A group of stranded cruise passengers has been trying to rejoin a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) ship that left the small African island nation of São Tomé and Principe without them. The six Americans and two Australians are racing to reunite with the Norwegian Dawn cruise ship as it travels up the West African coast. […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday heard the case of whether a former president be barred from running for office under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause. Chinese hackers have accessed U.S. infrastructure for years undetected. California state officials step in to address Oakland’s rising crime. The former police chief sues the city and mayor. Artists brighten […]
More than 100 passengers and crew have fallen ill while on a three-week leg of a 107-night cruise with Cunard Cruise Line on the Queen Victoria, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the report, 139 people on board—123 passengers and 16 crew members—have reported gastrointestinal symptoms […]
North Korea fired an unspecified number of cruise missiles into the waters off its west coast on Wednesday, according to the South Korean military, a move that could potentially escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected North Korea’s missile launches at around 7 a.m. (local time) […]
NEW ORLEANS—The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it was conducting a large-scale search of the Gulf of Mexico for a Louisiana man reported missing from a cruise ship earlier in the week. The man, identified by family as Tyler Barnett, 28, of Houma, was last seen on security camera footage aboard the Carnival Glory […]
GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) unit is recalling 950 of its driverless cars across the United States following a crash that occurred in California last month that involved a pedestrian. According to a safety notice filed by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Nov. 7, a software update can resolve the issue […]
Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors Co. (GM), has paused all its driverless operations nationwide, the company announced on Oct. 26. The announcement comes after the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) this week said the firm’s autonomous vehicles (AVs) are “not safe for the public’s operation” and suspended its permits to operate driverless vehicles […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer was successfully pulled free on Thursday, three days after running aground in Greenland with 206 people on board, authorities and the ship’s owner said. The ship was freed by a fisheries research vessel at high tide, said the cruise ship’s owner, Copenhagen-based SunStone Ships, and the Joint […]
General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city. The state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) asked for the reduction after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on Thursday. “The […]
A Princess Cruises ship crashed into a pier in San Francisco as it was preparing to dock after a 10-day Alaskan cruise, officials said. The 113,561-ton Ruby Princess “made unexpected contact with the dock at Pier 27” at the port of San Francisco Thursday morning, Princess Cruises said in a statement obtained by CNN. “There […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that more than 175 people were sickened with norovirus during a recent Celebrity Cruises Summit cruise to Bermuda. The outbreak of the stomach virus affected some 152 passengers and about 25 crew members, said the CDC in a bulletin, between May 15 to May 25. […]
NORFOLK, Va.—The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it’s searching for a man who fell from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida. The 35-year-old passenger fell from the Carnival Magic ship about 185 miles east of Jacksonville on Monday, the service said in a statement. The Coast Guard is searching from the air […]
CHARLESTON, S.C.—A cruise ship that navigated rough seas off the South Carolina coast over the Memorial Day weekend has resumed sailing on its next cruise, Carnival Cruise Lines said Monday. Terrified passengers on the Carnival Sunshine took to social media to post video of water pouring through a flooded hallway on a cabin level and […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband’s body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered extreme emotional trauma. After Marilyn Jones’ husband of 55 years, Robert Jones, died of a heart attack Aug. […]
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 […]
