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A woman attending a Christian festival in Oshkosk, WI, died recently after plunging about 45 feet from an amusement ride. The incident occurred at the Lifest when the Air Glory ride — a ride whose mechanism is similar to bungee-jumping – reportedly failed and the woman fell to the ground. Lifest is an annual Christian music festival that also features rides and sports. Reports say two people went up in the ride; when the workers pulled the release apparently a…

Reports say a cruise passenger from the Sea Princess, a Princess Cruises liner, died in Tortola, British Virgin Islands earlier this year. The man was reportedly pulled out of the sea in the area of Cane Garden Bay beach. The man, who was reportedly in his 50´s, was unconscious when discovered. Emergency workers resuscitated him, but he was mostly not breathing on his own. He also evidently had a weak pulse. He was transported to a hospital, but about 90…

Reports say hundreds of people were evacuated from a Port Everglades cruise terminal after a customs agent stopped a man with a suspicious liquid that reports say caused the agent to become ill. The man was initially held on a charge of marijuana possession, since he was also was found with that drug in his possession. The Broward Sheriff’s Office along with US Customs was checking passengers in the attempt to find subjects of arrest warrants. As passengers disembarked from…

Reports say Marblehead-based Rockmore Co. Inc., which operates the vessels Hannah Glover and Rockmore, were fined by prosecutors for knowingly dumping untreated sewage from the boats toilets into North Shore waters. The Hannah Glover evidently offers dinner cruises, sightseeing trips, and ferry service. The Rockmore is a restaurant boat reportedly moored in Salem Harbor. Under an agreement reached with federal prosecutors, the company reportedly agreed to plead guilty to two counts of violating federal law, and pay a $225,000 fine…

Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria cruise liner reportedly had 30 people quarantined out of the 2000 crew and passengers aboard a trans-Atlantic sailing early in 2010. The report of illness had had been erroneously been reported to be severe enough that the ship was nearly turned away from its landing at the New York harbor with complaints of a widespread illness onboard. Reports published in Britain as the ship was heading toward the United States had suggested the ship would not…