Cruise Bruise Blog
May 1, 2009
May 1, 2009
School Kids Come Home From Cruise With Swine Flu Symptoms
In Trussville, Alabama, the Hewitt-Trussville High School band comprised of 60 teens took a Carnival Cruise to Mexico and just arrived home, sick.
Fifteen of the band students who returned home had mild symptoms, including sore throats and runny noses.
The students, along with 23 chaperones, performed on a Carnival Cruise Lines ship last weekend. They docked in Cozumel Saturday, where most went swimming or snorkeling.
May 1, 2009
Cruise Ship Passenger Jumps Off Ship For $15
Police say James Raynor jumped off a cruise ship when friends dared him to do so on a $15 bet.
Raynor, 18 was aboard the Sun Cruz casino ship yesterday near Port Canaveral when he jumped and then swam to the Jetty Park.
Raynor was not injured and had not been drinking according to police.
The Brevard County Sheriff's Office said that a referral will be sent to the state attorney's office for a possible misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
May 1, 2009
Cruise Ship Crew Member Arrested Entered U.S. Illegally
Sanjit Kumar Rajak from India had been working on a cruise ship when he decided to immigrate to the U.S., illegally. He now faces deportation after being arrested for employing illegal immigrants at his Florida restaurant.
Rajak, owner of Cilantro Indian Restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, was sentenced to three months in prison Monday after he plead guilty to the charges. Rajak has been in jail since January and had already served most of his jail time before the trial.
Investigators determined that Rajak entered the United States in 2002 with false documents that said he was a religious worker. U.S. immigration application policy is clear, if you lie, you fly.
May 1, 2009
Eurodam Passenger Evacuated In Bermuda
It's a long way from anything, once you get there. A woman passenger found out how far it was from home when she became ill while aboard the Holland America Line Eurodam.
The unidentified woman, 85, began having heart problems while she was sailing from Port Everglades, Florida to Ponta Delgada in the Azores on Monday.
The vessel was diverted to the Island at about 2000 hours after the woman showed signs of acute coronary syndrome, according to a Bermuda Maritime Operations spokesman.
A pilot boat received the passenger from the vessel and took her to Ordnance Island, where an ambulance transported her for emergency treatment at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
May 1, 2009
Person Of Interest In Dianne Brimble Case Arrested
Luigi Vitale, one of the persons of interest in the Dianne Brimble case has been charged with money laundering after raids targeting the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang in South Australia.
Luigi Vitale was arrested at his home in the Adelaide suburb of Henley Beach South last week as part of 49 raids across four states.
Police allege more than $100,000 cash was thrown over the rear fence of the house when they arrived.
Steroids, amphetamine and other items were also allegedly seized at the house during the search by crime gangs task force officers.
In an unrelated matter, Mr Pantic also a person of interest in the Dianne Brimble case was sentenced earlier this month in the Adelaide Magistrates Court for importing prohibited bestiality DVDs into Australia. Pantic told investigators the DVDs were "a joke".
May 1, 2009
Lead Achille Lauro Hijacker Released From Prison
The Palestinian man who led the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship was released from an Italian prison.
Youssef Magied al-Molqui left the prison Wednesday and was ordered to leave Italy. He was released early for good behavior after serving 24 years of a 30-year sentence, even though he failed to return to the prison in 2006 after a 12-day furlough and was later arrested in Spain.
Palestinian guerrillas hijacked the Achille Lauro in 1985. The four hijackers shot and killed Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly American Jewish man who was in a wheelchair, and threw his body overboard.
May 1, 2009
Cruise Ship Passengers From Pennsylvania Arrested
Three women from Pennsylvania have been arrested for drug smuggling after the illegal drugs were found in their cruise ship cabin.
The women smuggled the drugs on a repositioning Norwegian Cruise Lines' cruise from New Orleans to Boston via the Caribbean. Over 20 pounds of cocaine were found. Read the story here
