Drone footage captured the moment a pregnant woman was airlifted from a Disney cruise ship by the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday. A rescuer could be seen rappelling down from an MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter onto the Disney Fantasy, floating in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of Puerto Rico, in video shared by the Coast Guard. The 35-year-old woman was strapped to …
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Florida man believes son is alive after jumping off cruise ship: report
The father of a 20-year-old Florida man who leaped from the 11th floor of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship 57 miles from shore last week believes his “master diver” son is still alive, according to a report. Francel Parker told the Daily Sun that his son, Levion Parker, works on a commercial fishing boat and said that he had multiple …
Read More »Search for missing South Carolina cruise passenger complicated by jungle terrain as family demands US help
A once-hopeful search for a South Carolina man who went missing last week during a cruise excursion in Cozumel, Mexico, is dimming. Edmond Bradley Solomon III’s family, including his daughter and wife, have been using social media and physically scouring the island with several local law enforcement agencies, but promising leads have become dead ends and theories are running dry. …
Read More »South Carolina man vanishes from cruise after getting off at popular port of Cozumel, Mexico
A beloved dad’s family has sifted through false leads and hit dead ends over the last five days after Edmond Bradley Solomon III vanished. The 66-year-old Charleston, South Carolina, family patriarch was last seen on April 3, when a Royal Caribbean cruise ship stopped in the popular tourist hot spot Cozumel, Mexico. Minutes after getting off the ship, he went …
Read More »Cruise ship stranded in Spanish port resumes sailing after removal of passengers with visa problems
A cruise ship stuck in the northeastern Spanish port of Barcelona will be able to resume its route after a group of Bolivian passengers with visa problems were taken off the vessel on Thursday, authorities said. The Spanish government said in a statement it had reached an agreement with MSC Cruises Company in which 69 Bolivian passengers were removed from …
Read More »Norwegian Cruise says stranded American passengers were over hour late to ship, given passports: report
Norwegian Cruise passengers, who were stranded on an African island, missed the boarding time by more than an hour, which is why they were left behind, according to reports. Eight passengers, including six Americans and two Australians, were on a private tour of São Tomé and missed the 3 p.m. all-aboard call on Friday, the cruise line said. A cruise …
Read More »Cruise ship reportedly stranded in Spanish port due to passenger visa problems
A cruise ship reportedly carrying 1,500 passengers was stuck Wednesday in the Spanish northeastern port of Barcelona due to the visa problems of a group of Bolivian passengers who were due to disembark there, officials said. Authorities say 69 Bolivians are not being allowed to leave the ship because they lack valid documents to enter the European border-free Schengen area. …
Read More »Americans stranded by Norwegian Cruise save elderly passenger, family says: Ship 'left her to die'
Norwegian Cruise Line forced an 80-year-old woman, who suffered a stroke and possible heart attack, to “medically disembark” on an African island and “left her to die,” her family said. That was on Wednesday, March 27, and the cruise line never called Julie Lenkoff’s emergency contacts and had one conversation with the family between Wednesday and Monday without providing any …
Read More »Americans stranded by Norwegian Cruise Line after island excursion, left without money, vital meds: report
Six American cruise passengers, including a pregnant woman, and two Australians were stranded on an African island during a vacation getaway, according to reports. And it’s only gotten worse. A South Carolina couple – Jill and Jay Campbell – said Norwegian Cruise Line left the group on the island of São Tomé, a Central African island nearly 6,000 miles from …
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