dd/mm/yy |
2010 |
Incident |
23.6.10 | KDKA-TV reports a 71 year old man has been charged with traveling across state lines intending to molest a child. According to the FBI, he boarded the ship for a week-long voyage. The lead agent in this case testified in federal court what allegedly happened on the morning of Dec. 18. 2009. "Based on the testimony in court today, he was alleged to have attempted to fondle a boy in a hot tub on a cruise ship," FBI agent Julie Halferty said. ABC Action News reports the man admitted he got onto a Florida cruise ship to have a sexual encounter with a child. Investigators say he went into the children's area during a December cruise and fondled a 6-year-old boy in a hot tub. The FBI says surveillance footage shows him putting his arm around the boy and pull him onto his lap. NOTE: Analysis of crime reports to the FBI reveal that a minor is the victim in more than 18% (perhaps as high as 30%) of sex related incidents on cruise ships. | Child molestation |
16.5.10 | CBS News reports someone called the company's reservation center in Wichita, Kansas around 5 p.m. Saturday to saythere were explosives on the ship. The ship's security conducted interior security sweeps of the vessel but were unable to find anything. The ship continued it journey and docked in the Port of Miami Sunday around 6:00 a.m. FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents conducted a pier-side boarding of the vessel and no explosive material was found. The ship has been permitted to resume operations. | Bomb threat |
21.1.10 | Cayman News Service reports the body of a 37-year-old man has been discovered in a cabin on board the ship. A spokesperson said that officers were investigating the situation but were unable to give any more details about how the man may have died. Police said they received a report that the body had been found just before lunchtime today (Thursday 21 January). The cruise had already caused controversy in some quarters of the community as the ship had been chartered by a tour operator catering to gay tourism. | Death onboard |
dd/mm/yy |
2009 and earlier |
Incident |
4.6.09 | The Cayman Compass reports a 62 year old woman died while swimming off 7 mile beach. Police said that the 911 Emergency Communications Centre received a call from a member of the public at around 11.45 am on Wednesday reporting that a swimmer had been brought to shore unconscious in the vicinity of Royal Palms. Police and medics responded to the scene and the 62-year old woman was taken to hospital where she was unfortunately pronounced dead. Detectives have been told that the woman had been swimming with her husband when she got into difficulty. Her husband sought assistance from another cruise ship passenger who was in the area on a jet-ski and she was brought to shore. | Pax death ashore |
30.12.07 |
From a passenger: I was travelling with my family for the
New Year holiday on the ship, departing Miami December 29. There were
10 other family members on board the ship with me. I was playing
in the casino and got into an argument with some high rollers in the
casino on the departing night, Saturday (12/29). There was
no physical altercation just an argument. Security broke up
the argument and I was asked to leave the casino and went back to my
cabin around 1:30am. The high roller threatened me and
a security guard was placed outside my cabin overnight. The next
day I was called by Guest Relations around 9:45pm and was told to
meet Security in the back room at the front desk at 7:00 am Monday,
which was the first port of call. There were several gentlemen
present at the meeting (head of security, guest relations) and I was
told that I have 45 minutes to pack my bags and get off the ship and
that I was a security risk to the ship. I packed my bags and was
escorted to the dining room. In the dining room there were
immigration officials who had to approve of my disembarkation.
Although I objected to being thrown off the ship and although the
immigration officials also didn't approve of my being thrown off the
ship, officials from the cruise line handed an envelope with $1,000
cash in it to the immigration official and I was then escorted off
the ship to a small boat then transferred to Labadee (private
reserve on the island of Haiti). I was put in a golf cart and
driven to the end of a fenced in area to a waiting jeep. Inside
the jeep were machine gun armed guards and the driver. I was
driven from a locked compound in Labadee, Haiti to a run down
deserted landing strip where there was a
turbo propeller plane waiting for me. On the ride to the
landing strip I was advised to duck down for my safety. I was
scared for my life and thought I was going to die. I was then
escorted onto the turbo prop and was flown from Haiti to Fort
Lauderdale, taking 3 hours. I then transferred onto a
commercial airliner at my cost and arrived home Monday
night. FYI, Haiti is listed on the US State Departments list of
countries for Americans to avoid. |
Passenger evicted from ship |
dd/mm/yy |
Reported Illness Outbreaks |
18.6.07 |
The ship reported that 10 of 1425 (0.75%) crew members and 172 of 3846 (4.47%) passengers had reported ill on a 7 day Caribbean cruise from Miami (26 May - 2 June). Because of the illness outbreak, boarding begins at 6:00 pm tomorrow (rather than normal time) and ship departure will be at 10:00 pm Saturday evening following a complete CDC scrub down. Reportedly, rmbarking passengers will be refunded $25 for lunch and 100% refund if they choose to cancel. UPDATE: Local 6-TV in Orlando sayas a company statement puts the numbers at 200 passengers and 12 crew members. |