| dd/mm/yy |
2010 |
Incident |
| 20.11.10 | From a passenger: I just got off 7 day Liberty trip. It was a blast...but not for everyone. On Tuesday we landed at St. Thomas and found out a 36 yr old woman died "with suspicious bruises on face." I have video of the FBI leaving the ship with evidence. The incident was subsequently reported by 7 News, Miami: A cruise ship has returned to South Florida after a tragedy at sea. The Carnival Liberty ship was headed to St. Thomas when one passenger discovered a 36-year-old woman unconscious in her cabin. The victim received medical attention on the cruise ship, but she was pronounced dead two hours later. The FBI continues to investigate the victim's death and awaits her autopsy report. "It could be a possible homicide. It could be some other factor in the death of this individual, but we're still investigating this case at this time," said Harry Rodriguez of the FBI in San Juan. |
Pax death |
| 25.7.10 | A poster at Cruise Critic reports while pulling into Half Moon Cay a man went overboard. Speculation there was a couple fighting badly in the casino last night and he jumped. Felt like forever to get him but we think we saw movement after they got him on the lifeboat. A subsequent post gives more details: So here is what I know. I was walking down the hall to my room when I heard "bravo bravo starboard side". Within seconds I got to my door and could here the other people in our party out on the deck with raised voices. I ran outside to find that they saw the man actually fall below. They had heard people start to scream and they looked over the balcony to see him falling from what they could tell right around the lifeboats. He stayed submerged for what felt like was 30 seconds or so. Someone did manage to throw out a ring and it appeared he had it but we later realized he didn't. I think he tried swimming and fighting the ocean for awhile...and he completely went out of sight...he then reappeared floating on his back. The crew did an excellent job...but it was very scary. When the lifeboat finally reached him they struggled to get him on the lifeboat but they got him in. When the lifeboat came around and we could see inside they were not performing CPR so we assumed he was awake. We have heard around the ship that he is alive. Somebody on the ship said it was a band member who got into an argument in the casino....not sure about all the details. The whole ordeal probably took about five to ten minutes. Whatever the reason ..I hope he is okay. | Crew member overboard - Rescued alive |
| 26.4.10 | From a reader: On January 9, 2010 my wife and I began a cruise on the Carnival Liberty from Miami. On the first morning at sea we were notified that the plumbing on our deck required that the water be shut off that day for an eight hour period. This was repeated two days later. I contacted Customer Service and supervisor Creg Szabo expressing concern for possible toxicity once water was restored because of my immune system as a cancer survivor and our ages in the late sixties. I showed him the attached photos we took of the water in our sink and toilet. He offered no solutions. I have written Carnival Cruise Lines asking why this problem couldn't have been fixed in port or during the night hours. I also asked why bottled water was not offered for personal hygiene and why qualified personnel did not ascertain the origin of the problem and communicate such to passengers. My request was denied. On February 22 Susan Cohn of their Guest Care office sent a nonsensical letter beginning with "Designing memorable trips is the heart of our business...Great food and service...will create wonderful memories..." She apologized "...that you felt let down." I have since contacted Affordable Tours through whom we booked the cruise, The Florida Division of Consumer Services, The US Public Health Service, and The Federal Maritime Commission. None has any regulatory authority over the cruise line industry. My advice: avoid Carnival Cruise Lines and understand that once at sea you're on your own. In retrospect, I think I should have screamed like hell at the Customer Service counter as some passengers were doing to get attention for their problems. | Sanitary water issues |
| dd/mm/yy |
2009 |
Incident |
