Cruise news (accident-tagged)

AIDA Cruises cancels New Year's Eve voyages due to IT problems
The Carnival Corporation-owned company AIDA Cruises announced it had to cancel New Year's Eve voyages around the Canary Islands due to IT issues. The...
December 29, 2020
Accidents
6 crew with Coronavirus on Stena Line's cruiseferry Stena Edda
322 passengers were stranded overnight in Birkenhead (a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England) after 6 crew tested COVID...
December 19, 2020
Accidents
Marella Explorer 2 cruise ship crew medevaced after suffering heart attack
A male crew from Marella Cruises UK's ship Marella Explorer 2 (currently anchored in Tor Bay, off Devon England) was transferred ashore via one of...
December 14, 2020
Accidents
Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten sustains ransomware cyber attack
Hurtigruten Norway announced it had suffered a ransomware cyber attack on Monday, December 14, and several of its systems had been paralyzed. The...
December 14, 2020
Accidents
Coronavirus-positive passenger on Royal Caribbean's Quantum OTS tests negative after disembarkation
An elderly passenger found to have COVID-19 on a RCI-Royal Caribbean International ship has since tested COVID-negative in two further tests, hours...
December 10, 2020
Accidents
Coronavirus-positive passenger on Royal Caribbean's ship Quantum of the Seas
A passenger onboard Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas ship tested COVID-positive during a Cruise to Nowhere from Singapore (seasonal homeport...
December 9, 2020
Accidents
Crew medevaced from Marella Discovery cruise ship off Dorset England coast
A 43-year-old male crew on Marella Cruises' ship Marella Discovery was medevaced Saturday night, November 21, while the liner was anchored in...
November 24, 2020
Accidents
Viking Line's Viking Grace ferry runs aground near Port Mariehamn
The Baltic Sea-deployed cruiseferry Viking Grace (carrying 331 passengers and 98 crew) ran aground in heavy storm winds on Saturday, November 21, in...
November 22, 2020
Accidents
SeaDream Yacht Club cancels all 2020 Caribbean cruises due to Coronavirus
The ultra-luxury brand SeaDream Yacht Club announced it had decided to cancel all voyages for the remainder of 2020 after COVID-positive test results...
November 17, 2020
Accidents
US Democrats ask CDC to resume its no-sail order on ship cruises
Two US Democrats asked the CDC agency's Director (Robert Redfield) to resume the "no-sail" order for cruise shipping on Friday, November 13, after a...
November 15, 2020
Cruise Industry
7 cruise passengers "assumptive positive" for Coronavirus on superyacht SeaDream I
The top-luxury superyacht SeaDream 1 canceled its current Caribbean cruise and returned to homeport Bridgetown Barbados after passengers’ tests...
November 13, 2020
Accidents
Passenger tests positive for COVID-19 aboard SeaDream's first Caribbean cruise
On Wednesday, November 11, a passenger onboard SeaDream Yacht Club's SeaDream I received a preliminary COVID-positive test result. SeaDream I is the...
November 12, 2020
Accidents
Aegean Majesty runs aground in Corinth, Greece
The cruise ship Aegean Majesty (ex-Holland America Line's ship MS Veendam) has reportedly grounded on a sand bar at Port Korinthos (Corinth...
November 8, 2020
Accidents
10 crew test COVID-positive on Thurgau Chopin riverboat
A river cruise ship has once again become a spot for a COVID outbreak - Thurgau Chopin (MS Frederic Chopin). As specified in a note from...
November 6, 2020
Accidents
13 test COVID-19 positive on Ponant’s Le Jacques Cartier
13 people (3 passengers and 10 crew) on Ponant’s cruise ship Le Jacques Cartier (2020-newbuild) tested COVID-positive and the vessel...
November 3, 2020
Accidents