Cruise news (accident-tagged)
- Accidents
Berthing incident brings Holyhead ferry operations to a halt
Holyhead, the UK’s second busiest passenger ferry port (after Dover), was closed to all ferry traffic following a berthing incident involving...
January 7, 2026 - Accidents
Aurora Expeditions' founder medevaced from Douglas Mawson ship
Greg Mortimer, the explorer who established Aurora Expeditions in the early 1990s, was recently medevaced by helicopter from the newly commissioned...
January 5, 2026 - Accidents
Virgin's ship Valiant Lady changes itinerary due to Venezuela-USA conflict
Virgin Voyages found itself obliged to alter the planned course of MS Valiant Lady, then bound for Caribbean waters, as rising tensions between...
January 5, 2026 - Accidents
56-yo woman medevaced from MSC Orchestra off Sardinia Island, Italy
A 56-year-old woman of Peruvian nationality was the subject of a medical evacuation from the cruise vessel MSC Orchestra on Wednesday morning...
January 4, 2026 - Accidents
Strong Aegean winds trigger sailing ban at Greek ferry ports
Strong southwesterly winds in the central Aegean Sea led Greek maritime authorities to impose a sailing ban from the main passenger ferry ports near...
January 4, 2026 - Accidents
76-yo female passenger medevaced from Viking Sky off Mexico’s Pacific coast
A medical evacuation was carried out from the cruise ship Viking Sky off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán after a 76-year-old...
January 3, 2026 - Accidents
Search suspended after 77-yo passenger goes overboard from HAL's ship Nieuw Statendam
A passenger went overboard from the HAL-Holland America Line ship Nieuw Statendam while the vessel was sailing north of Cuba, prompting an extended...
January 2, 2026 - Accidents
3 passengers medevaced from Mein Schiff 3 south of Madeira
Three passengers were transferred ashore for medical reasons from the cruise ship Mein Schiff 3 during the late hours of January 1st while the vessel...
January 2, 2026 - Accidents
GI illness/Norovirus outbreak reported on Celebrity Eclipse ship
An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness was recorded aboard the Celebrity Eclipse during a late December cruise, resulting in a number of passengers...
January 1, 2026 - Accidents
56-yo female passenger medevaced from Costa Diadema ship off Brazil
Emergency response procedures were initiated on December 29th after a cruise vessel reported a passenger with suspected meningitis while navigating...
December 31, 2025 - Accidents
Search concludes without recovery after passenger overboard incident in Baltic Sea
An international search operation in the Baltic Sea has been concluded without locating a passenger who fell overboard from a Polish ferry near the...
December 30, 2025 - Accidents
Coral Adventurer remains aground off Morobe PNG, the cruise is terminated
Coral Expeditions/ (Australia) vessel Coral Adventurer remains aground on a reef off the coast of Morobe, Papua New Guinea, following unsuccessful...
December 29, 2025 - Accidents
Adult and child retrieved from water during Carnival Sunrise port call
A parent and child were recovered from the water by CCL-Carnival Cruise Line ship personnel after entering the sea alongside the berthed at...
December 29, 2025 - Accidents
Coral Adventurer runs around off Morobe, Papua New Guinea
The Coral Expeditions' vessel Coral Adventurer has run aground off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea during her first voyage since the death of a...
December 28, 2025 - Accidents
Greek trade unions challenge repair plans for cruise ship Crown Iris
Trade unions in Greece have moved to oppose plans that would see the cruise ship Crown Iris allocated berth space at a Greek facility for major...
December 27, 2025