| dd/mm/yy |
2010 |
Incident |
| 14.3.10 | From a reader: It has been reported elsewhere that a young student has been critically injured in an incident aboard Navigator o/t Seas during a Spring Break cruise. Apparently the student was egged on by his friends to jump onto the net strung across the empty swimming pool. The net gave way and he fell face first into the bottom of the pool sustaining serious head injuries. He was removed from the ship in Cozumel where his family have joined him. It is not known who he is or what his current condition is. | Pax serious injury |
| dd/mm/yy |
2009 |
Incident |
| 21.11.08 | The Nassau Guardian reports two armed men ambushed and robbed a group of 17 tourists on tour in Nassau yesterday. According to police, the visitors were on tour at Earth Village, Dunmore Street, in Chippingham just before 1 p.m. with a tour guide when two men armed with shotguns accosted them. The Bahamian man leading the tour was tied up and the tourists were ordered to the ground and robbed of cash, passports, cell phones, credit cards and personal items, said police. While this group of visitors was being robbed, another group of tourists came on the scene and they too were robbed. Shortly after this incident, a 43-year-old Canadian man visiting downtown Nassau along with his brother had his wallet snatched while walking on Bay Street near Navy Lion Road. Three officers from the Tourism Patrol Unit gave chase and arrested the 49-year-old man police suspect was responsible for the theft. | Pax robbed onshore |
| 12.8.09 | Kathimerini (Greece) reports that six people on board the ship, which docked in Piraeus, have been confined to their cabins after testing positive for swine flu. Three are crew members and the other three passengers. | Swine flu |
| 24.6.09 | PR-Inside reports two women (58-year old American and 34-year-old Italian) were quaratined during a port call in Barcelona; both tested positive for swine flu. The women will remain on the ship and it will leave as scheduled Wednesday night for Palma, on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. There doctors will examine them again. The cruise ship began its trip in Italy and stopped off in France before arriving in Barcelona. | Passengers quarantined |
| dd/mm/yy |
2008 |
Incident |
| 15.12.08 | Posted at Cruising
Talk: So
much for the saying about lightening not striking twice... Earlier in
the year, as we documented here
on CruisingTalk, Navigator o/t Seas suffered a problem with one of her
stabilizers on her Transatlantic crossing. The offending article was
removed at Cascais, Portugal upon instruction from the Portugese
authorities after she arrived in Lisbon. Well the other stabilizer was
removed on
December 15. No word as to
the reason for the second 'amputation', but she is expected to receive
a new set of fins when she is in dry dock at the end of January 2009. |
Stabilizer removed |
| 23.10.08 |
Cruising
Talk reports: As
reported elsewhere, Navigator o/t Seas was forced to abandon docking in
Sardinia after freak weather caused a tour bus to overturn on the quay,
Navigator's ropes snapped & her gangway dropped into the sea. The
captain is reported to have taken the decision to abandon the port call
and return out to sea. No injuries reported other than the driver of
the tour bus, but Navigator has sustained minor damage. |
Docking abandoned |
| 23.4.08 |
A poster
at Cruise Critic writes that the ship is stuck in Lisbon with a
problem with a stabilizer. The ship was initially anchored in the Tagis
River but was later moved to a berth in port. According to the
discussion thread, the ship is not permitted to leave Portugal until
the problem is fixed and apparently the ship willl go to Cascais for
repairs (the stabilizer fin is apparently going to be cut off/removed).
The next two port calls (Cadiz and Malaga) have been cancelled and
there is some concern as to whether the ship will make it Barcelona on
Saturday as is scheduled. The ship also skipped its scheduled call at
Azores which means the only port calls on the transatlantic cruise were
Bermuda and Lisbon. UPDATE: The
"repairs" in Cascais involved cutting off both aft stabilizers. The
ship then left for Barcelona and arrived Friday night. As compensation
for missing the three ports and being stuck in Lisbon passengers were
given a 20% credit (based on what they paid for their cruise) to be
used toward a future cruise. |
Stabilizer problems -- Ports cancelled |
| 31.1.08 |
A 29 year old Jamaica crew members was arrested in Belize today. Ship security officers found the crew member him with a parcel of white powder believed to be cocaine taped to the inside of his thighs. The ship was 5 miles out of Belize City - but they figured he had picked up the drugs when he came onshore, so they called the CIB Office in Belize City. The crew member was arrested and the powder was sent for testing. And while it looked like cocaine and was concealed like cocaine, it was not. A test showed that it was just non-narcotic white powder. But still, police believe the man had bought what he thought was cocaine - which is still an offence - but not nearly as serious as trafficking cocaine. He was charged with the rarely used offence: "supplying a substance other than controlled drugs." | Non-drug drug bust |
| dd/mm/yy |
2007 and earlier |
Incident |
| 29.3.06 |
While docked at St. Maarten, a crew member jumped overboard
from one of the crew decks. He quickly climbed up a ladder on the pier
and started to walk briskly toward shore. Local authorities caught up
with him quickly and handcuffed him. They turned him over ship security
while drug sniffing dogs were brought aboard. Before the ship departed
the crew member was handed over to St. Maarten authorities. According
to other crew members, the man was rumored to be carrying drugs. |
Drug bust |
| dd/mm/yy |
Outbreaks |
| 18.5.10 |
A passenger writes: My wife and I were on the ship from 5-6-10 to 5-18-10 and we both became ill after our stop in Cairo. I am upset because we were told by a crew member that "Oh, when we heard we were going to stop in Cairo again we knew we were going to be busy." S/he also said that most of the people who went on the "Pyramids and Nile Cruise" excursion (which we did) became ill from eating at the restaurant they (RCCL) chose. It upsets me that we relied on them to bring us to a safe place to eat and they did not warn us that people got sick on the last excursion to Cairo.
Is it standard compensation for them to just give a credit for the day(s) you are quarantined? They are offering to give my wife a credit for the one day she was officially quarantined. (We were both sick for at least 4-5 days, but only my wife filled out the forms in the infirmary). |