At least 5 cruise ships stuck at sea as Hurricane Ian closes Florida ports

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• Dramatic video captures chopper pulling pregnant woman from Disney cruise ship
• dead after shuttle bus crashes at a Honolulu cruise ship terminal
• Warwick Tollemache fell off a Royal Caribbean ship and wasn't found during a search
• tested positive for COVID-19 on Royal Caribbean cruise ship docking in Miami
• Heartbreaking video shows cruise ship passenger swimming, fishing with friends week before fatal jump
• Norwegian cruise ship loses ability to navigate after rogue wave hits

A new return date for Carnival Elation to Jacksonville also has not yet been set. The ship replaced a scheduled visit to Princess Cay in the Bahamas on Tuesday with a day at sea and will be visiting Freeport in the Bahamas on Wednesday instead of a scheduled sea day. It was the third outbreak this week affecting cruise ships operated by Carnival and Royal Caribbean departing Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The cruise line did not offer any further details about the crew members, nor which agency was handling the investigation. The rogue wave shattered windows on the ship's bridge, which caused water to enter the vessel and resulted in a power outage, Reuters reported.

Dramatic video captures chopper pulling pregnant woman from Disney cruise ship

"Oh noooo hurricane Ian is forcing us to stay on our cruise an extra day," one cruiser on a Royal Caribbean ship wrote early Wednesday on Twitter, adding a laughing emoji that suggested she wasn't upset at all. On Tuesday as Hurricane Ian bore down the west coast of Florida, and Port Canaveral closed to marine traffic at 12 a.m. Also likely to remain at sea longer than expected is Disney Cruise Line's 2,508-passenger, Port Canaveral-based Disney Wish.

dead after shuttle bus crashes at a Honolulu cruise ship terminal

Cuban officials called off their search for Ropich after they couldn't find the teen. Apoorv Sahani later said in a post on X that his family was given footage from the cruise ship. "With the footage, we have unfortunately learnt that my mother has passed away," he wrote. Tollemache fell into the Pacific Ocean after going overboard off Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas on April 26 at about 11 p.m.

Warwick Tollemache fell off a Royal Caribbean ship and wasn't found during a search

The ship was returning from a 10-day cruise to Alaska when it slammed into San Francisco's Pier 27, a large dock on the waterfront of The Embarcadero that hosts cruise ships leaving and arriving in San Francisco Bay. "The safety, security and welfare of all guests and crew are the company's absolute priority," the cruise line said. The company also noted reports that these crew members perished in a shipboard fire are not accurate. Sahani's husband, Jakesh Sahani, woke up in the middle of the night and discovered his wife was not in their cruise cabin, the Straits Times reported. He notified the ship's officials, who, according to the news outlet, told him that his wife was seen on CCTV footage sitting on the ship's railing at about 4 a.m. The extensions have mostly been met with good humor by passengers on the ships, at least judging from their posts on social media.

They were also planning to retrieve the gangways from the harbor after the Norwegian Prima departed. The cruise line at first told Barnett's sister, who was also on the ship, that there was no surveillance footage of her brother that night, Reid said. For over 24 hours, Carnival crews searched the ship and the Coast Guard scoured a 200-mile section of the Gulf of Mexico looking for signs of Barnett. Carnival Elation passenger Jaylen Hill, 30, went overboard on the vessel on July 23 as the ship was on a four-day Bahamas sailing and on its way back to Jacksonville, Florida.

"Carnival Freedom is following all protocols and has a small number on board who are in isolation due to a positive COVID test," the statement said. "Our protocols anticipate this possibility and we implement them as necessary to protect the health and safety of our guests and crew." The ship "sustained limited damage during the incident" and arrived in Ushuaia Wednesday afternoon, Viking said in its statement. For the safety of the guests and staff aboard, the ship left the area and docked at a nearby pier.

"I have my moments where I break, but I'm keeping the faith," she told Business Insider as the search continued. Tyler Barnett, a 28-year-old father of two from Houma, Louisiana was on a week-long cruise with his younger sister and their uncle when he went missing in the middle of the night. A passenger traveling on Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas vessel went overboard on October 29 after the ship departed Barcelona and was saved. On August 29 as the ship was off the coast of Cuba, the 19-year-old Sigmund went overboard.

