Utopia Of The Seas accidents and incidents

CruiseMapper's Utopia Of The Seas cruise ship accidents, incidents and law news reports relate to a 7958-passenger vessel owned by Royal Caribbean. Our Utopia Of The Seas accidents page contains reports made by using official data from renown online news media sources, US Coast Guard and Wikipedia.

Here are also reported latest updates on cruise law news related to ashore and shipboard crimes still investigated by the police. Among those could be arrests, filed lawsuits against the shipowner / cruise line company, charges and fines, grievances, settled / withdrawn legal actions, lost cases, virus outbreaks, etc.

medevac - 2024 (during sea trials)

11 May 2024Coast Guard Medevacs

On May 11, 2024, during the ship's sea trials in the Bay of Biscay, a male worker was medevaced by a Securite Civile (Civil defense rescue) helicopter team.

The injured man was airlifted/hoisted in a basket and flown to a hospital.

The French authorities were contacted at 4:21 pm (14:21 UTC), when the ship was approx 8 NM (15 km/9 mi) off the island Belle-Ile.

The emergency medical evacuation was coordinated by the Atlantic Maritime Prefecture's Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center.

During the 5-day sea trials, Utopia OTS was commanded by Captain Gus Andersson and carried 900+ crew and contract workers (experts in engineering, navigation, naval architecture and design).

You can add more details on reported here accident or submit new / your own Utopia Of The Seas ship incident ("Cruise Minus" report) via CruiseMapper's contact form.