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A cruise passenger faces a criminal charge after police accused him of shoving a bus conductor coming around to check tickets, according to reporting from Cruise News Today.

The alleged incident occurred when a North American cruise passenger skipped out on the $2 bus fare while the ship was docked in Italy. As the bus conductor was coming around for a “spot ticket check,” the passenger allegedly shoved him, grabbed back his passport, and fled from the area.

Police were able to locate the passenger using a combination of nearby security footage and records from the cruise ship. The man was found by local police that same day and was charged with resisting arrest.

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Last month, jokes circulated online surrounding Netflix’s Trainwreck: Poop Cruise and its nightmarish conclusion, however, the streaming platform’s newest cruise-centered documentary is far more chilling.

Amy Bradley Is Missing centers around the 1998 disappearance of 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley, of Virginia. Bradley embarked on a voyage with Royal Caribbean International’s Rhapsody of the Seas. What was meant to be a family trip with Bradley’s parents and her brother to Curaçao, quickly became a nightmare.

Just a few days into the trip, she vanished, leaving little clues behind. The documentary delves into the final hours leading up to her disappearance. Bradley allegedly drank until nearly 4 a.m. and slept on the cabin’s balcony. Though many suspected she must have somehow fallen from her balcony into the sea below, — an accident that affects nearly 20 people annually, according to data from the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) — passengers came forward claiming that they had seen her, tossing a wrench into the theory and raising questions about what truly happened.

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Over 130 passengers were sick with gastrointestinal illnesses on a Royal Caribbean ship that sailed from Los Angeles over the Fourth of July weekend, CNN reported this week.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention said the official number of passengers who were sick was 134, with at least seven members of the crew that were also afflicted. Those who were infected were beset by symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal cramps.

The outbreak happened on Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas and was reported to the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) on July 11. VSP officials are tasked with tracking and reporting gastrointestinal illness outbreaks, including norovirus, on cruise ships.

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An electrical fire caused a power outage on the Celebrity Infinity Monday, causing a delay and forcing the ship to extend its stay in Kusadasi, Turkey.

The fire was quickly extinguished and no injuries have been reported, according to Cruise News Today, an online cruise vlog. The ship remained without power and had no updated for several hours, according to one passenger. The ship canceled the remaining port stops and will remain in Turkey for repairs.

As a result, passengers were given a 50% refund and credit toward a future cruise with the company.

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Authorities have recovered the body of a missing cruise ship passenger after she went missing on a hike last week in Juneau, according to media reporting.

The body of Marites Buenafe, 62, of Kentucky, was found Thursday by an Alaska Army national Guard helicopter crew below the ridge line of the Gold Ridge Trail. Buenafe, a doctor with Uk Healthcare, a series of hospitals and clinics with the University of Kentucky, was reported missing to the Juneau Police Department on July 1 by family members. Her family told authorities that she had gone for a hike that morning and planned to take a tram part of the way up a mountain before walking to Gastineau Peak and Gold Ridge.

She did not return to the cruise ship that was docked in Juneau by its departure time.

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Authorities have recovered the body of a missing cruise passenger after she went missing on a hike last week in Juneau, according to media reporting.

The body of Marites Buenafe, 62, of Kentucky, was found Thursday by an Alaska Army National Guard helicopter crew below the ridge line of the Gold Ridge Trail. Buenafe, a doctor with UK Healthcare, a series of hospitals and clinics with the University of Kentucky, was reported missing to the Juneau Police Department on July 1 by family members. Her family told authorities that she had gone for a hike that morning and planned to take a tram part of the way up a mountain before walking to Gastineau Peak and Gold Ridge.

She did not return to the cruise ship that was docked in Juneau by its departure time.

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Videos and rumors have taken the internet by storm since June 29 when a father jumped overboard from his Disney Cruise after his child.

The incident — which happened as the ship was returning from the Bahamas to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale — has been covered by hundreds of news outlets and has been shared and liked thousands of times over online, but the public has continued to wrack their brains — how did this happen?

The girl, 5, was sitting on a railing on a fourth-floor deck around 11:30 a.m. while her parents played shuffleboard, authorities have since said. The child allegedly slipped backwards through a porthole and plummeted to the ocean below.

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A father went overboard after his daughter fell from the Disney Dream Cruise as it sailed back to Florida from the Bahamas Sunday, according to reporting from various media outlets.

The four-day cruise was sailing back to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale when the child went overboard and her father followed after her. The child allegedly fell from the ship’s “deck 4,” according to media, which is about 20 feet above the waterline. That area has a walkable promenade with a railing and plastic covering meant to block anyone from climbing over.

The man and his child treaded water for about 20 minutes before they were rescued by crew, according to media.

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At least two passengers were left behind after an excursion “went wrong,” involving extreme heat and bus malfunctions, according to reporting from Cruise News Today.

A Norwegian Cruise Line excursion began to “fall apart” after mechanical issues caused a bus delay, said Cruise News’ Doug Parker. The two guests were left behind after a scheduled stop in Germany was cut sort during the excursion. The pair was helped by another cruise ship and was later able to re-board.

Thankfully, no injuries were reported in this incident, however, Leesfield & Partners attorneys knows that accidents and injuries can happen at any time.

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The horrors of a February 2013 Carnival Cruise are being revisited in a new Netflix documentary that dropped this week, and the story is nothing short of a total shipshow.

What was meant to be a four-day roundtrip from Galveston, Texas, to Cozumel, Mexico, turned into at least 4,000 passengers and crew being stranded in the Gulf of Mexico for almost a week after a fire damaged cables powering the Carnival Triumph. The toilets began overflowing and there was sewage dripping down the walls, witnesses can be seen explaining in the documentary, which was released Tuesday.

‘It Got Bad Fast’

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