2014 Cruise Ship Accidents

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2014 cruise ship accidents. On September 22 2014 after leaving homeport Venice Italy Sept 21 on 7-day Eastern Mediterranean Greek Isles cruise the vessel encountered rough weather in the Mediterranean Sea with tornado-force winds exceeding 100 mph 165 kph. Ward Line 138 deaths and Yarmouth Cruise Lines 90 deaths Cruise Line Statistics by Ship Name. March 31 Carnival Corporation 6000 passengers still at sea during pandemic See Raw Story.

The 6825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 27 kilometres 17 mi north of Byeongpungdo at 0858 KST 2358 UTC. In the period from 1988 to 2014 only eleven incidents were associated with large cruise lines. By mid-2014 insured losses for the disaster had risen to about 2 billion.

Celebrity Cruise Lines is the fancy little sister cruise line to RCCL. Fact is that in only 1 year period Oct 2007 through Oct 2008 the FBI received from Carnival Cruise Lines alone a total of 93 reports on sex-related crimes on cruise ships. Former captain of the Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino speaks with reporters after being aboard the ship with the team of experts inspecting the wreck on February 27 2014 in Isola del Giglio.

More on This Story Cruise disaster. Cruise ship safety is in fact excellent with only 16 fatalities out of more than 100 million passengers worldwide for the years 2005 to 2012 Carne 2012. According to a report from the BBC Saga Cruises Sapphire cruise liner was left stranded off the Isle of Mull with 1008 passengers and crew aboard after June 2 2014 According to a report from the BBC Saga Cruises Sapphire cruise liner was left stranded off the Isle of Mull with 1008 passengers and crew aboard after an electrical fire broke out over the.

663 injuries 627 women were reported. Standouts are Costa 3 incidents 35 deaths Carnival 22 incidents 71 deaths Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines with 20 incidents and 23 deaths plus two cruise lines with only a single incident resulting in many deaths. 17 miles off Gwanmae IslandSouth Korea Incident.

In 2012 30 people were killed in the costliest man-made disaster of that year when the Costa Concordia cruise ship carrying 4200 passengers went aground off the coast of Italy causing 515 million in insured damages losses when it occurred. As of May 6 2014 264 are confirmed dead and 38 people are still missing. The ship was eventually refloated in July 2014 and taken to Genoa where the scrapping operation is expected to take two years.