-wide. Carnival Cruise Lines has also canceled its parasailing excursions in St. Thomas, and Celebrity Cruises has canceled its similar trips in the Caribbean indefinitely. Royal […]
Celebrity Cruises has canceled all parasailing trips in the Caribbean — indefinitely — following an accident in St. Thomas that left one passenger dead and another critically injured. Royal Caribbean, Celebrity’s sister line, has followed suit. A 60-year-old passenger sailing on Celebrity Eclipse, who the Virgin Island Daily News identified as Bernice Kraftcheck, 60, died as a […]
A news source in the U.S. Virgin Islands reports that two passengers from the Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship were involved in a serious para sailing accident on Tuesday in St. Thomas. The incident occurred late Tuesday afternoon while the passengers were on an excursion. One of the passengers died, and the other was seriously injured and remains hospitalized. There are comments […]