The Court Guard reports an aircrew from Sector San Diego airlifted a cruise passenger experiencing chest pain from the Carnival cruise ship INSPIRATION. The medevac took place approximately 30 miles southwest of San Diego on the evening of Thursday, February 2, 2012. The crew of the INSPIRATION requested a medevac for the 61-year-old passenger at approximately 5:30 p.m. A Coast Guard flight surgeon was consulted and recommended immediate airlift. A MH-60 Jayhawk crew met the cruise ship at 7:40 p.m. and hoisted the passenger from the INSPIRATION. While on the ground at San Diego, the passenger was transferred to an emergency medical facility for further care. The man’s condition is unknown at the time of this article. This is just one of several cruise ship medevacs preformed by the Coast Guard this year alone.
It has been widely reported a passenger aboard the Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas died early morning on Monday, January 30, 2012 after falling down a flight of stairs. The Broward Sheriff’s Office states the passenger, Barbara Wood, a 47-year-old Massachusetts woman, fell on a flight of stairs and struck her head. Royal Caribbean confirmed the woman died aboard its cruise ship. The accident occurred approximately at 1:48 a.m near the Catacombs nightclub. At the time of the death, the Liberty of the Seas was traveling from the Bahamas to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
As we reported in the article Men Charged for Passenger Rape aboard Royal Caribbean Ship a 20-year Brazilian man and a teenage boy are accused of raping a 15-year girl during a cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean ship Allure of the Seas. Arrest reports state the boy lured the girl to his cabin under false pretenses then both men raped her after refusing to allow her to leave. The Brazilian national, Luiz Scavone, entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment Monday, January 30, 2012 on the count of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor. Scavone and his teenaged accomplice (name withheld from the public) await trial for their alleged sexual assault in Broward County Circuit Court.
In the wake of the COSTA CONCORDIA disaster, there is much discussion on what rights injured passengers and the families of those unfortunate passengers who perished may have against the cruise line. The gamut of “advice” has run from excellent to downright wrong. Commentary by established Miami cruise accident attorneys has been both precise and well informed. The same cannot be said about some land based attorneys who haven’t a clue about the many nuances of cruise line personal injury and wrongful death law. This article intends to separate fact from fiction, concerning those unfortunate passengers, seamen and crew personnel who were seriously injured or lost their lives aboard the ill fated COSTA CONCORDIA.
Multiple media sources are reporting a passenger aboard the Carnival cruise ship Fantasy fell to his death from one of the upper decks of the ship’s atrium to the lobby level on January 27, 2012. The Carnival Fantasy was on a five day trip from Charleston to the Bahamas and was docket at Nassau when the tragic event occurred. The Bahamian authorities boarded the Carnival Fantasy to investigate the incident. Although the ship was cleared to sail by Bahamian authorities the next morning, the delay caused by the investigation caused Carnival to cancel the cruise liner’s visit to Freeport. The victim’s identity was not released but it was obtain that he was a 26-year-old passenger from South Carolina. Carnival Corporation is the parent company of Costa Cruises, whose Costa Concordia liner ran aground off the Italian coast this month, killing at least 17 and injuring several others.