| 19.11.09 | From a passenger: 3 hours after leaving port in San Juan, the ship had to turn around to return due to a passenger being "very sick". It was reported later, "through the grapevine" that the passenger had been having serious breathing issues...possible heart attack. Due to the return to San Juan, the stop at Grand Turk on 11/19 had to be canceled. Being a passenger, I was a little disappointed about missing Grand Turk, but was thankful that Carnival cares about individual passengers and their health. | Canceled port call |
| dd/mm/yy |
2008 |
Incident |
| 28.10.08 |
The company has cancelled its program of summer 2009 sailings from Dover. Instead, the ship will stay in Miami sailing to the Caribbean instead of re-positioning to Europe next summer as originally scheduled. The decision was based on "current market conditions, continued economic uncertainty and high air costs to Europe which impact US visitors wishing to cruise in Europe," a statement said. | Cancelation of 2009 program |
| 15.9.08 |
The Herald
Telegram in Saint Maarten reports the ship will
make a previously unscheduled port call there on September 24. The ship
was originally scheduled to stop in San Juan, PR on the 24th. The best
guess is that San Juan will be visited September 25th when it was
scheduled to stop at Turks and Caicos where the port facilities
suffered hurricane damage. |
Changed itinerary |
| 24.2.08 |
The ship's arrival in Port Everglades was delayed by more
than six hours because of a medical emergency requiring a diversion to
Grand Cayman for a 15 year old passenger. Instead of arriving in port
between 5:30 and 6:00 AM, it arrived after 11:30 AM. The ship was on an
8 day cruise of the western Caribbean. |
Delayed arrival & departure |
| 2.1.08 |
Ship was prevented from making its call at Ocho
Rios because of rough seas associated with a weather cold front. The
ships had a day at sea and continued on to their next port of call. See
Jamaica
Observer for the story. |
Canceled port call (Weather) |
| dd/mm/yy |
2007 |
Incident |
| 12.11.07 |
Two separate passengers reported that the ship apparently
had propulsion problems off the
coast Puerto Rico -- as one person said, the
ship is "parked in the ocean between Florida & San Juan" and
that it appears unlikely they will arrive in San Juan at 5PM as
scheduled." The ship did make it to San Juan,
about an hour or so late. If additiuonal details are received about the
problem it will be posted. The 8-day Eastern Caribbean cruise began
November 10 in Fort
Lauderdale. |
Engine problems |
| 26.8.07 |
A poster at Cruise
Critic describes her "cruise from hell" on the eight day cruise
ending today which embarked/disembarked from Fort Lauderdale. She
says there was a large group of
700-800 who over ran the ship and dominated
most of the public areas either by design or intimidation by their
behavior. My family never was able to use the Victoria lounge, the
disco, the teen disco, the arcade, a large portion
of the promenade deck. Carnival
allowed this group to have private access to the Victoria
Lounge every night, therefore denying use of this area to all other
passengers. The other
areas mentioned were off limits to the other passengers on
this trip because the behavior of the individuals who occupied it was
so terrifying that all other passengers avoided these areas. My teen
age daughters were so fearful of what went on this ship that after
dinner they spend it in their cabin watching movies. Some of the behaviors that I witnessed firsthand: drug sales; lying in wait in hall ways and
on
elevators and intimidating other passengers who wanted to use these
areas; running, shoving and
pushing fellow passengers on the promenade deck,
and on the stair case in the lobby (I was shoved down the stairs by a
group who were running down the spiral staircase -- After I fell they
turned back and laughed); standing
on furniture, placing chairs in front of doors in the teen disco and
“locking” other youngsters in; on
2 separate evenings, a full blown riot on the promenade deck,
involving at least 40-50 individuals who were fighting throwing
furniture, punches, filthy language and breaking a bottle to use a
weapon -- the entire security
staff was called, bar tenders left their stations, officers arrived to
break up the fight.; running
and screaming in the corridors at all hours of the night; and a group
of 10-20 individuals doing
laundry all night all while smoking and drinking, and laughing yelling
so loud I could hear every word in my bed. The staff of the Liberty was either unable
or unwilling to enforce any
limitations on the individuals in these groups. I spoke to a high
ranking crew member who informed me that these passengers paid for