Norwegian cruise ship loses ability to navigate after rogue wave hits

Two Crew Members Killed in Engine Room Accident on Holland America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise Ship - Cruise Law News

Two Crew Members Killed in Engine Room Accident on Holland America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise Ship.

Posted: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]

There were 3,328 guests and 1,159 crew members on board when it crashed, none of whom were injured and all safely disembarked, according to Princess Cruises. Meanwhile, Florida had 31,758 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, breaking a record for the most cases in a single day since the start of the pandemic in the U.S. in March 2020, according to data from the U.S. The four other guests had non-life-threatening injuries and received treatment from doctors and medical staff onboard. "The damage is more than we first thought and will require an immediate repair to stabilize the funnel, resulting in the cancellation of the March 25 and March 29 cruises from Port Canaveral," Carnival Cruises said. "There was an accidental steam release in an engineering space on board Nieuw Amsterdam, which sadly resulted in the death of two crew members," the cruise line said. “He realistically could have been in the water for 15-plus hours before we were able to successfully rescue him,” Gross said.

The MS Maud lost power after the wave hit as the ship was sailing toward Tilbury, England, from Florø, Norway, HX, a unit of Norway’s Hurtigruten Group, said in a statement. But after eight years in the U.S. and then Italian court system, they lost their case. Prosecutors blamed the delayed evacuation order and conflicting instructions given by crew for the chaos that ensued as passengers scrambled to get off the ship. The captain, Francesco Schettino, is serving a 16-year prison sentence for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning a ship before all the passengers and crew had evacuated. Rogue waves, or extreme storm waves, are uncommon, unpredictable and "greater than twice the size of surrounding waves," according to the National Ocean Service.

WATCH: Pool waves crash as Carnival cruise ship heads back to port on rough seas - FOX 8 Local First

WATCH: Pool waves crash as Carnival cruise ship heads back to port on rough seas.

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A U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson said she was looking into the statement and was unable to immediately confirm it. "We were celebrating the last day of the cruise," she said, when the mood changed "to something extremely somber." Its itinerary includes the Bimini Islands on Monday, Ocho Rios, and will return to Miami on Saturday. The cruise line said no one was injured and that all operations continued as normal. The man was rushed to a hospital in New Orleans and was being evaluated, officials said.

A person who said they were aboard the vessel at the time posted on social media that they could see spotlights and rescue boats from their balcony during the nighttime search. The crew member went overboard off the German cruise ship, called the AIDAperla, on October 22 as the vessel was traveling from Hamburg to Spain. The ship's crew immediately launched a search and rescue operation but found no sign of Sigmund.

The delayed returns mean that nearly 20,000 cruisers this week are getting an extension of their vacations — whether they want one or not. While the ship was visibly damaged, the dock took the brunt of the crash, witnesses said. Guests who did decide to stay aboard and embark on the shorter journey to Alaska will receive a partial refund of 75%.

The Nieuw Amsterdam returned Saturday to its home port of Fort Lauderdale, guests disembarked, and the vessel has embarked on a cruise with a stop in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, on Monday, Holland America said. “I think it kind of blows the norm, the normalcy, out of the water here, and really just shows the will to live is something that you need to account for in every search-and-rescue case,” he told CNN. Container volumes at Port Houston have skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2024. The continued growth in volumes for the port also comes as the West Coast ports continued to rebound after weak volumes in 2023 in part due to... The cruise line did not specify how many guests were injured, how severe their injuries were, or provide a reason for the collapse.

The driver jumped in the driver’s seat and attempted to stop the vehicle when he stepped on the gas, police said. The crash occurred when the shuttle bus driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake, Honolulu police said in statement. The 64-year-old mother went overboard while the cruise was on its way to Singapore. Witnesses said cruise crew members managed to find her and brought her safely back on board in a roughly 45-minute ordeal. Norwegian and MSC Cruises have not yet said when Norwegian Getaway and MSC Divina might return to Port Canaveral.

Passenger Heath Barnes said the ship was on a detoured path, destined for an unscheduled stop in Freeport, as a result of stormy weather and high winds when fire started. In a statement Sunday, Carnival Cruises acknowledged witness reports of a lightning strike or the sound of thunder before the fire erupted. "All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this event," the cruise line said. "We’ve been in contact with the families of both team members and are offering our support to them and to all of our crew at this difficult time."