Princess Cruises is reshuffling its shoreside leadership structure and creating a new department designed to tighten control over the guest experience and onboard revenue.

A crew member has reached out to Crew Center to report a deeply troubling incident that allegedly happened onboard Margaritaville at Sea Islander on December 23, leaving two crew members dead and three injured. The crew member said the incident took place in the grey water tank while the crew was carrying out their assigned duties. This sort of tank in order to be open, requires a series of procedures due to its gas release including H2S, a highly toxic gas.

Code Oscar was sounded on the Windstar cruise ship Star Breeze after a passenger was reported overboard while the vessel was sailing off the coast of the Marquesas Islands in in French Polynesia. The incident happened during a 14-day Tahiti voyage, and local media reports say the passenger went overboard after an argument with his wife.

A former senior HR manager at P&O Cruises is asking for around £9.7 million in compensation, claiming a fall on the company’s cruise ship Britannia left her unable to work again.

The cruise ship Norwegian Prima drifted away from the pier at Port Canaveral, Florida, on January 18, 2026, after several mooring lines snapped during strong winds.

Norwegian Cruise Line has revealed the name and first details of its fifth Prima Class newbuild, announcing that the ship will be called Norwegian Aura and will become the largest vessel in the NCL fleet when it enters service in 2027. Bookings are now open, with the first sailings scheduled to begin in May 2027.

Guests aboard Princess Cruises’ Island Princess were called to their staterooms for a full headcount after a man overboard alarm was reported while the ship was sailing in the Pacific off Mexico, according to passenger posts on social media.

Tender boat operations on Holland America Line’s ms Noordam ran into trouble at Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea, after a sudden 40-knot squall made conditions unsafe for guests, Facebook page Paul and Carole Love To Travel reported.

A large cruise ship briefly appeared in the background of NASA and SpaceX’s live broadcast as Crew-11’s Dragon descended toward the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, moments before splashdown.

The ship entered the frame during the drogue parachute deployment phase which is part of the spacecraft’s final descent sequence, creating an unusual moment in the otherwise tightly framed recovery coverage as the capsule approached the ocean.

Disney Cruise Line’s newest and largest ship, Disney Adventure, arrived near Freeport, Bahamas, on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, and marked the milestone with a rare at-sea meeting alongside Disney Destiny and Disney Fantasy, giving guests on the two in-service ships a front-row view.