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All Known
Illness Outbreaks on Cruise Ships : (based on news, passenger,
and official accounts)
Curious about
Norwalk-like virus: "Norovirus
transmission on cruise ships," Emerging
Infectious Diseases , 2005, 11:1, 154-157"Outbreaks
of acute gastroenteritis on cruise
ships and on land: identification of a predominant circulating strain
of norovirus--United States, 2002," Journal
of Infectious Disease ,
2004, 190:1 (July 1), 27-36. American Journal of Preventive Medicine ,
April 2003.Outbreaks
of Gastroenteritis Associated with Noroviruses on Cruise Ships ---
United States, 2002 , MMWR
Weekly, 51 (49), 1112 -
1115, December 15, 2002. CDC
Telebriefing Transcript, Outbreak of Gastrointestinal Illness Aboard
Cruise Ships, November 27, 2002 CDC
Telebriefing Transcript, Update on CDC Outbreak Investigation of
Norwalk-like Viruses on Cruise Ships, December 12, 2002 Norwalk-Like
Viruses: Public Health Consequences and Outbreak Management , MMWR
Weekly - Recommendations and Reports , 51 (RR-9), June 1, 2001.
Click HERE for a
Comprehensive Bibliography of
Medical and Health Issues Related to
Cruise Ships MARINE ACCIDENT REPORTS,
2000 - 2010
Report on Engineroom Fire On Board U.S. Small Passenger Vessel Queen of the West Columbia River, near Rufus, Oregon April 8, 2008, Marine Accident Report (NTSB/MAR-09/04) , November 2009
Report on the investigation of the shift of an articulated road tanker on board the roll-on roll-off high-speed sea service cargo ferry, Stena Voyager, in Loch Ryan on 28 January 2009 , October 2009.
Report on the investigation of
the entrapment of an engine room fitter
in a watertight door
on board the ro-ro passenger ship
Eurovoyager
approaching Ramsgate, UK on
3 November 2008 , UK Marine Accident
Investigation Branch, July 2009
Report on the investigation of heavy weather
encountered by the cruise ship
Pacific Sun
200 miles north north east of North Cape, New Zealand
on 30 July 2008 resulting in injuries to 77 passengers and crew, UK Marine Accident
Investigation Branch, June 2009
Report of Investigation in the Matter of Sinking of Passenger Vessel EXPLORER 23 November 2007 in the Banfield Strait near South Shetland Islands, Bureau of Maritime Affairs, Republic of Liberia, Monrovia, 26 March 2009.
Report
on the investigation of into the grounding of Pride of Canterbury, “The
Downs” – off Deal, Kent 31 January 2008 , UK Marine Accident
Investigation Branch, January 2009
Report
on the investigation of a close quarter investigation between Costa
Atlantica and Grand Neptune in the Dover Strait on 15 May 2008 , UK Marine Accident
Investigation Branch, November 2008
Completed
Preliminary Examination Summary: Queen Victoria in Contact with Pier at
Valetta Harbour, Malta, July 2008
Completed
Preliminary Examination Summary: Queen Elizabeth 2 and Pride of Kent
Near Miss , UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, March 2008Report
on the Investigation of heavy weather damage to the passenger cruise
ship Pacific Star on 10 July 2007. UK Marine
Accident Investigation Branch Report
No 5/2008, 29 February 2008. Report on the
Heeling Accident on M/V Crown Princess, Atlantic Ocean Off Port
Canaveral, Florida, July 18, 2006 , NTSB Report Number MAR-08-01,
January 2008 Report on the
Boiler Rupture on Bahamian Cruise Ship S.S. Norway, Port of Miami, May
25, 2003 . NTSB Report Number MAB 07/03, November 2007Report
on the investigation of the fatal accident to person on board Thomson
Celebration Tender 15 at anchor - St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel
Islands 26 September 2006. UK Marine
Accident Investigation Branch Report No 11/2007 , June 2007
Report on the investigation of the
engine room fire on board the passenger cruise vessel The Calypso 16
miles south of Beachy Head, 6 May 2006. UK Marine
Accident Investigation Branch Report No 8/2007 , April 2007
Report
of the investigation of the fire onboard Star Princess off Jamaica 23
March 2006. UK Marine
Accident Investigation Branch Report No 28/2006 , October 2006
Fire On Board the Star Princess --
MAIB Safety Bulletin ,
April 27, 2006 Marine Accident Report:
Heavy-Weather Damage to Bahamas-Fag Passenger Vessel Norwegian Dawn , Atlantic Ocean, 120
Miles East of Charleston, South Carolina, April 16, 2005 , NTSB Report Number: MAB-05-03 Report
of the investigation of the grounding of the passenger vessel Balmoral ,
Dagger Reef - Gower Peninsula, 18 October 2004. UK Marine
Accident Investigation Branch Report No 14/2005, July 2005. Report of
the investigation of the grounding of the passenger vessel Waverley ,
South of Sanda Island, West Coast of Scotland, 20 June 2004.
UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch Report No 1/2005, January 2005.
Independent investigation into the grounding
of the Bahamas registered passenger ship Astor in Platypus Channel, Townsville , Queensland , 26 February 2004 .
Australian Transport Safety
Report No. 200
Marine
Accident Brief: Engineroom Fire on the U.S. Passenger Vessel Columbia
in Wrangell Narrows, Near Wrangell, Alaska, on May 28, 2003 , NTSB
Report Number: MAB-04-02, adopted on 4/19/2004
Grounding
and sinking of U.S. Passenger Vessel Safari
Spirit Kisameet Bay off
Fisher Channel, about 20 miles southeast of the towns of Bella Bella
and Shearwater, Denny Island, British Columbia, Canada on May 8, 2003
TSB
Report on Switchboard Fire Passenger Vessel Statendam Strait
of Georgia, British Columbia, 04 August 2002 , Transportation Safety
Board of Canada
Report
Number M02W0135Report
of the Escape of Steam and Hot Water on Board QE2 in the mid Atlantic
Resulting in one Fatality on 23 June 2002
Report
of
Investigation into Flooding of Aft Engine Room of Passenger Ship Queen
Elizabeth 2 , 21/22 May 2002
Report of
Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Fire Aboard Royal
Caribbean International Passenger vessel Nordic Empress in the Atlantic
Ocean, June 15, 2001
Investigation into the grounding of the
British flag passenger ship Regal
Princess in the Cairns
harbour
channel on 16th March 2001 .
Australian Transport Safety Report No. 166
Report
on the Investigation of Wave Damage to the Passenger Cruise Ship Oriana
in the North Atlantic Ocean on 28 September 2000
Fire On Board the
U.S. Passenger Ferry Columbia,
Chatham Strait, near Juneau, Alaska,
June 6, 2000
Fire on Board
the Netherlands-Registered Passenger Ship Nieuw Amsterdam at Glacier
Bay, Alaska, May 23, 2000
Grounding
Passenger Vessel "NORWEGIAN SKY" Off Île Rouge, St. Lawrence
River, Quebec, 24 September 1999 , Transportation Safety
Board of
Canada
Report
Number M99L0098
www.cruiseresearch.org/MAR.html
Environmental IssuesWhy care? Here's what a crew member wrote in
February 2006: Both RC ships I worked
on (Voyager and Radiance) dragged oil through the waters while their
azipods were messed up, and I don't believe they ever reported it.
