The FBI is investigating the “suspicious death” of a female passenger onboard the Carnival Sunshine cruise ship, the agency announced in a news release Sunday. The woman was found unresponsive during the ship’s February 27 voyage to Nassau, Bahamas, the FBI field office in Columbia, South Carolina, said. Medical staff and crew members attempted life-saving […]
A cruise ship was prevented from docking in Australia due to fungal growth on the ship’s hull, according to statements issued by the cruise line and Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry (DAFF). The DAFF National Maritime Coordination Center was notified of “small amounts of biofoul” on the hull of the Viking Orion on […]
DETROIT—U.S. safety regulators are investigating reports that autonomous robotaxis run by General Motors’ Cruise LLC can stop too quickly or unexpectedly quit moving, potentially stranding passengers. Three rear-end collisions that reportedly took place after Cruise autonomous vehicles braked hard kicked off the probe, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). At the time, […]
ADELAIDE, Australia—The body of a 23-year-old woman was found Wednesday in the ocean off Australia after she fell overboard from a cruise ship. Crew members aboard the Pacific Explorer reported the passenger missing at about midnight, when the ship was around 70 kilometers (43 miles) out to sea from Cape Jaffa in South Australia state. […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A U.S. woman was killed and four other passengers injured when a massive wave struck the Viking Polaris cruise ship while it was sailing toward the port of Ushuaia in southern Argentina on an Antarctic cruise, authorities said. The 62-year-old woman was hit by broken glass when the wave broke cabin windows late […]
An Alabama man who rescuers pulled from the Gulf of Mexico hours after he was reported missing from a cruise ship doesn’t know how he wound up in the water, he told ABC. James Michael Grimes, who treaded water for a large part of Thanksgiving Day before he was rescued, doesn’t remember falling off the […]
In the first hours after the Carnival Valor set sail from New Orleans on Thanksgiving eve, a brother and sister set off for a place apropos of a holiday mood: They headed to an onboard bar. Predictably, the man at one point stepped away to use the restroom. But he didn’t come back. Hours passed. […]
This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. An idyllic riverboat cruise on the Amazon River becomes a nightmare in the jungle when two criminals wanted for theft take over the boat and threaten the lives of the voyagers. As the crew and passengers develop a plan to […]
TOKYO—Japan will lift a more than 2 1/2-year ban on international cruise ships that was imposed following a deadly coronavirus outbreak on the cruise ship Diamond Princess at the beginning of the pandemic, transport officials said Tuesday. The Transport Ministry said cruise ship operators and port authorities’ associations have adopted anti-virus guidelines and that Japan […]
WASHINGTON—General Motors startup Cruise LLC said Thursday it had recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving vehicles after a June crash in San Francisco that left two people injured. Federal regulators said the recalled software could “incorrectly predict” an oncoming vehicle’s path. Cruise said it had determined this unusual scenario would not recur after the […]
