| dd/mm/yy |
Events |
Incident |
| 19.2.06 |
A 30 year old crew member (galley worker) apparently fell overboard early Friday about 1100 miles northeast of Hilo. The ship was assisted by the Coast Guard in a search, which was called off mid-day on Saturday. The ship is now en route to San Diego and will arrive one day later than scheduled. | Crew member missing |
| 1.4.05 |
A California woman and her son have sued Holland America Line after getting sick on a South America cruise in March 2004 where they said toilets overflowed and crew members were seen with prostitutes at ports of call. Their lawsuit alleges: "Not long into the cruise, the toilets on lower decks overflowed several times," and it took crew members 15 hours to clean up the mess, which "created incredibly unsanitary conditions on board, separate and apart from a piercing stench." See Reuters for details and judge for yourself. | Lawsuit |
| 2.2.05 |
Tenders brought
passengers
ashore to Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) to explore for the day with a
planned |
Stranded ashore |
| 21.11.02 |
Cruise
cancelled for thorough cleaning of ship. |
Cancellation |
| dd/mm/yy |
2009 |
| 14.1.10 | The CDC today reported the following illness outbreak last month: The ship reported 8 of 610 (1.31%) crew and 56 of 1317 (4.25%) passengers had reported ill with gastrointestinal illness on a 21 day cruise ending December 23. |
| dd/mm/yy |
2009 |
| 30.5.09 | The ship reported 8 of 587 (1.37%) crew and 101 of 1546 (6.53%) passengers had reported ill with gastrointestinal illness on a 7 day cruise ending today. |
| 23.4.09 | The ship reported 19 of 600 (3.17%) crew and 119 of 1318 (9.03%) passengers had reported ill with gastrointestinal illness on a 22 day Panama Canal cruise ending in Vancouver April 24.UPDATE April 28: CDC has revised the numbers to 25 crew (4.17%) and 135 passengers (10.24%). The cause of the illness is Cyclospora cayetanensis. |
| dd/mm/yy |
2006 |
| 7.4.06 |
For the second cruise in a row the ship has reported an
elevated number of passengers and crew with gastrointestinal
illness. On April 6, the ship’s medical
staff reported that 8 of 605 (1.32%) crew and 76 of 1294 (5.87%) passengers were ill. The 15-day Hawaiian cruise
ended in San Diego on April 6. |
| 21.3.06 |
On March 13, 2006, Holland America Cruise Line
reported that an elevated number of Amsterdam passengers and
crew were experiencing symptoms that were consistent with acute
gastroenteritis. The predominant symptoms are
diarrhea and vomiting. On March 21, the ship’s
medical staff reported that 8 of 606 (1.32%) crew and 142 of 1360
(10.44%) passengers were ill. The ship returns to San
Diego from a 15 day Hawaii cruise on March 22. |
| dd/mm/yy |
2005 |
| 14.3.05 | A passenger wrote: There was an outbreak of influenza and bronchitis on the cruise from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Valparaiso, Chile. It was very widespread, as it seemed that nearly everyone was coughing severely. Nearly everyone we met on the ship was infected. The doctor on the ship diagnosed me with “what everyone else has”, influenza/bronchitis, and the flu shot was ineffective against this flu. I know of one hospitalization in Puerto Montt, and the person was left there. I was given an antiviral med and Z-Pak antibiotic, as was nearly everyone that I talked to. At no time during the cruise did the captain or any other crew member acknowledge that there was a problem, except the doctor. Rumor has it that several people got off the ship in Buenos Aires with possible pneumonia. |
| dd/mm/yy |
2004 |
| 16.4.04 |
On April 16, the ship reported that 75 passengers and 11 crew had reported gatrointestinal illness. It was later confirmed that the illness was caused by E. coli. The cruise ran from March 31 - April 17, ending in San Diego. |
| dd/mm/yy |
2003 |
| 16.8.03 |
According
to Alaska state's epidemiology lab, about 25
passengers have been afflicted with a gastrointestinal virus.
Cruise line officials wouldn't say how many passengers were ill.
They did say that an undisclosed number of passengers were
removed from the ship in Sitka and Juneau and flown home at the cruise
line's expense. |
| dd/mm/yy |
2002 |
| 14.11.02 |
36
people (28 pax and 8 crew) were offloaded at Cuacao (day
3 of the cruise) because they exhibited the symptoms associated
with Norwalk-like virus. 8 more passengers and 3 more cruise
contracted the disease in the following 24 hours. By the end of
the cruise, 64 passengers and 18 crew had reportedly been sickened. |
| 1-11.11.02 |
Upon
arrival onboard, passengers were handed a printed
notice that the ship had been contaminated with Norwalk virus during
the previous cruise. On this cruise, 163 passengers and 18 crew
were confirmed sick from
Norwalk-like virus; 52 passengers (25 who were ill) disembarked
at Bonaire (8) and St. Thomas, USVI (44). |
| 22.10 - 1.11.02 |
41
passengers and 8 crew became ill from Norwalk-like virus
during the cruise. Some were offloaded at ports during the cruise. |
| 1-22.10.02 |
Outbreak of a gastro-intestinal virus on the October 1 repositioning cruise from Seattle to Fort Lauderdale. The company said that 196 passengers and about a dozen crew had contracted the Norwalk-like virus. CDC: 192 passengers (14.3%) and 23 crew (3.82%) |
| 28.4.02 |
Gastrointestinal
outbreak
reported to CDC -- 12 pax (2.19%) and 18 crew (3.48%) |