The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 170 people on the Radiance of the Seas were sickened with diarrhea and abdominal cramps among other gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. The CDC reports that during the last cruise (September 20th– September 27th), 167 out of 2,172 (7.69%) passengers reported being ill during the voyage
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Adult Passenger Arrested For Sexually Assaulting Minor on MSC Seascape
An adult cruise passenger, identified as Yorkiss Yazbek Montalvo Ramos, age 35, of Reynosa, Mexico, was arrested last weekend on a charge of lewd and lascivious touching of a minor after he grabbed a 17-year-old male’s penis while they were onboard the MSC Seascape, according to Miami’s Local 10 News.
Sexual crime on a 17 year-old boy on the MSC Seascape #cruise ship🚢via @MSCCruisesUSA @MSC_Cruises_UK cc: @MSCCruises_PR #CruiseNews
Yorkiss Yazbek Montalvo Ramos, age 35, was arrested Saturday on a charge of lewd & lascivious assault of a minor‼️⛔️ https://t.co/p1Grm7MQSe
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) September 24, 2024
Miami-Dade police said…
Center for Disease Control: 75 People Sickened on P&O’s Arcadia
Seventy-five people (65 guests and 10 crew members) were sick with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms on the Arcadia cruise ship when the P&O Cruises ship arrived in the port of New York this week.
The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated that 3.32% (65) of the 1,959 guests and 1.25% (10)…
Crew Member Arrested for Child Pornography – 17th Cruise Ship Employee Arrested in Last Seven Months
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a cruise ship crew member, identified as Akshay Somaroo, for possession and importation of child pornography near Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, Canada according to Nunatsiaq News. At the time of his arrest, Somaroo was working on the World Explorer, a relatively small expedition cruise ship with…
Trial Court Awards Over $2,000,000 in Pre-Judgment Interest After Jury Awards $10,000,000 to Victim Raped on Carnival Miracle
A federal court in Miami, Florida recently awarded pre-judgment interest in the amount of $2,134,229.90 (calculated at $1,157.93 per day) on a jury verdict awarded to a woman raped on a Carnival cruise ship. The federal court jury awarded $10,200,000 awarded two years ago (on July 18, 2022) after a crew member raped the young…
Passenger on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas Arrested on Charges of Raping 20 Year Old Woman
A 28 year-old man was arrested this past weekend in Port Everglades on charges of raping a 20 year-old woman on the Freedom of the Seas, according to local News 10. At the time of the arrest, the Royal Caribbean cruise ship had just returned to port in Fort Lauderdale from a seven day…
Royal Caribbean Room Steward Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Producing Child Pornography With Spy Camera on Symphony of the Seas
A Royal Caribbean stateroom attendant on the Symphony of the Seas was sentenced by a federal court judge to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography.
Arvin Joseph Mirasol, age 34, a citizen of the Philippines, was sentenced in Miami federal court yesterday.
During a cruise from Fort Lauderdale in late February, an adult…
Cruise Law Meets ChatGPT
Today, our office manager, Betsy Benitez, who has been an integral part of this firm since 2001, suggested that we begin to use Chat GPT. I had never used this technology before and was a bit skeptical about integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into our law practice. So I typed CruiseLawNews into chatGPT and asked…
2Q CVSSA Crime Data: Carnival Cruise Line Again Leads All Cruise Lines With The Most Sexual Assaults & Rapes
The second quarter 2024 cruise ship crime data mandated by the Cruise Vessel Safety Security and Safety Act (CVSSA) released this morning shows that Carnival Cruise Lines again leads the cruise industry with the most sexual assaults and rapes in the cruise industry, both in real numbers and on a per capita basis.
Today the…
Passenger Goes Overboard From Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas
Early this morning, a passenger reportedly went overboard from a cruise ship sailing in the Adriatic Sea, according to several passengers who contacted us today. The Explorer of the Seas was sailing on a seven day Greece-Croatia cruise when what is described as a young man went overboard around 4:30 to 5:00 a.m. (Another passenger…