Radiance won "Environmental Ship of the year" from RCCL for the same
year I personally witnessed a freaking oil slick while
tendered in Juneau in June 2003. A Passenger's
View of Royal Caribbean's Private Island Pollution and Environmental
Violations and Fines, 1992-2010 Large
Environmental Fines ($100,000+), 1992
- 2010 Violations and
Fines in Alaska, 1999 - 2010 Northwest
Cruiseship Association pulls out of MOU with State of Hawai'i The First Year of
the MOU: Known Violations under Hawai'i's Memoradum of Understanding,
October 2002 - October
2003 The First Year of
the MOU: Known Violations under Washington State's Memoradum of
Understanding, 2004 -- 2 ships account for 3 violations For
environmental reports, see International Centre for
Cruise Reserach, Miscellaneous Reports (Environmental) Organizations
Concerned Abount Cruise Ship Pollution Save
Our Spit (Gold Coast of Australia) Bluewater Network /
Friends of the Earth Campaign
to Safeguard America's Waters Friends
of
Casco Bay KAHEA: The
Hawaiian Environmental Alliance Livable
Oldtown (Key West) Oceana
(Cruise
Ship Pollution Campaign) The Ocean
Conservancy Planeta.Com -- Global Journal of Practical Ecotourism
Reef Relief -- Protect
Living Coral
Labour
Issues
Crewz
Viewz --
Information for and from Crew
International
Commission on
Shipping ICONS Inquiry into Ship Safety:
Ships,
Slaves, and Competition (Full
Report) (Executive
Summary) International
Transport Workers' Federation Flags
of Convenience Campaign North American Maritime
Ministry Association War on Want Sweatships Camapign
Sweatships
Report
(*.pdf)
The Cost of Cruising, Vancouver Observer , April 13, 2010
Getting a Grip on Cruise Ship Pollution - Summary -- Getting a Grip On Cruise Ship Pollution - Full Report (A report by CruiseJunkie from Friends of the Earth)
Cruising without a Bruising: Cruise Tourism and the Maritimes (A report by CruiseJunkie from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
Cruise
Junkie's Testimony Before the US Senate Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and
Security, June 19, 2008
The
Politics of Environmental Activism: A Case Study of the
Cruise
Industry and the Environmental Movement,” Sociological
Research Online , 12:2 (March), 2007
Cruise Junkie's Testimony at
Congressional Hearings on Crimes Against Americans on Cruise Ships,
March 28, 2007
Attack of the Oversized Playpen ,
Briarpatch
Magazine 35:7 (November), pp. 14 -17, 2006Troubled Seas:
Social Activism and the Cruise
Industry , Cruise
Ship Tourism:
Issues, Impacts, Cases (ed. Ross
K. Dowling),
Oxfordshire
,
England
:
CABI Publishing, pp. 377 - 388. 2006
Turning Water
Into
Money: The Economics of the Cruise
Industry , Cruise
Ship Tourism:
Is
sue
s,
Impacts, Cases (ed. Ross K.
Dowling),
Oxfordshire
,
England
:
CABI Publishing, pp. 261 - 269. 2006
Cruise
Ship Blues: A Cruise "Junkie" Exposes the Industry's Darkside ,
Shared Vision Magazine, November 2002 -- VancouverConscious
Choice Magazine, February 2003 -- Chicago ; Whole Life Times, March
2003 -- Southern California; The New Times, July
2003 -- Seattle High Seas, Low
Pay: Working on Cruise Ships (Reprinted from Our Times:
Canada's Independent Labour Magazine, December 2001/January 2002)
Cruising Attitude: How About a Miami or LA Cruise
on Your Next Long Weekend? (Reprinted from Doctor's Review, October
2001)
Jumping Ship: A Cruise Junkie Explains Why
Doctors Should Think Twice Before Booking That Week at Sea
(Reprinted from Doctor’s Review , April 2001
Paradise Lost at Sea: Rethinking Cruise Vacations , Fernwood Books, 2008
Cruise Ship Sqeeze: The New Pirates of the
Seven Seas , New Society Publishers, 2005
Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the
Cruise Industry , New Society Publishers, 2002
Death by Chocolate: What You Must Know
Before Taking a Cruise , Breakwater Books, 2001
I BOYCOTT Carlson Companies (previous owner of
Regent Seven Seas) and Regent Seven Seas Cruises
(bought by Apollo Management; no change of management) (Apollo
also owns Oceania Cruises and has a large stake of NCL)
Read Why:
EDITORIAL: Radisson’s
“Yes I Can Attitude” More
Accurately Is an “I Don’t Care Attitude”
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