A British holidaymaker was rushed to hospital after she suffered a fall on a cruise ship and hit her head on the deck. The ship was moving through waters off Gallipoli (Gelibolu), Canakkale Province, north-western Turkey when the incident occurred on 5th September. The Costa Venezia - which is more…
Spanish search and rescue are looking for a woman who was seen falling from a cruise ship into the sea around 75 miles from Majorca at around 2am on Sunday. Spain's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society is still looking for the woman with the help of two helicopters and a…
A survivor of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in 2012 has received nearly GBP 80,000 in compensation for ‘post-shipwreck stress’. The Costa Concordia cruise ship struck an underwater rock, capsized, and sank off Giglio Island near the coast of Tuscany on 13th January 2012. The Court of Genoa has…
The Netherlands Coastguard has called off a wide-scale search for an elderly man who fell overboard from a cruise ship after determining the chances of him surviving the 85-foot fall and choppy seas were nil. The man, reportedly in his 80s, fell from a height of 26 metres (85 feet)…
This Italian cruise ship officer has disappeared in mysterious circumstances while docked in Denmark. A search was launched for third officer Alessio Gaspari, 25, after his family in the town of Ortona in the Italian province of Chieti reported him as missing when he failed to return home after the…
