Cruise Law News
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Telling everything the cruise lines don't want you to know is the motto of this maritime law blog authored by Miami lawyer Jim Walker. Cruise Law News aims to discuss incidents at sea on cruise ships and in ports of call and to educate the public about the legal rights of cruise ship passengers and crew members. We also address cruise ship safety, security, crime on ships, cruise industry..
Cruise Law News
1M ago
The cruise crime data, released earlier this week as part of the quarterly reporting by the Department of Transportation (DOT), again shows that Carnival Cruise Line clearly has the most sexual assaults and rapes as well as the most physical assault with serious personal injuries, both in total numbers and on a per capita basis ..read more
Cruise Law News
1M ago
A resident of Polk City, Florida was arrested at the Port of Tampa on charges of possessing and transporting child pornography on the Margaritaville at Sea’s Islander, according to a local news station in Tampa. James Oxley, age 52, boarded the Islander cruise ship, operated by Margaritaville at Sea, on December 17, 2025 for a ..read more
Cruise Law News
1M ago
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 ..read more
Cruise Law News
2M ago
There is a reason why Carnival cruise ships have the highest per capita rate of sexual assaults on the high seas, as this case demonstrates. Last week, after a two-week trial, a federal jury found Jalen Thomas Kelley, age 22, guilty of aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, and assault of a minor aboard the Carnival ..read more
Cruise Law News
3M ago
A seventy-two year old man was reported missing on Monday morning from the Ruby Princess when it returned to port in San Francisco following a five day cruise to Mexico, according to numerous national and local news stations. It remains unknown how the man went overboard or the circumstances which led to the incident. A ..read more
Cruise Law News
4M ago
The Miami-Dade Police Department arrested a passenger who disembarked from an unidentified cruise ship at PortMiami last weekend on charges of “purchasing child sexual abuse material online.” Miami-Dade Police arrested Nicholas Gardener, age 24, of Brampton, Ontario who was initially held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $50,000 bond for five felony ..read more
Cruise Law News
5M ago
A sixty-six (66) year-old passenger was reported overboard from the Allure of the Seas cruise ship north of Nassau, Bahamas last night. Around 9:40 p.m. last night, passengers reported hearing an “Oscar-Oscar-Oscar” announcement. A rescue craft was reportedly deployed to search for the missing woman. The Allure used search lights on the dark waters to ..read more
Cruise Law News
5M ago
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 ..read more
Cruise Law News
6M ago
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. Florida is the only state ..read more
Crew Member Arrested for Child Pornography – 17th Cruise Ship Employee Arrested in Last Seven Months
Cruise Law News
6M ago
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 a ..read more