Cruise Bruise Blog
June 22, 2009
June 22, 2009
Father's Day Massive All Out Brawl On Seattle Docked Cruise Ship
The Seattle Police Department, West District reported a massive cruise ship passenger fight around 0138 hours on Sunday, Father's Day, June 21, 2009.
"On June 21st at approximately 1:38 a.m. officers responded to a 911 call of a large disturbance on board a cruise ship that had docked in the 1100 block of Alaskan Way. Officers arrived and saw 100+ people on the dock, some in verbal disturbances. Officers were informed that a fight was still on-going on board the ship. Officers moved to the dock to facilitate clearing the ship, where they observed a small group of subjects blocking the gangway and preventing people from leaving the ship. The officers ordered the group to clear the gangway to allow others to leave the ship, but the subjects refused to comply. Officers were forced to physically move the group out of the way.
While moving the group off the gangway, a female suspect assaulted an officer by jumping on his back, grabbing his throat and scratching him. She was arrested. A second female suspect assaulted another officer, the officer sustaining scratches to her throat from the altercation. The second suspect was also arrested. Both officers treated their wounds at the precinct.
Both suspects were booked into the King County Jail for Investigation of Assault on an Officer.
The original cause of the onboard fight was not definitively determined beyond consistent reports that four females started fighting onboard and the fight escalated from there."
While there are no reports which cruise line or ship was involved, it is apparent from the location of the dock and the hour of the day that an Argosy Cruises' ship was involved, most likely the Spirit Of Seattle.
Spirit Of Seattle, docked near Waterfront Park, at Pier 55, 1101 Alaskan Way in Seattle, Washington, takes dinner, drinking and dancing parties around the harbor on Saturday nights, and holds up to 400 passengers.
None of the major cruise lines' ships were at their terminals at that hour of the day, all having left the harbor around supper time earlier in the evening.
June 22, 2009
Baltimore Politicians Spar On Cruise Ship Share Assault Charges
Mayor Sheila Dixon's chief of staff Demaune A. Millard, 36 and Elizabeth C. Smith, 32, a commissioner on the Baltimore liquor board have accused each other of assault after an argument this month on Spirit Baltimore Inner Harbor Cruises' The Inner Harbor Spirit, formerly the Lady Baltimore.
Smith filed two charges of second-degree assault against Millard with a Baltimore District Court commissioner June 7, 2009 and Millard filed one second-degree assault charge against Smith the next day.
Criminal summonses were issued for both Smith and Millard, and the city Police Department was not called by either party to investigate, according to Anthony J. Guglielmi, a department spokesman.
June 22, 2009
Liberty Of The Seas Canadian Passenger Drowns In Port
Goretti Tak Wai Wong, 62, from Ontario, Canada died after swimming off Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
Mrs Wong, 62, was visiting the Caymans with husband, having arrived aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' Liberty of the Seas.
The cruise ship passenger had been swimming off Royal Palms when she became overly tired. Her husband assisted her back to shore with the help of a passing wave runner but unfortunately she passed out. CPR was administered on shore and medics and police attended the scene.
Mrs Wong was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.
