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Reports say that passengers on the cruise ship Norwegian Jade, a part of the Norwegian Cruise Lines fleet, became ill on a sailing early this year. Passengers reported several shipmates were sickened and the liner was evidently concerned enough to change all buffet areas from self-serve to cafeteria-style. The system reportedly remained in place for the entire cruise. Passengers also reportedly noticed new NCL sanitizing systems, including hand sanitizers in elevators and antibacterial hand spray at the entrance to each…

One fisherman died after another fishing boat rear-ended his boat last month, throwing him into the Cal-Sag Channel in Illinois, reports say. The Orland Park man, whose name was not released,  drowned when the second boat swerved to avoid a log and hit his fishing boat, which was not moving at the time, Oddly, the fisherman thrown into the water could not swim and was not wearing a life jacket, reports say. Identified only as a 41-year-old man from Orland…

A commercial fishing skipper’s decision to make a mayday call moments before the boat sank probably saved the lives of his crew, but also may have cost him his own life. Reports say that Captain Robert Royer suffered a fatal head injury while leaving the 75-foot Northern Belle earlier this month just before it foundered on the Gulf of Alaska 50 miles south of Montague Island. Reportedly, the vessel’s Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon did not activate, so Royer, stayed…

A crew member of a Qatargas time-chartered vessel died from injuries he sustained while boarding a service launch from the ship on which he had been working.  The worker, who had just completed his tour of duty and was leaving the ship to return home, was moving from the ship to a launch to take him ashore. The ship’s gangway was rigged so that the crew would have to jump from the gangway to the second ship’s deck, a distance…