their cruise and there was nothing they could do. NOTE: Group cruises are occasionally a
problem -- there was one on Carnival including swingers and one on Royal Caribbean including bears that got considerable attention last year. |
Cruise from Hell |
| 2.7.07 |
The Coast Guard was alerted around 11:45 p.m. that a 29 year old man, appearing intoxicated, had fallen overboard. The ship was 50 miles off the coast of Boca Raton, Florida. A helicopter and rescue boats were sent out and a Coast Guard boat pulled the man from the water alive around 12:30 a.m. Subsequent reports say the man had been drinking with his three buddies since the ship had left Fort Lauderdale at about 4 PM. The group left the casino area after 11 PM. to go outside, where the man climbed into a lifeboat -- "He took the ax and started to chop at the ropes." The ship's assistant chief of security came out to get him to stop. He started climbing toward the man and told him to get down. "Then he jumped into the water." He was rescued within an hour. |
Jumped overboard
-- Rescued alive |
| 3.6.07 |
A group of passengers who had just disembarked and were
waiting to board a bus to the airport were slammed into by a Greyhound
bus that lurched toward them, hitting a concrete post first. Six
people were transported to hospital with injuries that were not life
threatening. See
the Sun -Sentinel for more details, and here
too. |
Accident onshore |
| 22.2.07 |
Three muggers attempting to rob a dozen seniors on a tour
bus (a privately arranged tour) in Limon (Costa Rica) were
foiled. A man, about 70 years of age, put one suspect into a head
lock and broke his clavicle -- he died of asphixiation; the other two
men armed with a knife and a gun fled after the other senior citizens
began defending themselves. In December, a passenger was shot
(not critically) in a robbery attempt while on a walk along a boardwalk
in a Limon city park. |
Pax Foil Robbery |
| dd/mm/yy |
2006 |
Incident |
| 15.11.06 |
It wasannounced to day that the cruise scheduled to depart
November 19th from Port Everglades will now depart on November 21 in
order to allow the company to throughly clean/sanitize the ship
following the current cruise where many passengers reported ill.
The new itinerary will be a four day cruise to Key West and
Cozumel. Passengers choosing to take the new itinerary will
receive a 50% refund on this cruise and a 50% discount on a future
cruise. Passengers can also choose to cancel the cruise and
receive a full refund which will be processed within two weeks. |
Itinerary Change |
| 22.3.06 |
There was a complete power failure that lasted approximately
1 hours (10 - 11PM) and it was another hour or so before everything
appeared "back to normal". Passengers report on this at Cruise
Critic. |
Power failure |
| dd/mm/yy |
Illness |
| 29.4.09 | The ship reported 57 of 1163 (4.9%) crew and 208 of 3253 (6.39%) passengers had reported ill with gastrointestinal illness on a 7 day Caribbean cruise ending in Miami April 25. |
| 26.11.06 |
The
Miami Herald and other media report that some passengers complained
of gastrointestinal illness. The cruise line said it didn't know
how many were ill, but that it was fewer than 2 percent of the 3100
passengers onboard -- that'd be less than 62. He further said
that the number of illnesses on this voyage were in the normal range
for a vessel that size. |
| 13.11.06 |
The
ship reported that 116 of 1166 (9.94%)
crew and 429 of 2804 (15.3%) passengers had reported ill with one week
remaining in the cruise. The cruise begin in Civitavecchia on 3
November and ends in Port Everglades on 19 November.
Symptoms
were consistent with gastrointestinal illness (e.g., norovirus) .
Additional cleaning staff and staff from the Vessel Sanitation Program
of the CDC will board the ship in Phillipsburg (Sint Maarten) on 16
November. Revised numbers (according to Cruise Critic) 14 November: 154 of 1166 (13.2%) crew and 556 of 2804 (19.8%) pax |
| 19.5.06 |
According
to those onboard, many passengers (up to one-third) contracted
gastrointestinal illness during the cruise 12 day cruise ending today
in Civitavecchia. By the end of the cruise, all the
dishes and silverware had been removed from the buffets and
passengers had to be handed their plates with their food
selections by the kitchen staff. Half way through
the cruise, Carnival employees began scrubbing down all common
area surfaces such as outdoor furniture, decks and walls while wearing
masks and gloves. The crew all wore gloves to handle "sign
and sail" cards, etc. |